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A SAMUEL FRENCH, LTD. TITLE
Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w, 4m
Amanda Whittington
Park Street, 1944: A black GI is shot dead. Park Street, 1974: An IRA bomb explodes. Tick-tock-tick-tock-tick-tock-tick. One more hour you'll never get back. One more night passes and nothing has changed. the future is now, man, it's now, man, it's now. And what are you doing with it, 'ey?
An exciting, original play inspired by the legendary Bristol nightclub, the Dug Out. Based on real-life events, this is an uplifting tale of black and white teenage clubbers in the 1970s, set against a classic love story of thirty years earlier.
Commissioned and produced by Splice Theatre and first performed at the Bristol Tobacco Factory, May - June 2013.
SAMMY VAUGHAN (21), a Dug Out regular LEO VAUGHAN (17), his brother and barman RITA LANE (19), a wartime WAAF CURTIS G ANTHONY (21), an American GI GLORIA (21), an androgynous young man SASHA SIMONS (17), a sixth former from Clifton RAE BELL (17), her best friend HOLLY COLLINS (17), a waitress Other clubbers are played by members of the YOUNG CLUBBER’S CHORUS A DJ plays a live set as part of the show.
The play is set in The Dug Out, Park Row, Bristol. December 1974 and July 1944.
"This nostalgic show wins out as unassuming, feel-good fun ... it has a defiant, ramshackle charm." The Times.