Theatre @ ACW
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Cranked Anvil present...
14 September 2017
A double-bill of plays about Sunderland AFC
Cornered by Jeff Brown
On 24th of March 1985, a dream comes true for a young football player from Sunderland. Just 18 years old, Dave Corner runs out onto the hallowed Wembley turf, to play in a cup final for his beloved home team. Less than 90 minutes later, a slip up on the pitch turns the dream into his worst nightmare – from which his pride, his physical safety, and ultimately his career, never recovers.
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Most Wanted in association with LittleMighty present...
12 October 2017
A celebration of the men Eve Steele has known, loved and wanted to punch in the face.
Life-long thief James Joseph Patrick Keogh is a force to be reckoned with. This is the story of his extraordinary journey, from the womb to the tomb - written and performed by a woman.
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Mad Alice Theatre Company present...
19 October 2017
Set in the 1970’s this brand new show is about an intelligent, happy little girl Belinda, who loves life, her two brothers and stealing The Priest’s biscuits with her best friend Angela. But her brothers are not walking properly and when she opens ‘the drawer she must never open’ her world is cataclysmically blown apart…..
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02 November 2017
by Sian Armstrong
Stupid’s world has been turned upside down. Everything is broken. She has a theory, a theory to fix it – relatively speaking. Come and join her in a quest to find the answers, solve the problems, to look out at the world as it really is – perhaps then we can find some perspective.
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Dyad Productions present...
09 November 2017
From the creators of Dalloway, Austen’s Women, I, Elizabeth, The Unremarkable Death of Marilyn Monroe and Christmas Gothic…
Struggling to think, live and love beyond the stifling expectations of duty, class and convention, governess Jane Eyre and Master Edward Rochester take a dark journey towards sensual and intellectual liberation. Told through Jane’s eyes, English literature’s most celebrated autobiographical novel shocked the Victorians, and Charlotte Brontë’s gothic subversion of fairy-tale romance is now distilled for the stage – under its full title – by writer/director Elton Townend Jones. Performer Rebecca Vaughan embodies everywoman Jane – and several other characters – in this intimate study of love’s realities.
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30 November 2017
Strap in for the Captain and Raoul’s playfully anarchic rollercoaster to the darkest cornersof the grotto where the mould festers under the tree.
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06 December 2017 - 10 December 2017
A glittering, snowy tale about a little lost bear and a brave little girl
Lily lives with Grandpa in a pretty little cottage somewhere in the countryside. There are just two more sleeps until Christmas and it’s snowing already!
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Adam Z. Robinson in association with LittleMighty present...
14 December 2017
Legend has it that many years ago a book of terrifying tales was found. Now, you are invited to discover the secrets of The Book of Darkness & Light… If you dare!
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