Entertainment The Flags at Hull Truck
Hull Truck Theatre's scorching spring-summer season will be rounded off in perfect seasonal style with beach-based comedy The Flags next month.
The Flags is written by Bridget O'Connor - this is the first time her work has been staged by Hull Truck Theatre. The play was initially sent in as an unsolicited script to The Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, where directors were so impressed with it that they put it on in the studio theatre. After playing to sell-out audiences there and winning a host of awards in 2006, the Exchange put it on again the following year, this time in the main house.
Hull Truck's Joint Artistic Director Gareth Tudor Price will direct The Flags, working alongside a talented cast of Irish actors. Kieran Cunningham, who played the part of Brendan in the Exchange production, will star, along with Hull Truck favourite Michael Glenn Murphy (Lonesome West, Up On Roof) and Truck newcomers Brona C Titley and Caolan Byrne.
This will be the last spring-summer production to be staged at Hull Truck's Spring Street home before the theatre's move to its new building next year. The combination of the unique auditorium and a play full of Irish craic is a hot summer opportunity too good to miss!
To book tickets, visit www.hulltruck.co.uk or call the box office on 01482 323638.
Above, Michael Glenn Murphy, Kieran Cunningham and Brona C Titley rehearse a hilarious scene from The Flags, in which a young woman is rescued from the sea - but whose fault was it she was drowning? (19-06-81 SU)
Published on 19th June 2008 in Ents.
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