4 Mar 2010 - 27 Mar 2010 @ 7.30pm
April In Paris
Al and Bet are not what you’d call ‘love’s young dream’. Bet’s bored, Al’s at his wits end and they’re stuck in a romance rut! Then out of the blue the passionless pair win a holiday to Paris!
Winner of the 1994 Olivier Comedy of the Year, April in Paris is an irresistible dose of pathos and humour. Not to be missed!
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11 Mar 2010 - 12 Mar 2010 @ 8pm
4.48 Psychosis
Brendan's Boat in association with First Hand Theatre Company present the revival of the National Student Drama Festival’s 2008 award winning production of Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis exclusive for the Hull Truck Theatre audiences.
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19 Mar 2010 - 20 Mar 2010 @ 8pm
A Handful Of Henna
Being dragged by her mother back to the family village thousands of miles away is no fun for 13-year-old Nasreen. In the monsoon rain, not being able to text friends, the mystical power of henna leads to unexpected events. An evocative and enchanting story of homecoming, adventure, fear and joy for a girl and her mother.
Image by Joel Chester Fildes
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26 Mar 2010 - 27 Mar 2010 @ 8pm
Meeting Joe Strummer
Charting the lads attempts to maintain their ‘oath’ to Strummer while living through Thatcherism, paying the bills and maintaining relationships, this passionate punk comedy is about attitude, friendship and celebrity – and a celebration of the man who set the agenda for a generation.
Image credit © Julian Yewdall
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30 Mar 2010 - 1 Apr 2010 @ Tuesday 30 and Wednesday 31 March 10.30am, 1pm and 4pm Thursday 1 April 10.30am ONLY
Charlie and Lola's Best Bestest Play
‘I have this little sister Lola. She is small and very funny…’
Don’t miss everyone’s favourite brother and sister, Charlie and Lola, in their extremely ever so wonderful stage show! The stars of the hit BBC TV series and books by Lauren Child are brought to life by a magical mix of puppets and music.
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3 Apr 2010 @ 11.30am for 5-7 years and 2pm for 7-12 year olds.
Truck Tales: Vergine Gulbenkian
A host of magical and amazing tales from around the world that come to life with every performance! Join celebrated storyteller Vergine Gulbenkian as she weaves story and song together for an experience not to be missed!
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7 Apr 2010 - 10 Apr 2010 @ 8pm
10:18
16 plays in 4 nights!
One flat inhabited by up to three characters.
Do they live there or are they just visiting?
Is the accommodation ‘des res’ or urban squalor?
Each night will provide different answers!
Following on from last year’s successful 10:18 from Hull project, Hull Truck Youth Theatre again present a selection of new plays written by young people aged 10 – 18 from across the city.
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8 Apr 2010 - 10 Apr 2010 @ 7.30pm
Jus' LIke That
‘I got a new car for the wife yesterday…not a bad swap!’
Jus Like That brings Tommy Cooper back to life with all the familiar trademarks – the fez, the laugh and the magic. Jus’ Like That is a hilarious tribute to one of the greatest comedians this country has ever seen.
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15 Apr 2010 - 8 May 2010 @ 7.30pm
Loot
BE SHOCKED ! BE OUTRAGED !
You really don’t know what goes on behind closed doors, and the McLeavy household is no exception!
A classic scandalous black farce that will keep you rooted to your seats from acclaimed writer Joe Orton.
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24 Apr 2010 @ 11.30am for 5-7 year olds & 2pm for 7-12 year olds.
Truck Tales: Going Places
The Gang are going places! Where they’re going not even they know, but you’re coming with them. With the usual combination of stories, jokes, games and mayhem, coming in the morning and to the afternoon, hear all about the adventures of a brave little duck. Help Star the Pig learn how to cross a road and find out where Bonkers the Penguin has been since we last saw him!
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27 Apr 2010 - 1 May 2010 @ 8pm
Whose Life Is It Anyway
Hull Playgoers Society Present...
The Government? The Church? The Medical Profession? or……The Individual?
Ken Harrison has been severely injured in a car crash, is totally paralysed and only kept alive by the miracles of modern medicine. However, his brain is as sharp as ever and he wishes to be discharged from hospital, against the wishes of his doctors, in order to die.
This moving and thought-provoking play engages hearts and minds and fuels a dramatic debate on the value of life.
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2 May 2010 @ 7.30pm
Unknown Pleasures With Peter Hook. Compered by Howard Marks
A show based on his best selling book The Hacienda - How Not To Run A Club, the bass slinging Manchester legend tells the story of the iconic club, New Order, Joy Division and the Madchester scene, from the haze of 80s acid house to the 90s gangs, drugs and corporate greed. A funny and engaging raconteur, Hooky’s personal account of the people – Tony Wilson, Bernard Sumner, Shaun Ryder – and the era is sadder, scarier and stranger than you could imagine.
