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October 2008
Closer
by Patrick Marber
by Patrick Marber
directed by David Lancaster
London in the 1990s. Over a period of years, Dan, Alice, Anna and
Larry meet, form relationships, change partners and experience
the cruel inequalities of love. This tough - and funny - play
was made into a hugely successful film starring Julia Roberts,
Jude Law, Clive Owen and Natalie Portman. It's a grown-up drama
of love, lust and all the confusions in between.
Archive:
Thurs.
19th to Sat. 21st June, 2008
Looking Back
"I've lost count how many times we've been here, you know. This place has been part of our lives."
A seaside town. Two lovers on a bench. For Martin and Louise, these meetings have been part of a love story that has lasted for fifty years. Looking Back tells the story of this love – its trials and tribulations, its teenage beginnings and its journey into old age.
David Wheatley is a new Leeds playwright, and a talent to watch. This play is gentle, heart-warming – and surprising. A must-see for romantics everywhere.
Week
commencing 21st April, 2008
The Memory of Water
by Shelagh Stephenson
directed by Peter Sandles
This
play has been described in reviews as both gloriously funny and deeply
felt. Using a mixture of sardonic humour, and deep emotion, excellent jokes
give way to festering resentments as three sisters (and their unsatisfactory
men) bicker over their mother’s funeral arrangements. The Memory of
Water skillfully charts the joyous and painful territory of family relationships
with insight and compassion, through hilarity, to sudden glimpses of buried
secrets and aching pain.
Carriageworks main auditorium
Thursday,
31 January, 2008 to Saturday, 2 February, 2008
at 7.30 p.m. with a Saturday matinee at 2.30pm
Alan Bennett's
The Lady in the Van
Published by Faber and Faber
directed by David Lancaster
Miss Shepherd is an unlikely heroine for a play. She is old, smelly, motor-obsessed – and
mad. So why did one celebrated writer and performer let her (and her van) occupy
his garden for 15 years?
Alan Bennett is Leeds’ most famous playwright; this bittersweet story,
based on fact, has all the hallmarks of his unique style. It’s thoughtful,
mysterious, sometimes melancholy and always funny. There’s a mystery,
too. For the lady in the van is a lady with a secret - and that secret has
profound consequences.
Wednesday
17th to Saturday 20th October 2007 at 7.30pm
BEDROOM
FARCE
Three Bedrooms, Four Couples, One Long, Crazy Night
Alan Ayckbourn's
Classic Romp, Directed by Martin Key
Laughter is guaranteed with this classic Alan Ayckbourn romp.
Trevor and Susannah have a problem relationship. They
want to discuss these problems with family and friends.
Unfortunately, they want to do it in the middle of the night. Sparks fly,
other relationships begin to untangle and the result is
a great comedy of middle class life and hang ups.
BBC
REVIEW
Two
by Jim Cartwright, directed by Martin Key
Wednesday,
30 November to Saturday, 3 December 2005 at 7.30 p.m.
This
will be our first production in the new Carriageworks Theatre
The
play is set in a Northern pub owned by a savagely bickering husband
and wife, and all fourteen characters are played by the same two actors.
During the course of the evening, assorted customers pass through, including
a little boy left behind by his father, an event which triggers a movement
towards a fragile reconciliation between the pub couple, as their own
dark tragedy is revealed.
Upstairs at the Carriageworks
£5.00 for all seats, unreserved
To book, ring 0113 224 3801
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Thursday, 2 to Saturday, 4 February, 2006
at 7.30 p.m. with a Saturday Matinee at 2.30 p.m.
A Woman of No Importance
by Oscar Wilde, directed by Gerry Armytage
This tale of family secrets, retribution and forgiveness is laced with
plenty of Wilde's hallmark humour and wit.
Carriageworks
main auditorium
Ticket prices £10.00 Concessions £7.00
Thursday,
27 to Saturday, 29 April, 2006 at 7.30 p.m.
Straight and Narrow
by Jimmie Chinn
directed by Peter Sandles
Shot through with bounteous comic invention, the play concerns the disruption
in the lives of a gay couple,
Bob and Jeff. Can Bob tell his mother that the straight and narrow is
not the life for her favourite little boy?
Carriageworks
main auditorium
Ticket prices £10.00 Concessions £7.00
Wednesday,
21 to Saturday, 24 June, 2006 at 7.30 p.m.
Billy Liar
by Keith Waterhouse
directed by Richard Francis
To Billy Fisher, in 1960, the dimmer his surroundings the more fantastic
are his compensatory daydreams. Neither his family, not his undertaker
employers take kindly to his fantasies; nor do his three girlfriends,
at least two of whom he is engaged to! So Billy wades through a confused
Saturday, as his past lies follow him here, there and everywhere. At
the end of it all, his bang of revolt peters out in an adolescent whimper.
Carriageworks
main auditorium
Ticket prices £10.00 Concessions £7.00
BBC
Review
Wednesday, 18 to Saturday,
21 October, 2006 at 7.30 p.m.
Theatre Suite
written and directed by Martin Key
Theatre
Suite is a brand new collection of short plays. They deal with the highs,
the lows, the ups and downs of that crazy business known as show business.
But these four stories aren't just a first-rate evening in - and about
- the theatre.
They're also the brainchild of Martin Key, a remarkable actor, writer,
director and now the holder of a rare honour. Earlier this year, Martin
was given the Freedom of the Carriageworks Theatre in recognition of his
services to the arts, specifically his drama work with young people.
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