BROKEN BISCUITS
Presented by Swine Theatre.
Idealistic social work graduate ENID is blackmailed into taking part in an experimental project to live on the notoriously bizarre 'Bernard Hepton' estate. She is quickly drawn into a nightmarish/rib-tickling mystery - involving murder, mind-control, and one mans mad attempt to create paradise with an army of the insane...
This play takes a sideways, tragi-comic look at the strange, twilight world of mental health social work.
Whoever is ruining the country by the time this show is performed, one thing is for sure - they will have to deal with the kind of cartoonish twenty-first century problems highlighted here: Spooky corporate agendas of the social care industry, worrying trends in mental illness, and the unnerving antics of the so-called underclass...
The play stars actors Rachel Priest and Chris Barlow, as well as director Ian Curley, who also takes a Dr. Strangelovesque three roles ( pompous, out of touch sociology professor Emil; deeply disturbed gay nazi Arthur Parsons; and sinister amateur psychologist Bob Goodman.)
Also appearing will be performance artist Karen McLeod as lovable schizophrenic Susie Papers. The show is written by myself, Tam Hinton. I shall be performing in the role of 'The storyteller'.
"Extraordinary. Mind-bending - and exhilarating" - Kevin Bourke, Manchester Evening News
DIRECTOR: Swine Theatre. PERFORMED BY: Chris Barlow, Ian Curley, Tam Hinton, Karen McLeod, Rachel Priest.
Dates: Wed 12th May - Sat 15th May