Curtain Up! Festival Week listings

Monday 20th February, 7.30pm

The Paper Birds present Thirsty

Multi award winning company The Paper Birds present their critically acclaimed, sell-out show Thirsty. Based on our nations love affair with alcohol, Thirsty weaves together real stories, memories and booze-based confessions, collected from a drunken hotline and an online questionnaire. Fusing live music, verbatim text and stunning physical theatre, The Paper Birds explore the stories and social repercussions of lost memories and gained traumas, bruised knees, uncontrollable laughter, urine stained beds and sore heads, particularly focusing on the women waving the flag for 'Booze-Britain.' A dynamic theatrical exploration delving beyond statistics, facts and figures Thirsty looks to the faces and the voices of everyone who likes a drink and asks why, as a Nation, are we so thirsty?

Tuesday 21st February, 7.30pm

Ashley-J and Tee-J present ACTing Up

Comedy Double-act & Presenters Ashley J and Tee-J bring you a night of fun, laughter and entertainment: ACTing Up! Is a LIVE improvised comedy game show where you, the audience, take the judges seat. Umpired by DJ Joe Grime, two teams of performers battle it out, creating comical versions of songs, adverts and well known films. You give the ideas. You decide the best team. You pay for your own drinks.tap water it is then!

Wednesday 22nd February, 7.30pm

The Garage Theatre Company present a double bill:

The Grandfathers & One Million Tiny Plays About Britain

In preparation for the National Theatre Connections Festival, our talented Theatre Company take to the stage. All tickets for this performance are £5.00

Thursday 23rd February, 7.30pm

The Wardrobe Ensemble presents RIOT

10 February 2005. At the stroke of midnight the British public punch, kick, strangle and eventually stab their way to £45 sofas and £35 bed frames at the opening of their favourite Swedish furniture store.

Riot is a true story set in a lamp-lit flat-pack universe bursting with violence, chaos and more characters than you can throw a meatball at. Hammered together with physical theatre and music, The Wardrobe Ensemble tear up the instructions and disregard the diagrams to construct a comedic tragedy of a thoroughly modern kind.

Friday 24th February, 7.30pm

Milk Presents Bluebeard: A Fairytale for Adults

Let your senses be seduced with the playfully anarchic and darkly enticing world of Bluebeard: A Fairytale for Adults.

Milk Presents unravels the tale of a violent nobleman in the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts by one of them to avoid the fate of her predecessors.

Using pedals to produce power, chains and pulleys to wreak revenge, homespun contraptions and cabaret song Bluebeard: A Fairytale For Adults is a feast of raw entertainment with seductive storytelling at its heart.

Ticket prices:

£5.00 under 25s

£7.50 over 25s

Festival Pass £15.00 under 25s, £20 over 25s

School/large Groups one adult free with every 10 under 25 tickets quote GA100group online

Box Office Details:

Book tickets online at www.thegarage.org.uk