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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 now through 26 March 2016, with a London Press Night set for tonight 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
