OUR SPRING PRODUCTIONS 2024

Poor Yorick

By Phil Mansell

Performed at the Brotfabrik, Bonn-Beuel
Friday 10^th May 2024

This is a one-off performance, staged under FEATS festival competition conditions.

Yorick the jester is not dead – he’s on the road dying a death as he pioneers a new kind of comedy called stand-up.
When this fails, he is persuaded by his tavern-wench girlfriend Bess to return to Elsinore and get his old job back – but when he arrives he finds there have been many changes, and he becomes embroiled in Hamlet’s plans for revenge.

This is a 50 minute play, with no interval. There are no discounts or student tickets for this performance.

They Don’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!

By Dario Fo
adapted by Deborah McAndrew

Performed at the Brotfabrik, Bonn-Beuel
Wednesday 29^th May – Sunday 2^nd June 2024

Anthea is a woman on the edge, out of work, and in arrears.
When she gets mixed up in a riot at the local supermarket, she seizes the opportunity to stock her empty cupboards and those of her friend, Maggie. But how will they hide the loot from their law-abiding husbands? What will they tell the police? When the going gets tough Anthea’s fantastical imagination takes over, resulting in a farcical descent into absurdity.

Dario Fo’s classic comedy, relocated to a 2024 post-pandemic, post-Brexit Britain, is a timeless, fast and furious political satire on the enduring plight of the working poor.