3 Feb 2012 - 4 Feb 2012 @ 8pm
An Instinct for Kindness
In November 2010, Chris Larner accompanied his chronically ill ex-wife to Switzerland's Dignitas clinic. He came home with an empty wheelchair and a story to tell. In a candid, poignant and sometimes comic performance, Chris explores both the profound personal implications and the wider ethical considerations of the contentious issue of assisted dying. Winner of an Edinburgh Fringe First in 2011.
Tickets: £12/£10 Buy Online
7 Feb 2012 - 11 Feb 2012 @ 8pm
When You Cure Me
by Jack Thorne
Rachel and Peter are 17 and in love. Then Rachel gets ill. She doesn't want Alice to pretend she's her best friend. The only person she wants is Peter, but Peter doesn't know what he wants. New Hull company Middle Child presents this moving play by Jack Thorne (The Fades, Skins) Originally directed at The Bush Theatre by Hull Truck's founder Mike Bradwell.
Tickets: £10/£8 Buy Online
14 Feb 2012 - 18 Feb 2012 @ 8pm Matinees Wed & Fri @ 1.30pm
DNA
Written by Dennis Kelly
Directed and Designed by Anthony Banks (National Theatre)
A group of teenagers do something bad, really bad, then panic and cover the whole thing up. But when they find that the cover-up unites them and brings harmony to their otherwise fractious lives, where's the incentive to put things right?
Starring James Alexandrou (Eastenders)
Tickets: £15/£10 Buy Online
22 Feb 2012 @ 6pm
A Play, a Pie and a Pint - You Can’t Choose Your Mother
by Dave Speck
A young teacher embarks on a journey of self-discovery by tracking down his birth mother, but his world is thrown into turmoil when he finds she is a prostitute and a schizophrenic. As their relationship develops he suffers an identity crisis and turns to drink and drugs, which puts his wedding in jeopardy.
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28 Feb 2012 - 29 Feb 2012 @ 8pm
Going Dark
Fuel presents Sound&Fury's Going Dark
Written by Hattie Naylor in collaboration with Sound&Fury
Max works as the narrator at the city's Planetarium. When his own life takes an unexpected turn, he discovers that understanding the universe requires a different kind of vision. The Studio will be transformed using lighting and sound technology reawakening our wonder at the cosmos.
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2 Mar 2012 - 3 Mar 2012 @ 8pm
Way Out West
The Future is Unwritten
Two men walk into a pub - and then it stops being normal... Pints are drunk and as the alcohol kicks in they find themselves lurching towards a distinct possibility that they are Laurel and Hardy reincarnated. Funny, melancholic, puzzling, it's Laurel and Hardy meets Samuel Beckett...sort of
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8 Mar 2012 - 9 Mar 2012 @ 8pm
Optimism
Uncanny Theatre
A twisted tale of desire and self worth told through the eyes of an idiot. Blending dark clowning with multimedia and unusual physicality, Optimism is both brutal and dreamlike, presenting a constant stream of unlikely characters, peculiar situations and striking visuals.
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14 Mar 2012 @ 6pm
A Play, a Pie and a Pint - Little Black Dress
This new play by award-winning Hull writer Gill Adams is set in the back room of 'The Women Warriors' charity shop, and is partly inspired by the incredible history - and undeniable power - of one of the most iconic fashion items of all time... the little black dress.
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17 Mar 2012 @ 8pm
Mike Bradwell and the Original Truckers
It was forty years ago today...In March 1972 Hull Truck opened their first show Children of the Lost Planet at the Gulbenkian Theatre, University of Hull. They lived on the dole in Coltman Street, their office was the phone box outside and their plays were frequently banned. Forty years on director Mike Bradwell and original members of the company reunite for One Night Only to present an evening of scenes, songs and stories from the pioneer years.
Tickets: £15 Buy Online
22 Mar 2012 - 24 Mar 2012 @ 8pm
Thirsty
The Paper Birds
Based on our nation's love affair with alcohol, Thirsty weaves together real stories, memories and booze-based confessions, collected from a 'drunken hotline' and an online questionnaire. Fusing live music, verbatim text and stunning physical theatre, Paper Birds explore the stories and social repercussions of lost memories and gained traumas, bruised knees, uncontrollable laughter and sore heads.
