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Baby Love
21 April 2016 Washington Arts Centre
22-25 April 2016 Durham Gala
Theatre Studio
3 & 4 May 2016 South Shields Customs
House Studio
When
Blaydon actors Jonathan and Helen Cash were looking for the right play to
perform and produce they looked no further than their next door neighbour, the
North Eastern playwright and poet, Tom Kelly.
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| Tom Kelly |
Tom
Kelly is well-known throughout the region for his plays and musicals, including
Tom and Catherine, the musical about Tom and Catherine Cookson. His work is
often featured at the Customs House in South Shields, where his most recent,
Geordie The Musical, played to rapturous houses, justly earning a standing
ovation every night. His one-man play, I
Left My Heart In Roker Park also recently played to packed houses, winning a
WOW award, and became a finalist in the Journal Culture Awards.
Tom’s
play, Baby Love, is a two-hander, featuring iconic 60s pop songs and is about a
couple who play the working men’s clubs whilst their relationship is under
strain from the female partner’s increasingly urgent need for a child.
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| Jonathan and Helen Cash |
The
similarity between the onstage and offstage characters only runs so deep, as
Helen and Jonathan are happily married and have a two-year old son, Alexander,
whose picture figures on the publicity material for the play.
Jonathan,
who also directs the play says, “The
script is a joy to perform and the characters have just emerged naturally. And how many people in our position could
have such incredible good fortune as to have the perfect playwright living
right next door?”
Tickets:
Baby
Love opens on 21 April at 7.30 at the Arts Centre, Washington; http://www.artscentrewashington.co.uk/production-details.aspx?id=762
transfers
to the Gala Theatre Studio in Durham from 22 to 25 April at
8.00. http://www.galadurham.co.uk/theatre/index.php?genreID=DRA
The
run ends at the Customs House Studio in South Shields on 3 May at 7.30 and on
4 May at 2.30 and 7.30. http://www.customshouse.co.uk/whats-on/Theatre/2164/baby-love
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