Following the highly successful tour of Up 'n' Under: The Welsh Tour in 2011, Black RAT Productions are back at Beaufort Theatre, Ebbw Vale on Wednesday 24th October with Tim Firth's Laurence Olivier Award nominated comedy Neville's Island. When four out-of-condition, middle-aged businessmen from Wales are sent off on a team building exercise in the Lake District they become the first people ever to get shipwrecked on an island on Derwentwater. Bound in fog, menaced by wildlife and cut off from the world with only a single cold sausage between them, tempers soon fray and what should have been a bonding process for Gordon, Angus, Roy and Neville turns into a muddy, bloody fight for survival. Wickedly funny with some naughty one-liners, Neville’s Island infuses comedy with genuine drama as it pokes fun at management, masculinity and middle-age. ‘Neville's Island is a comedy where an audience get to watch actors REALLY suffer for their art. During the course of the story four grown men are half-drowned, beaten up, covered in mud, forced to eat unmentionable things and menaced by carnivores. Plus they endure the worst horror of all for men together in the open - having to change out of wet things under quite small towels! To take this play on at all requires bravery. To take it on tour requires Herculean strength! God speed the boys of Black RAT.’ Tim Firth STARRING Keiron Self (My Family, High Hopes) as ANGUS Jams Thomas (Being Human, Stella, Belonging) as NEVILLE Gareth Bale (Indian Doctor, Y Pris, High Hopes) as GORDON Peter Brad-Leigh (Dinnerladies by Victoria Wood) as ROY Tickets are on sale for Neville’s Island at Beaufort Theatre, Ebbw Vale on Wednesday 24th November at 7.30pm now, priced at £10 / £8 Early Bird (Book before 28th Sept) For bookings and further information, please contact the Box Office today on 01495 355800 or visit www.blaenaugwentvenues.com A Black RAT Productions and Blackwood Miners' Institute co-production in association with RCT Theatres and supported by Arts Council Wales. |
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012 |
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