Signals
Saturday 19th
November 2016 Newcastle Alphabetti
Wednesday 23rd
November Barnard Castle The Witham
Saturday 26th November 2016 Cleadon The
Little Theatre
Four
lives entwine in this brand new comedy drama by award winning playwright David
Farn. a play about communication and also a love letter to the brooding Welsh
hills.
Parveen
is at the spearhead of the telecommunications revolution - a young knight armed
only with her ipad and a searing vision of the Future. Her Galahad in this
Quest is Ron, a minicab driver and conman down on his luck and on the run from
the wheelie bins. But they are up against Owen, a fearsome Welsh Dragon. Can
they find a way past Owen via his rebellious daughter Dawn? The hillside where
Owen, Wales’s greatest
poet lives, is threatened by a radio mast, that essential component in modern
communication. Is the telecoms revolution making life better, or does it merely
highlight our own human inability to reach out to one another? Owen suspects
that what passes for communication is largely the meaningless babble of a
society that is obsessed with talking and has lost the capacity to think; the
new Babylon.
Cast & Creatives:
David Farn’s writing
credits include Distant Sun (starring Derek Fowlds) for Open Heart, The
Big Picture for the Customs House, Oranges & Lemons for Cloud 9,
and The Fickle Finger Of Fate for Dreambox. For Theatre Space NE he has
written King Arthur‘s Adventures and Treasure Island. An
experienced actor, he is also performing in the play
Steven Stobbs A Northern
Eastern actor with a Performing Arts Degree, has performed in numerous plays at
The Customs House and other venues; just
completed roles for Cranked Anvil’s Shakespeare
season, recently appeared in ‘Bard Miscast’ at The Middlesborough Theatre and
presently appearing in Theatre Space’s ‘George and the Dragon’ and ‘Romeo and
Juliet at Alnwick Castle.
Kylie Ann Ford, An North
Eastern actor with a BA Hons Degree in Drama; completed further training with
Northumbria Theatre Company and Northern Stage. She has appeared in numerous
productions, including The Customs House Pantomimes and currently rehearsing
for their new musical ‘Dolly Mixtures’.
Danielle
Miller
A North Eastern actor with a Performing
Arts Degree worked on Channel 4’s The Paul O’Grady show for two years. She has
just finished a lead role in ’Kindly Keep it Covered’ in South Shields,
performed at The Theatre by The Lake and at numerous local theatres such as The
Customs House.
Dolores Porretta-Brown had directed,
produced, designed and acted nearly 40 years, in spaces as intimate as The
Bridge Gateshead to the Theatre Royal, both to full houses. Credits include the
opening 2 plays in the Tom Hadaway Festival with Tim Healy and David Whitaker,
Centenary production of Midsummer Night’s
Dream for The Peoples, original director of Dirty Dusting and various other premiered Wood & Waugh plays,
acclaimed production of Twelve Angry Men
and numerous plays in The Customs House New Writing Festivals; she was
Production Co-Ordinator for their pantomime for 12 years. She has just finished
her fifth national tour of ‘Dirty Dusting’ playing Olive with Crissy Rock and
Leah Bell.
Signals premiered at The Customs House before a
small north-east tour.
7.30pm Nov 16, 17
& 19 Alphabetti, Newcastle-on-Tyne tel 0191
2615906 http://www.alphabettitheatre.co.uk/whats-on-menu/whats-on/17-whats-on-articles/80-signals
7.30pm Nov 23 the witham, Barnard Castle tel 01833
631107 http://www.thewitham.org.uk/index.php/whats-on/theatre/item/838-signals_this_is_a_supper_club_event
7.30pm Nov 26 The Little Theatre, Cleadon tel 07850861215 - 0191
4470493 https://littletheatrecleadon.com/2016/11/02/signals-by-david-farn-saturday-26th-november-at-7-30-pm/
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