LUU Theatre Group

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‘Man is a fruit, a creature of juice and colour and perfume. They would tear out his pith and turn him into a robot. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.’
Love can overcome information. Information can transform love. Love can manifest in information. Information can translate love. Love can replace information. Information can empower love.
Once upon a time, a man named Noah was sent by God to save all the animals of the world on a big boat. Once upon another time, God forgot to send them home. Oops.
Truth and time, science and poetry, noise and heat, the classical and the romantic, all fuse together brilliantly in Stoppard’s wickedly funny and poignant masterpiece.
The actors are preparing for their fourth night of the Farce ‘Nothing Untoward’ and final checks are being made by the stage manager. But an agent is coming to watch the show, one of the cast’s props has gone missing and the actors are beginning to suspect one another.
The Class of 2011 are about to graduate, and Benny, Mack, Timp and Cam are due out of their flat tomorrow morning; five bedrooms, five chairs, four boys – and one hell of a party.
What would you do when the clock strikes? The apocalypse is scheduled for 12 o’clock this Tuesday. A fireball is due to engulf and incinerate the entire Earth in barely a moment. All life extinguished instantly.
You don’t think something bad’s happened? You don’t think he’s hurt?
Dennis Potter’s powerful play follows the action of seven children in the countryside on a long summer’s afternoon in 1943. Escaping the domestic struggles of wartime Britain they spend their time playing and fantasising about their fathers far away in the war.

by Dylan Marsh

Even in death there’s pain, there are rules and there are mangos. 7.30pm Alec Clegg Studio £8.50 (£6.50)