TWO one-act plays from the Stephen Joseph Theatre’s menu of lunchtime theatre in Scarborough will be switched to an evening engagement when they open the Pickering and District Arts Organisation’s autumn season.
Janine Birkett’s productions of Caroline Gold’s Howard And Mimi and Lee Hall’s Spoonface Steinberg can be seen at Pickering Memorial Hall on September 1.
In Gold’s award-winning play from last summer’s Edinburgh Fringe, Nick and Jane move in together, a union that necessitates his dog coming with him and her cat having to make room. Howard is a boisterous, smelly hound and Mimi is a sophisticated, witty diva of a cat that rules the roost. Hostility and suspicion turn to domesticity and affection in this quirky and unusual tale wherein Gold reflects on politics, death and the battle of the sexes.
In Hall’s Spoonface Steinberg, Spoonface can do sums faster than her dad’s calculator and has discovered that life is about middles, not endings, and that even when you are in the darkest place, there is still someone to sing a beautiful song.
Hall is best known for writing Billy Elliot and this time he turns his attention from a young lad to a special little girl, Spoonface, as he seeks to answer the fundamental questions of human existence through the musings of an autistic child.
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