GULLZ
Christmas Day morning. An early-bird jogger puffs and pants his solitary middle-aged path round Millbay’s deserted streets.
Alone?
Not quite. The sex workers don’t close for Christmas. Nor do the seagulls. So, what’s our man out for? To feed the birds? Hardly, he hates them. Out for a festive work-out - that’s for sure - but what sort?
And why does he does he get the feeling the birds are doing some human-watching?
Love them or hate them? There’s no getting away from them
They’re a part of any town or city landscape. Opportunistic thieves or lovable rascals. Vicious killers or victims of environment change? A baway and raucous look at how one weed species (us) may need adjust to enforced co-existence with others.
Expect plenty of audience participation!
PLYMOUTH-PLYMOUTH: ARE WE THERE YET?
Final part of the PLYMOUTH-PLYMOUTH trilogy.
This is the Mayflower “story” as told by three female characters. High school student – Dorothy - her namesake on board the Mayflower and Sokanon, a member of the Nauset tribe.
The play centres on the theme of “strangers”. Dorothy “junior” who feels alienated from her own time and Dorothy “senior” who has left England to set up life in a world alien in both nature and customs.
And then there's Sokanon, who just so happens to already live in the “new world”, and unwillingly about to become part of a process that will change her life - and the lives of those she loves and cherishes - forever.
And whose descendants will effectively become strangers in their own land
NEEDING SOMEONE
"Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone", or so Kelly Clarkson assures us.
Take one park, add two benches, divide by eight. Eight individuals who happen to come to the same space every lunchtime . But, apart from that, what else do they have in common Are they lonely - or just alone? What is the difference between the two feelings? Is there actually one?
Or does Kelly Clarkson have it right?* Join us - and Trixie, and Brian and Joan and all the others - in a park near you and you may find out. (Bring your own packed lunch and a mac!)
* Mind you -same song- she also says "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" so, who knows?