A Family Double Bill
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Performers Michael Pinchbeck and Simon Bowes each brought their parents to work for this double-bill of distinctly personal performance, reflecting on family histories and the passing of time.
Michael Pinchbeck: The Post-show Party Show
Award-winning writer and performance maker Michael Pinchbeck takes his parents, Tony and Vivienne, on tour to recreate the post-show party where they met in 1970 after an amateur dramatic production of The Sound of Music.
Kings of England: Where We Live and What We Live For
In 2001, the father of artist Simon Bowes fell from a bicycle and forgot his name, where he was and where he lived. Performed by Simon alongside his 74-year-old father, Where we live and what we live for attempts to explore the passing of time and a world of forgotten people and things.
This carefully crafted assembly of personal history and stories meditates on love, loss, happiness and how to get better with age.
Co-commissioned by Nuffield Theatre Lancaster and BAC.