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21 May 2010 - 22 May 2010 @ 8pm
Hull College Acting Showcase: Hated Nightfall
An imaginative interpretation of the last remaining hours of the Romanoff’s lives is the starting point for Howard Barker’s Hated Nightfall. As the doomed Royal Family in the wake of the Russian revolution barter for survival they are kept hostage by their enemies. But the man in control, Dancer, the former tutor of the Royal children, appearing as both saint and sadist, has been personally invited by Lenin to oversee their execution. However he also has his own agenda.
Hull College BA (Hons) Acting students present their production of Hated Nightfall at Hull Truck: An energetic, mediatised, interpretation of Russia’s loss of its imperial reign.
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27 May 2010 - 19 Jun 2010 @ 7.30pm
20, 000 Leagues Under The Sea
Destruction on earth, war, financial ruin and a crazed maniac on the loose!
Written in 1869, by the father of Science Fiction, Jules Verne’s prophetic novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is brought to life on the Hull Truck stage like never before.
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2 Jun 2010 - 4 Jun 2010 @ TBC
Merge Festival
Hull University students pool their creativity in this three-day celebration of talent. Dip in and out of our broad program of all-day events, from short plays to poetry, from live jazz to burlesque and performance art – all costing just a couple of quid (or less!) to see.
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10 Jun 2010 - 26 Jun 2010 @ 8pm
Kiss Of The Spider Woman
Valentin has been imprisoned for his Marxist revolutionary beliefs. His cellmate is a homosexual window dresser who likes to pass the time by telling stories of his favourite movies. After initially scorning Molina for indulging in escapist fantasies, Valentin gradually succumbs to Molina’s stories and the two fall in love.
But Molina has a secret – he has agreed to inform on Valentin to the prison authorities. Will love prevail behind bars or will Molina betray Valentin?
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24 Jun 2010 - 10 Jul 2010 @ 7.30pm
Cooking With Elvis
Jill and her Mam look after Dad, a former Elvis impersonator now confined to a wheelchair. Jill has started cooking and eating far too much. Mam likes to drink, seduce young men and party !
Before you can say ‘blue suede shoes’, Jill’s world is all shook up by Stuart the dim cakeman – her Mam’s new lover! This dopey hound dog finds himself at the centre of the whole family’s sexual frustrations with outrageous consequences!
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10 Jul 2010 @ 11.30am for 5-7 year olds & 2pm for 7-12 year olds.
Truck Tales: The Locked Out Rabbit & Fearsome and Brave
The Locked Out Rabbit and other stories 11.30am It was Rabbit’s birthday, it was a lovely day, until she got locked out of her house. She’s going to need some help sorting things out before the party, there’ll be lots of participation. Please bring her a birthday card if you can. Fearsome and Brave 2pm Learn how Jack faced up to the beastly boggart in an old English story, hear how a little bird in India outwitted a cruel king and shake as you shape up to the devilish Spindlestone Worm of
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22 Jul 2010 - 7 Aug 2010 @ 7.30pm
Lucky Sods
A hilarious lottery-winning comedy from BAFTA award-winner John Godber!
He likes Rugby, she likes telly.
His favourite number is 8, hers is 42.
He picked the numbers, she bought the lottery ticket.
They sat; they watched; they won.
And now Morris and Jean are millionaires; Lucky Sods!
But is hitting the jackpot all it's cracked up to be...?
A satirical and outrageous comedy about a family who have nothing on Friday and £2 million on Saturday.
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26 Jul 2010 - 27 Jun 2010 @ 8pm
Apples
A Northern Stage and CDomapny of Angels Co-production...
Enter the dazzling, chaotic world of Adam and Eve. They depict a very different Eden. On a council estate where cheap booze flows as freely as the wild experiences of its teenagers, friendships mean everything and families are left behind.
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7 Aug 2010 @ 11.30am for 5-7 year olds and 2pm for 7-12 year olds.
Truck Tales: Food
Jrjhr wrwibbe nrwkj nroerreq eepj – mmnhfh…sorry! Never write with your mouth full. The gang are back with one aim and one aim only. To tell stories and eat. Okay two aims! Tell stories and jokes and eat. Three! Three aims: tell stories, tell jokes and play games and… oh I give up! Come along and hear stories about food and watch as Star has a belly-rumbling competition with the rest of the gang!
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12 Aug 2010 - 14 Aug 2010 @ 10am, 1pm and 4pm
Peppa Pig
Oink Oink - it's Peppa Pig!
This BAFTA award-winning children's show is recreated live on stage featuring beutifully true to life puppets for the first time - from the producers of LzyTown Live! and Roald Dahl's The BFG.
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25 Aug 2010 - 28 Aug 2010 @ 7.30pm
Marat Sade
The persecution and assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as performed by the inmates of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade
Hull Truck’s Youth Theatre take you deep into the mind of Jean Paul Marat.
Not to be missed!
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