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Wed 28 & Thu 29 Oct • 7:30pm • Admission £15 • Professional Theatre

Presented by Live Wire Theatre

Loosely based on Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale – an Aesop Fable style story about anthropomorphic chickens – Dougie Blaxland’s Chauntecleer & Pertlotte – subtitled.

‘A Beasty Babel Fable’  tells the quaint but utterly absurd story of how a jilted hen exacts eye-watering revenge on a faithless cockerel.

Delivered in language combining elements of Chaucer with the ‘nonsensical gobbledy-gook’ pioneered by comedy greats Stanley Unwin and Kenneth Williams, Chauntecleer & Pertlotte has been described as ‘comedic and literary gold’.

With just two actors playing all 24 of the diverse human and animal characters that populate Blaxland’s outlandish ‘farmy-warmy’ world Chauntecleer and Pertlotte is a ribbald romp of a play performed at ‘breakneck speed’.

Winner of Best New Play at the Brighton Festival, Chauntecleer & Pertelotte has also been nominated for the Scotsman Fringe First Award and the Popcorn New Writing Award at the Edinburgh Festival.

Sat 31 Oct • 7.30pm • Full £15 Concs £13 • Professional Theatre

Presented by Lumenis Theatre

Maurice and Hermia a migrant married couple make their home in the UK. Maurice is very proud of working as a care worker in an elderly care-home. Hermia, instead, struggles with motherhood and caring for their two-year-old alone but has found a friend in Darya, a woman in her late 70s, a resident of the care home also a migrant.

When during a period of global crisis Maurice is forced to choose between his family and having to live in the care home where he works, he tries to keep his marriage and the relationship with his two-year old son afloat.  Four years later, with further restrictions looming for migrant care workers, Maurice and Hermia take stock of their life choices.

A passionate play about a family, and their choices during a global crisis inspired by real life testimonies voices the human stories behind migration when the world is against them.

Wed 11 – Sat 14 Nov • 7.30pm • Full £15 Concs £12 • Professional Theatre

“You asked me for a ghost story. Here is one.”

1816. The year without a summer.

The sun has vanished, the rain will not stop, and five young writers are trapped inside Villa Diodati: Mary Godwin, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori. To pass the storm-dark nights, Byron proposes a ghost story competition, and Mary begins to write the story that will become Frankenstein.

As the storm outside rages, Mary’s imagination brings Victor Frankenstein and his abandoned Creature to life, blurring the line between the Villa and Mary’s created world…

As WhimsiCo’s second foray into gothic literature, Mary’s Frankenstein is an imaginative new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, interweaving the legendary summer of 1816 with the full story of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature he cannot bear to love. An exciting and inciteful new take on the classic novel, about grief, ambition, artistic creation, and the terrible responsibility of bringing something to life.