A romantic comedy for the Tinder generation
Peacocks,
Lobsters and Us
Stockton ARC Arts Centre
Monday 31st July
2017
Steelworks
Theatre Company’s world premiere of Peacocks, Lobsters & Us premiers
at ARC Stockton Arts Centre on Monday 31st July before heading
to the Edinburgh Festival.
Steelworks Theatre Company was founded by award-winning playwright
and Hull Truck favourite Gordon Steel, writer of Like a Virgin, Dead
Fish, A Kick in the Baubles and Studs.
Steelworks’ inaugural production Grow Up Grandad, had
a sell-out run at ARC, Stockton Arts Centre followed by a highly successful UK tour last year. It has since
been published by Josef Weinberger.
This is Steelworks first venture to the Edinburgh
Festival.
A
Family Affair
Following
her successful playwright father into the business, Director and Choreographer
Rebecca Steel takes Steelworks in a new direction. Pure serendipity has
resulted in Rebecca performing in the same venue as her father, when he won a
Fringe First for his first play, Dead Fish in 1993. The
C Venue, Celtic Lodge on the Royal Mile has fond memories for Rebecca who, as a
small child, would leaflet her father’s show.
Dating,
Mating and Dance
Explosive dance theatre with an
original, quirky insight into life’s most compelling experience –
Love. The mating game becomes the dating dance in this witty and charming
take on boy-meets-girl. In turn comic, tragic and full of heart, we answer the
questions you never dared ask: Should you have sex on the first
date? When is it too soon to leave? Is it a walk of shame or a stride of pride?
How smooth are your chat up lines? Who should make the first move? Does the
‘The One’ exist? We can’t promise to turn you into a femme fatale or
the next Casanova, but we could show you how to dance your way out of your
dating dramas.
Director
Rebecca Steel has worked extensively as a performer for companies
including The Cholmondeley’s and Featherstonehaugh’s, Sweetshop
Revolution and Collision Dance Theatre. She has
choreographed across the country and internationally for The Loons
Theatre Company, New Zealand, creating
specially commissioned original circus-dance-theatre for the Christchurch Arts
Festival; recently she was movement director
for ‘And Yet It Moves’ at the Young Vic.
She is currently Head of Theatre
Studies at Eton College where she has directed numerous
shows including Tamburlaine, Oh What a Lovely War, Tristan and Yseult, Death
of Salesman and Romeo and Juliet.
Tickets:
Peacocks,
Lobsters & Us can be seen at ARC Stockton Arts Centre on Monday 31st July
at 7pm and 8:30pm and in Edinburgh 3rd-19th August
at C Venues. Venue 50, C Cubed, Royal Mile at 19.55.
This performance is priced on a Pay What You Decide
basis, click here to find out more.
Ticket link to book tickets: https://arconline.co.uk/whats-on/theatre-dance-young-people/peacocks-lobsters-us
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