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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14 Mar 2010 @ 7.30pm
Tom Wrigglesworth
Direct from a sell-out run at the Edinburgh festival. Having witnessed a Virgin Train Manager abusing his position (to the extent that Hitler would've watched admiringly and taken notes), Tom writes to Richard Branson. about one random act of kindness which caused good to triumph over evil. A cross between Sideshow Bob and Mark Thomas, Join Tom as he recounts his A hilarious and heartwarming true story involving the world’s biggest jobsworth, his fellow passengers, and a brown paper bag from the onboard canteen.
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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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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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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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25 Apr 2010 @ 7.30pm
The Coal Porters
The Coal Porters are a dynamic bluegrass combo with a repertoire that ranges from their own original material to an exploration of the music of the Byrds, the Burritos and Bob Dylan. Formed a decade ago in Los Angeles by ex Long Ryder and Dylan historian Sid Griffin, this indie band turned acoustic act with attitude are now firmly established as one of the best live bands in the UK.
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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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5 May 2010 @ 8pm
Extra-Ordinary: David Toole and Lucy Hind
David Toole, acclaimed for his work as an actor and dancer on stage and screen. His credits are numerous, his critics adoring, his biggest fan about to partner him in an extraordinary duet. How will naïve South African Lucy Hind fare? How will she contain herself in the presence of her idol? A most extraordinary journey of self-discovery for them both awaits, in this incredibly funny, moving and at times soberingly trenchant dance piece.
A duet, written, directed and performed by David Toole and Lucy Hind, one with no legs, one with no clue.
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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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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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5 Jun 2010 @ 11.30am for 5-7 year olds & 2pm for 7-12 year olds.
Truck tales: Space
Out…out…out… in the depths of space…space…space…three storytellers, a pig, a mosquito and Bonkers the Penguin have come with one mission: to read stories, play games, tell jokes and rescue their friend Cloth Frog from the terrible trumping three-eyed space beast! Can you help…help…help? Join the mission and find out.
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30 Jun 2010 @ 8pm
Humber Mouth festival: Roy Hattersley
In Search of England is an unabashed celebration of landscape and life, history, humour and habits. It has the eloquence and fervour of an unapologetic Englishman.
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1 Jul 2010 @ 8pm
Humber Mouth Festival: Tim Dee
Tim Dee maps his observations and encounters tracking birds over four decades – well-known and bizarre, flying free, in the nest, in his hand as he rings them, or dead and stuffed on his mantelpiece – from northern Shetland to south-west England via downtown Los Angeles and a tobacco farm in southern Zambia.
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2 Jul 2010 - 3 Jul 2010 @ 8pm
Write To Speak presents Larkin Night
Taking place across two evenings, Write to Speak will be hosting a special event to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Philip Larkin's death. Featuring special guests, these nights will offer a wry look at Larkin's work and legacy, as well as exploring his relationship with Hull.
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7 Jul 2010 @ 8pm
Humber Mouth Festival: Paul Murdin
Paul Murdin is an internationally renowned astronomer and fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and tonight he talks about the big discoveries that unlocked the hidden secrets of the universe.
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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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11 Jul 2010 @ 2.30pm
Humber Mouth Festival: Roger McGough
Miracle birth of a new collection and an afternoon of poems to amaze and delight!
McGough wrestles with mortality, seeks love in the launderette, perspires in the Foreign Legion, snaps Henri Cartier Bresson in Liverpool and jives in Macca’s trousers. He shares the pain of Lord Godiva and Mr Nightingale, considers his Final Poem and shakes a fist at Alzheimer’s. Addresses, elegies, prayers and ever-perceptive playfulness make this a must-go.
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15 Jul 2010 @ 5pm
Materclass with Alan Barnes
An opportunity to hear one of Britain’s most renowned and well-loved saxophonists discuss saxophone technique and his life in jazz.
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17 Jul 2010 @ 5.30pm
Abram Wilson Group Life Paintings
New Orleans native turned London resident, Abram Wilson is an award-winning trumpeter, vocalist and composer whose infectious warmth and electric stage presence spring directly from his roots in the birthplace of jazz.
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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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