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NEW GTC 2010/2011 SEASON ANNOUNCED!

GTC are delighted to announce their brand new season commencing in September - and it really is a season for everyone...

 

Monday 20th to Saturday 25th September

"HAVE YOU HEARD THE ONE..?"

by Bill Rodgers

Fresh from his success directing our sell-out smash "Strictly Flamenco", professional actor/director Bill Rodgers returns to the Old Nick with a play about you - penned by himself.

Originally a one-man show, this gently comic drama is a verbatim piece set in a Northern working men's club, where bustling club life masks the personal stories, some funny, some tragic, of the regulars.  Held together by the Northern Comic performing at the venue, this hugely entertaining piece is teeming with true tales, and promises to be a unique evening's theatre.  Performed at a host of national venues, "Have You Heard The One..?" also toured as far afield as New Zealand to great critical acclaim, which makes its regional debut at the start of our new season definitely an event not to be missed!

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Monday 29th November to Saturday 4th December

"DARKER SHORES"

by Michael Punter

 Christmas 1875; Professor Gabriel Stokes takes up residence on a desolate stretch of the East Sussex coast.  No sooner has he arrived at his strange lodgings than the troubled history of the house comes to the fore, with unexpected and mysterious happenings.  Having enlisted the help of American Spiritualist Tom Beauregard, the two embark on a terrifying journey to discover the truth of what is haunting The Sea House...

GTC Chairman Barry Evans, director of the powerful "Iron", presents the regional premiere of this gripping and shadowy tale of suspense, fresh from its original professional production at London's Hampstead Theatre earlier this year.  A perfectly timed production to offer some Chrstmas chills!

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Monday 28th February to Saturday 5th March

"THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA"

by Frederico Garcia Lorca

 in a version by Rona Munro

When Bernarda's husband dies, she locks all the doors and windows, telling her grown-up daughters to sew and be silent.  "There are eight years of mourning ahead of us.  While it lasts, not even the wind will get into this house".  But locks can't hold back the growing tide of desire...

Classic drama returns to the Old Nick with this powerhouse of Spanish Theatre, reimagined by "Iron" author Munro and produced by Kerry Greenwood, director of the award-winning "September In The Rain".  Transcending its domestic setting, the play explores themes of freedom, censorship and self-expression, and features one of the greatest female roles in theatre literature in the powerful and dominating matriarch Bernarda.  All in all, a production not to be missed!

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Monday 16th to Saturday 21st May

"LIKE A VIRGIN"

by Gordon Steele

This powerful play with music is a romp through the bubble-gum years of teenage life.  Angela and Maxine, both sixteen, attack life with laughter and excitement.  Besotted with Madonna, they truant from school, form a band, attempt to write songs - and live out their adolescent dreams of becoming famous.  Meanwhile, Angela's mother Viv is distraught after her husband leaves her for another woman.  She struggles to come to terms with herself and her daughter.  A volatile but loving relationship develops as the two grow to appreciate each other's different needs; hope, sex, ambition, despair and, most of all, love.

Mandy Kitchen and Richard Bush, who collaborated on our production of "Bouncers" some years ago, return to co-direct another Hull Truck piece, a "rib-achingly hilarious comedy and hanky-soaking tragedy", rounding off our latest season in style.

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