Our Four Lunchtime Plays celebrate Newport Transporter Bridge in her Centenary Year.
Out of an initiative promoting new writing for theatre and a CCLL scriptwriting course have emerged four new lunchtime plays by local Newport writers.
The timescale of the four plays entitled The Lady of the Usk, Hats, Only Kissing Mind and The Mark of a Man cover the bridge's history from its opening, the 1950s and 1980s drawing on the Friends of Newport Transporter Bridge and its archives of local stories, events, memories and incidents in the bridge's long history.
After the success of the first play, The Lady of the Usk, by Alan Roderick in September, the second play in the series Hats by Mary Anstey looks at the divisions in Newport communities that were physically realised by being on either sides of the River and how the opening of the new bridge heralded a coming together of hitherto disparate families.
The third play Kissing Only Mind by Andrew Cambray takes a look at love and the fate of a young couples relationship in the 1950s when the bridge was a favoured courting venue'
The final play The Mark of a Man by Greg Glover spotlights the hijacking of the bridge by striking miners in the 1980s and the gritty realities of conflicting loyalties.
The plays run in the studio theatre at the Riverfront. A must for all Newportonians and lovers of the Transporter Bridge to see in a celebration year.
Playing time: 1 hour
Tickets £4.00 (£3.50 concessions) from the Riverfront Box Office
Schedule
November 2006
Lunchtime plays at the Riverfront, Newport as follows
Wednesday 8th 1pm "Hats" Directed by Vanessa Dodd
3pm "Kissing Only Mind" Directed by Clare Isaac
Thursday 9th 1pm "Kissing Only Mind" 3pm "Hats"
December 2006
Lunchtime play 'The Mark of a Man' at the Riverfront on Wednesday 13th & Thursday 14th at 1pm
December Xmas Special
Dates and Venue to be Advised
Christmas In Gwent
Readings from the works of Alan Roderick,
a Member of the Screwpacket Playwrights
2007
Newport Voices