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POWERFUL SIXTIES DRAMA AT BLACKPOOL'S GRAND

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05-09-2008 | Author: Press Office

Blackpool theatre company In Yer Space brings the beautifully bittersweet Be My Baby 
to the Lawrence House Studio on September 10th

Amanda Whittington’s potent play is a story of youthful fantasies of romance and marriage inexorably turning to outrage by powerless adulthood.

In Yer Space is a Blackpool theatre company consisting of past and present students of Arnold School. The students will perform Amanda Whittington’s poignant play Be My Baby to a backing track of sensational sounds of the 1960s in the Lawrence House Studio at the Grand Theatre from Wednesday 10th September to Friday 12th September.

The sixties weren’t swinging for all the young girls sent to unmarried mother and baby homes...

Mary is seventeen years old, single and seven months pregnant. Bundled off to St Saviour’s - a Church of England run mother and baby home by her 'concerned' mother who has arranged for the baby to be immediately adopted after it’s born, Mary finds comfort and friendship with the other girls at the home, but ultimately, like them, has to face up to her tragic situation alone.

Set in mid-Sixties England and featuring the uplifting sounds of 60s girl groups such as The Shangri-La’s and The Ronnettes, Amanda Whittington’s potent play is a story of youthful fantasies of romance and marriage inexorably turning to outrage by powerless adulthood.

Since forming in 1999, In Yer Space theatre company has built a reputation for developing and showcasing young talent through the presentation of challenging work with a cast made up of current and former pupils of Arnold School, many of whom are aiming to move on to drama school and a professional career in the performing arts.

Be My Baby comes to the Grand fresh from a sell out, three week run at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

In Yer Space Artistic Director, Colin Snell, said: “Be My Baby has done phenomenally well at the Fringe festival with great reviews and audience figures that have been the best for a single show in ten years! Don’t miss us at Blackpool’s Grand Theatre next week!”

Be My Baby is at the Lawrence House Studio at the Grand Theatre, Blackpool from Wednesday 10th September to Friday 12th September at 8pm.

Tickets £8.50.

Call 01253 290190 or book online at www.blackpoolgrand.co.uk


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Notes for Editors:

In Yer Space
In Yer Space is based at Arnold School, Blackpool and was set up in 1999 specifically for a two-handed version of Marlowe’s Dr Faustus at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. 

Since that time, productions of Stephen McDonald’s Not About Heroes, Miller’s A View From the Bridge, Pinter’s The Birthday Party, Naomi Wallace’s Birdy, Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads, Lee Hall’s Spoonface Steinberg, Stephen Dinsdale’s Anorak of Fire, Marie Jones’ A Night in November, Mark O’Rowe’s Howie the Rookie, Debbie Isitt’s The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband, Jim Cartwright’s I Licked a Slag’s Deodorant, John Retallack’s Hannah and Hanna, Enda O’Brien’s Disco Pigs and Amanda Whittington’s Be My Baby, have been performed at the Fringe, often with productions stopping off at the Buxton Festival Fringe prior to Edinburgh.

Productions have also toured to other venues including the Theatre by the Lake, Keswick; the Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal; the Penrith Playhouse, Penrith; the Lawrence House Studio Theatre at Blackpool’s Grand Theatre; the Grange Arts Centre, Oldham and the Royal National Theatre, London.

The company is made up of past and present students of Arnold School, Blackpool; many of whom go on to either University Drama Departments or Drama Schools including: RADA, LAMDA, The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, East 15 Theatre School, the Arts Educational Schools, London; the Central School of Speech and Drama, the Webber Douglas Drama Academy of Dramatic Art and Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. In fact twenty four students have gone on either to Drama Schools or University Drama Departments in the last nine years, including two to RADA.

Former members of Arnold Drama and In Yer Space working professionally include: Jonas Armstrong (currently playing the lead role of ROBIN HOOD for the BBC), Jenna-Louise Coleman (Jasmin in Emmerdale), Tom Swire (Seb Webb in Footballers’ Wives) and Laura Darkins (currently touring with Cats).

For further information on In Yer Space please contact Colin Snell, Artistic Director
email: colinsnell534@btinternet.com
website: www.inyerspace.co.uk


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Sarah Jane Wright
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Grand Theatre, Blackpool
01253 743252
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