Wild goose, brother goose, which is best? A wandering foot, or a heart at rest?
BOOTS!
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. Three characters circle each other warily on a bizarre journey framed by their extraordinary lives.
BOOTS!
By David Pattison
The Live Art Space
Ferens Art Gallery
Victoria Square
Hull
Thursday 2nd July (7.30pm)
Friday 3rd July (7.30pm)
Saturday 4th July (2.30pm)
Tickets (£8.00)will be on sale in May from the City Hall Box Office tel 01482 226655. Enquiries to 01482 351259.
Anyone who donates a pair of boots or shoes before attending a performance will be able to claim a free gift equal in value to the price of the ticket. The footwear collected will be given to a suitable charity. (Update July 2009 - 5 pairs of footwear were donated.)
Following the above performances the following appeared in the Hull Daily Mail on Saturday July 4th 2009.
'An unflinching look at the raw side of life.'
Opening with a blast of rock music Boots! is a punchy powerful look at lives lived on the edge of society...As the play unfolds we learn the boots of the title stands for everything that traps the characters or that can free them from their lives...In the role of Albert, Barrie Wheatley is a a touchingly naive character. Henry, played with icy viciousness by Andrew Pearson, plots an escape to a better life. And as Lizzie, Pauline Simpson hides her vulnerabilities under a tough exterior...While there's humour here, this is an unflinching glimpse of the raw side of life.
Boots! was first performed at the Manchester 24:7 Festival in 2007. There are tentative thoughts to take the play to the Edinburgh Fringe (or other UK based Festival) in 2010.
About BOOTS!
Albert and Henry are sustained by dreams as they live out their existence on the fringes of society. Henry looks to the day when he will escape ‘over the hills and far away’ and Albert eagerly awaits a benefactor who will bring ‘mugs of cocoa and jammie dodgers’.
Moving between them the tragic figure of Lizzie searches for someone to replace the husband who ‘just got up and left’ some years ago.
United by an obsession with boots, which are sometimes footwear and sometimes something completely different, the three interact in this funny and fascinating play as it moves to a very surprising finale.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. Three characters circle each other warily on a bizarre journey framed by their extraordinary lives.
BOOTS!
By David Pattison
The Live Art Space
Ferens Art Gallery
Victoria Square
Hull
Thursday 2nd July (7.30pm)
Friday 3rd July (7.30pm)
Saturday 4th July (2.30pm)
Tickets (£8.00)will be on sale in May from the City Hall Box Office tel 01482 226655. Enquiries to 01482 351259.
Anyone who donates a pair of boots or shoes before attending a performance will be able to claim a free gift equal in value to the price of the ticket. The footwear collected will be given to a suitable charity. (Update July 2009 - 5 pairs of footwear were donated.)
Following the above performances the following appeared in the Hull Daily Mail on Saturday July 4th 2009.
'An unflinching look at the raw side of life.'
Opening with a blast of rock music Boots! is a punchy powerful look at lives lived on the edge of society...As the play unfolds we learn the boots of the title stands for everything that traps the characters or that can free them from their lives...In the role of Albert, Barrie Wheatley is a a touchingly naive character. Henry, played with icy viciousness by Andrew Pearson, plots an escape to a better life. And as Lizzie, Pauline Simpson hides her vulnerabilities under a tough exterior...While there's humour here, this is an unflinching glimpse of the raw side of life.
Boots! was first performed at the Manchester 24:7 Festival in 2007. There are tentative thoughts to take the play to the Edinburgh Fringe (or other UK based Festival) in 2010.
About BOOTS!
Albert and Henry are sustained by dreams as they live out their existence on the fringes of society. Henry looks to the day when he will escape ‘over the hills and far away’ and Albert eagerly awaits a benefactor who will bring ‘mugs of cocoa and jammie dodgers’.
Moving between them the tragic figure of Lizzie searches for someone to replace the husband who ‘just got up and left’ some years ago.
United by an obsession with boots, which are sometimes footwear and sometimes something completely different, the three interact in this funny and fascinating play as it moves to a very surprising finale.