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28 Mar 2012 @ 8pm
Benchmarks. I
Park Bench Theatre
The first in an exciting new series of innovative, freshly-spun performances curated and directed by award winning local Park Bench, which seeks to nurture, develop and build relationships with regional emerging artists. A playful exploration of new writing and collaborative response to revolution and the modern age of austerity. Come and explore the unexpected and extraordinary that is rooted deep within our community.
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30 Mar 2012 - 31 Mar 2012 @ 8pm
The Fantasist's Waltz
Tounge Tied
A haunting modern fairy tale of an ordinary man's extraordinary fight for survival in a world that has seemingly forgotten him. Set in a world of misguided passions The Fantasist's Waltz pulses with a live original score and inventive physical theatre. York based Tongue Tied create collaborative new theatrical works through physically driven storytelling.
Tickets: £12/£10 Buy Online
3 Apr 2012 @ 8pm
Monkey Poet: Welcome
Think Bill Hicks meets Mark Thomas, with a dash of rhyme thrown in, and you've got Monkey Poet. Winner of seven fringe awards from festivals across the globe, Monkey Poet is the pseudonym of Matt Panesh and his special brand of stand-up poetry. Here he presents a double bill of critically acclaimed shows; Welcome...to Afghanistan, a play adapted from Lt. Greenwood's memoir published in 1844 and Welcome...to the UK; satiric stand-up in rhyme.
Tickets: £12 Buy Online
4 Apr 2012 @ 6pm
A Play, a Pie and a Pint - Cobblers
by Mark Walmsley
During the anti-social riots of 2011, an old man's long standing shop business is broken into and vandalised. The old man relies on his British Bulldog no nonsense spirit and tries to do the right thing by protecting his property and catches one of the rioters. Mark Walmsley is a member of Hull Truck's playwrights forum.
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7 Apr 2012 @ 8pm
Laurence Clark: Health Hazard
On a mission to help Obama sell the benefits of free healthcare to the American people Health Hazard! shows acclaimed comic Laurence Clark at his very best featuring bizarre incidents and astonishing characters. In February Laurence Clark will be the subject of the BBC1 documentary Disabled Parents? You're Having a Laugh! which follows him and his wife Adele through the ups and downs of having their second child.
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18 Apr 2012 - 21 Apr 2012 @ 8pm, matinee Sat 2.30pm
Blue Remembered Hills
by Dennis Potter
Hull Playgoers
A summer afternoon, 1943. Seven young children play the all-consuming games of childhood. But their actions are shaped by the casual cruelties of the adults around them and the never far away realities of a world at war. This is the powerful stage adaptation of Potter's unforgettable 1979 television play.
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23 Apr 2012 - 24 Apr 2012 @ 8pm
Fever Pitch
The Future is Unwritten
This hugely successful play, adapted from the best selling book by Nick Hornby, is back on stage after ten years. Digging deep into the mind of an obsessed football fan this is Hornby's story of his Arsenal fixation, as well as a tale of family, football, class, identity and joy.
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25 Apr 2012 - 28 Apr 2012 @ 8pm, Matinee Sat @ 2.30pm
A Foreign Country
Other Lives
New Year's Eve and terminally ill Tobias Bielby is not in a celebratory mood. As a Humberside journalist with a nose for a story he caught the eye of London tabloids, who enticed him with a great salary and celebrity contacts. As the end approaches, he is visited by some extraordinary characters who remind him that there were more truths and laughs than he ever realised.
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30 Apr 2012 @ 8pm
You Know Me and Broken
Wayne Sables Project
You Know Me - A woman is trapped in a room containing secrets hidden within her past. Broken - Two friends revisit their hidden pasts, clasping onto forgotten memories. Currently artists in residence at The Barnsley Civic, Wayne Sables Project are a dance theatre and film company creating work with a strong social message that is uniquely personal.
Tickets: £12/£10 Buy Online
