Birds of Paradise to tour critically acclaimed darkish comedy Don’t Make Tea.
Another bloody severe comedy from Birds of Paradise Theatre Company.
Scotland’s preeminent disability-led theatre firm Birds of Paradise are set to mark their thirtieth anniversary with a UK huge tour of their darkish comedy thriller Don’t Make Tea. A witty ridiculing of the welfare state, the present explores a futuristic advantages regime by means of the evaluation of Chris as she is pressured to assert advantages. With bitingly satirical dialogue, and cutting-edge accessible staging interwoven by means of the present, Don’t Make Tea confronts the lengths disabled folks should go to to be able to protect themselves in an unjust system.
In the yr 2030, fiercely unbiased Chris has no alternative however to surrender her job when her situation deteriorates. Forced to assert advantages, she is paid a go to by the spirited WorkPay worker Ralph, who’s tasked with assessing her suitability for assist beneath the brand new regime. As it turns into more and more obvious that the brand new system Ralph locations a lot religion in has little intension of granting Chris the help she wants, she should confront simply how far she should be keen to go to avoid wasting herself.
Seamlessly mixing the awful realities of trying to assert advantages with laugh-out-loud black comedy, Don’t Make Tea is an intensely absurd, wildly entertaining illustration of a believable close to future. Birds of Paradise are thrilled to be bringing this manufacturing to audiences across the UK, after an acclaimed run at Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre in 2022.
All performances are captioned and have creatively embedded BSL interpretation and audio description.
Writer Rob Drummond feedback, This is a bit I’ve been enthusiastic about writing for a very long time – since turning into conscious of the inherent, typically Kafkaesque, drama concerned in endeavor a incapacity evaluation on this nation. The play I had in thoughts, nonetheless, has been drastically enhanced by the provocations and challenges gifted to me by BOP and their associates. I’m happy with what we’ve provide you with – a darkish comedy that doesn’t declare to have all of the solutions however hopefully asks loads of the appropriate questions, in a method that goals to heal political divides quite than exacerbate them.
Artistic Director Robert Softley Gale says We’re thrilled to be bringing again this hit manufacturing showcasing our dynamic strategy to creatively embedded entry and inserting the tales of disabled folks centre stage throughout the UK. This present feels frighteningly related to our lives proper now.
Birds of Paradise Theatre Company is Scotland’s main touring theatre firm using disabled and non-disabled actors. Established in 1993, BOP grew to become incapacity led in 2012 and now focuses on delivering work throughout BOP Theatre, BOP Development and BOP Strategy strands to have the widest impression domestically and internationally. As BOP enters its thirtieth anniversary yr, the corporate’s work continues to impression on the range of the broader cultural panorama, remaining world-renowned for integrating entry into all its productions, and in creating work that addresses incapacity with truthfully, integrity, and humour.
Performance Dates:
twenty first – twenty second March Traverse Theatre, 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh EH1 2ED
twenty sixth March – 6 th April Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, London W1D 3NE
9 th April The Gaiety Theatre, Carrick Street, Ayr KA7 1NU
eleventh – thirteenth April Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HB
sixteenth April Cumbernauld Theatre at Lanternhouse, Lanternhouse South Kildrum Ring Road, Cumbernauld G67 2UF
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