Venue: Studio
Date: Wed 22 Feb - Sat 03 Mar
Time: 7.45pm with a 2.00pm matinee (Sat 3 Mar)
Produced by: Old Bomb Theatre
Written by: Jim Cartwright
Reviews
Tue 28 Feb 2012
Written by Charles Hutchinson, The Press
ON Thursday, your reviewer went to Bed, then went to bed. I slept well, save for a strange dream about our hen losing all her feathers when jumping from...
Thu 23 Feb 2012
Written by Sue Casson, What's On Stage
In Jim Cartwright’s surreal whirl through the rhythm of a single night, eight characters in an enormous bed share a combination of sleep, waking, memories, dreams, and nightmares.
In Jim Cartwright’s extraordinary play about sleep, insomnia and growing old, eight elderly characters relive their lives and evoke their dreams. Old Bomb, the theatre company behind recent productions of Pinteresque, Cigarettes and Chocolate and Waiting for Godot, bring you another intimate and atmospheric show, complete with specially composed music and a very large bed...
‘The sheer exuberance and beauty of the writing and the piece’s urgent theatricality are difficult to describe… Cartwright (Two, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice) is a true original.’
- City Limits
The cast and creative team of Bed will take part in an after show debate on Wed 29 Feb along with Charles Hutchinson of The York Press, British Future’s Matthew Rhodes and Professor Matthew Festenstein for more details of this exciting, free event please click here.
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Fri 20 Jan 2012
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