Autumn 2018
Black RAT Productions and Blackwood Miners’ Institute present a co-production of
LOOT
By Joe Orton
Directed by Richard Tunley
Designed by Sean Crowley
Lighting by Robin Bainbridge
The team behind last year’s One Man, Two Guvnors present a wickedly delicious, original version of Joe Orton’s dark comic masterpiece.
Dennis works for an undertaker. Hal’s old Mum has just died. Ludicrous slapstick meets dubious morals as the two young friends stash the proceeds of a bank robbery in Mum’s occupied coffin, all whilst trying to avoid a crazed policeman, a gold-digging nurse and a grieving widower.
With the money safely hidden, there’s no place for Mum whose body keeps re-appearing at the most inopportune times and our reprehensible thieves stumble their way through with hilarious consequences.
Orton’s classic farce is a glorious mix of lunacy, political incorrectness and macabre humour. Sometimes shocking, sometimes baffling but at all times uproariously funny, this is a theatrical experience not to be missed!
LOOT was first presented at the Cambridge Arts Theatre on 1 February 1965
Age Guide 14+
Contains adult themes & sexual references
Supported by Arts Council Wales
CAST in alphabetical order Julie Barclay … MRS MCLEAVY
John Cording … MR MCLEAVY
Sam Davies … TRUSCOTT
Lee Gilbert … MEADOWS
Sarah Jane Hopkins … FAY MCMAHON
Gareth Tempest … DENNIS
Rick Yale … HAL MCLEAVY
PRODUCTION TEAM By Joe Orton Directed By Richard Tunley Designed By Sean Crowley Production Manager / Lighting Design: Robin Bainbridge
TOUR DATES
BLACKWOOD MINERS’ INSTITUTE
THE HAFREN, Newtown
CONGRESS THEATRE, Cwmbran
PONTARDAWE ARTS CENTRE
THE LYRIC, Carmarthen
17 Hydref / October 1.00pm
THE COLISEUM, Aberdare
THE GRAND PAVILION, Porthcawl
THEATR MWLDAN, Cardigan
NEUADD DWYFOR, Pwllheli
STWIT THEATRE, Wrexham
TORCH THEATRE, Milford Haven
THE FFWRNES, Llanelli
ABERYSTWYTH ARTS CENTRE
ROYAL WELSH COLLEGE
OF MUSIC & DRAMA
BOROUGH THEATRE, Abergavenny
MAESTEG TOWN HALL
THEATR BRYCHEINIOG, Brecon