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Preview: The Grand Gesture, Tobacco Factory
”The Grand Gesture by Deborah McAndrew is quirky, funny and full of youthful energy” Harry Mottram (blogger).
“Bristol theatre goers continue to be spoilt by the School’s productions” Fix Magazine.
“This is a production brimming with ideas” The Public Reviews.
”The Grand Gesture, an entertaining cross that lies somewhere between Mrs Brown’s Boys and a Chekhov short story” Kris Hallett (blogger).
“McAndrew’s script switches between laugh out-loud humour, poignancy and shrewd social commentary with deft skill.” The Stage
“a highly enjoyable production” Stage Talk Magazine
Written by Deborah McAndrew
Directed by Gwenda Hughes
A new reworking of Nikolai Erdman’s classic comic masterpiece The Suicide from the graduating students at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Unemployed Simeon Duff lives with wife Mary and mother-in-law Sadie in a dingy boarding house. Depressed and humiliated by his reliance on his wife’s wages to scrape by, Simeon announces that he is going to kill himself.
Desperate, Mary seeks help from their grubby Rigsby-esque landlord who tries to convince Simeon that life is beautiful and worth clinging on to.
As word spreads among the locals about what Simeon is planning to do, the vultures begin to circle. One by one, a string of grotesque characters, who would not be out of place in The League of Gentlemen, visit Simeon in the hope of turning his suicide into a grand and noble gesture that will further their own particular cause.
Premiered by Northern Broadsides in 2013, The Grand Gesture toured nationally to great critical acclaim. We look forward to seeing the next generation of theatre makers and performers bring it to our Factory Theatre stage.
Thurs 4th June – Sat 13th June
Eves: 7:30pm Sat and Thurs mats: 2.30pm (no mat Thurs 4th)
Tickets: £15 full £10 concession
Age recommendation 14+
Tobacco Factory Theatres
Raleigh Road, Southville, Bristol BS3 1TF
Box Office: 0117 902 0344
http://www.tobaccofactorytheatres.com/shows/detail/the_grand_gesture/
Photos: Graham Burke
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