Following the success of their 5* 2015 Edinburgh hit Spillikin, (nominated for the
Carol Tambor "Best of the Fringe" award), Cornwall's Pipeline Theatre revives its debut play TRANSPORTS for a national tour in Spring 2016, running 29 January - 26 March 2016, with a London Press Night set for 1 March, 7.30pm at the Pleasance Theatre.
In the late 1970s a volatile teenager is shunted into her final foster home. Her new carer is an eccentric chatterbox, who keeps her Kindertransport past buried in a trunk. As youth plays cat and mouse with age, their stories collide with devastating consequences.
Weaving film and a sumptuously evocative underscore, and located around two, monolithic, life-size, vertical railway tracks, TRANSPORTS, by turns funny and moving, is a journey not quickly forgotten. In a world where our media is full of images of a new refugee migration, TRANSPORTS takes in the last great refugee crisis of WW2, to look at the consequences of displacement, both geographical and emotional, through the eyes of two mismatched individuals.
The story was inspired by the experiences of designer Alan Munden's mother, Liesl, who was on the last Kindertransport to England during the war. Pipeline Theatre is a an emerging company consisting of four experienced practitioners, with credits including Miracle Theatre, Cube Theatre, English Touring Opera, The Citizen's Theatre, Plymouth Theatre Royal. They have a growing reputation for addressing serious, potentially difficult yet universally relevant subjects in a moving, humorous and totally engrossing way.
SPRING 2016 TOUR DATES:
- January 29th 2016 - January 30th 2016, Ustinov Studio, Bath Theatre Royal, Bath
- February 2nd 2016, Forest Arts Centre, Hampshire
- February 3rd 2016, Talbot Theatre, Whitchurch
- February 4th 2016, SPaRCs Theatre, Bishops Castle
- February 5th 2016, The Courtyard Theatre, Hereford
- February 6th 2016, The Old Fire Station, Oxford
- February 12th 2016, Wadebridge Town Hall, Wadebridge
- February 19th 2016, The Acorn Arts Centre, Penzance
- February 20th 2016, Grampound Village Hall, Cornwall
- February 21st 2016, Maker with Rame Community Hall, Cornwall
- February 26th 2016, Derby Theatre, Derby
- February 28th 2016 - March 12th 2016, Pleasance Theatre, London
- March 15th 2016, Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury
- March 18th 2016, Mullion School, Cornwall
- March 19th 2016, The Poly, Falmouth
- March 22nd 2016, Farnham Maltings, Surrey
- March 23rd 2016, Ashcroft Arts Centre, Fareham
- March 24th 2016 - March 26th 2016, Salisbury Playhouse, Salisbury
Running Time: 60 mins. Tickets: £12 (£10 concessions, £1 booking fee). Visit pipelinetheatre.com for more information.
