With two weeks down of this year’s VAULT Festival, here’s our top 5 VAULT Festival Picks for Week 3.
Bleach
6th – 10th February
Tyler Everett knows how to take it like a man; he’s made a career out of it. He’s rejected London’s corporate world in favour of screwing his way through the city each night. Up to now he’s been doing pretty well for himself, enjoying a hedonistic life of men, sex and money. But on a fully-booked Saturday night, Tyler’s bubble’s about to burst and he’ll discover the real cost of living in the worlds most exciting city.
A Wake in Progress
6th – 10th February
A young person is dying. But they aren’t going to go out without one final gesture: something that everyone will remember them by. A Wake in Progress uniquely combines scripted scenes and audience interaction to tell a funny yet moving story of love, death and funerals.
Developed over the past year with the support of Interactive theatre stalwarts the Lab Collective (Incoming/Exodus, The ‘Neath) for this world premiere at the VAULT Festival, A Wake in Progress puts you in the driving seat. From casting the actors to the back stories of the characters, every aspect of the show is decided live by that night’s audience, building to a completely new ending written live on the night every night.
The Half
6th – 10th February
Thirty minutes before curtain up, in the half, a female double act meet for the first time in over a decade. Now approaching their 50s in an industry rife with ageism, Cathy and Nell must put their differences aside to perform together once more. Ambition, friendship, motherhood, ageing and mice are all explored in this tragicomedy.
Direct from a sold out run at the 2018 Edinburgh Festival, The Half is the new play from award winning writer and comedian Danielle Ward. Starring British Comedy Award nominee Anna Crilly and Margaret Cabourn-Smith.
Monkey’s Blood
6th – 10th February
Micky always liked puppets and performing. But as a working class lad from the North East, the odds were against him. That didn’t stop him from becoming one of the nation’s darlings though, with the help of his sidekick, a coked up monkey called Colin. But when Micky’s links to the far right emerge, his past threatens to destroy everything. A brand new play about children’s TV, the far right and a foul mouthed monkey.
Kings of Idle Land
6th – 10th February
It was an argument between two teenagers, living just streets apart, which sparked the darkest days in Oldham’s history. Michael and Hammad are not those teenagers.
It’s April 2001, and racial tensions are palpable. Surrounded by a confetti of Carlsberg cans, two young friends are involuntarily falling in love.
Social pressures and curiosity collide in this comedy drama by Conor Hunt. A story about race, love and riots.
