Corpus Playroom: Shows

Be My Baby
Amanda Whittington
Tuesday 15th May - Saturday 19th May
£6/£5

‘Be My Baby’ follows the life of pregnant 19 year old, Mary Adams. Forcibly sent to a Mother and Baby Home in the north of England by a mother intent on keeping up appearances, Mary – along with the other girls in the home – has to cope with both the shame and the dawning realization that she will have to give the baby up for adoption whether she likes it or not. Despite their harrowing circumstances and an overbearing matron, the girls stick by each other through the hard times as they sing along to the girl-group songs of the period.

'You don't have to be young, female or unmarried to find it immensely touching' The Times

Rum and Vodka
Conor McPherson
Tuesday 22nd May - Saturday 26th May
£6/£5

Rum and vodka: a libation with the power to wake the dead.

First produced when the author was twenty, Conor McPherson's (The Weir, The Veil) Rum and Vodka is a soul baring monologue from a young man who smashes out of his routine and embarks on a three day bender through Dublin that threatens to consume him entirely.

Follow our hero on a lost weekend; sink a pint or six with him and he'll share with you his story.

Obedience/Authority
Fergus A. Blair
Tuesday 22nd May - Saturday 26th May
£6/£5

What happens when the scientist becomes the subject and autocracy becomes anarchy? How far can a man be pushed before he breaks?

Obedience/Authority, a new play from an award-winning poet, is the story of a confrontation between a scientist testing the limits of human obedience and an artist struggling to cling on to his own sanity. What begins as a simple – if ethically questionable – experiment soon devolves into a complex game of intimidation and misinformation. Allegiances are formed and broken, loyalties are won and lost and a story that must be told slowly and chillingly emerges.

Inspired by the Milgram electric chair, one of history’s most controversial experiments, Obedience/Authority is by turns funny, moving and terrifying, and will have you leave the theatre unsure of the beliefs you came in with.

Widow's Walk
Robert Yates
Tuesday 12th June - Saturday 16th June
£6/£5

Abigail hurries to finish a collection of paintings for her exhibition celebrating the imminent return of her long-absent brother, John. The pressing deadline, an interfering mother, a ruthlessly competitive mentor, and a close friend all force Abigail to recognise: her art and happiness rest on John’s return.

Set on the coast of New England, Widow’s Walk is a new piece of realist theatre that takes audiences on a holiday to the beach like no other.

It's Complicated
Daniel Henry Kaes
Tuesday 12th June - Saturday 16th June
£6/£5

In the modern world, it has never been easier to sustain a relationship, what with social-networking, post-modernity, and downright slutty girls. Daniel believes a long-term, long-distance relationship is what he needs to cure his heartbreak. He must endure the overdose of technology and information, overbearing fathers, a depressed doorman and his own internal monologue to achieve this somewhat questionable goal.

Will he find his true love, whatever that means? Or will the many mediums of communication inevitably bring his world crashing down around him? Hasn't social networking actually just made things that much more complicated?

Something Unspoken Productions presents
Doubt: A Parable
John Patrick Shanley
Tuesday 19th June - Saturday 23rd June
£6/£5

“In the pursuit of wrongdoing, one steps away from God. Of course there’s a price.”

What would you do if you had doubts? What would you do if you couldn’t prove them? The Bronx, New York; 1964; St Nicholas, a Catholic church and school. The steel-gloved, iron-willed Principal, Sister Aloysius, has her suspicions of the progressive-minded Father Flynn and instructs her fellow sisters to keep an eye on him.

When the young, naïve Sister James notices a change in her student Donald Miller, the only black student in the school, after observing the closeness between him and Father Flynn, she reports her observations to Sister Aloysius. Aloysius is convinced of Flynn’s wrongdoing, Flynn professes his innocence and sermonises on gossip, Donald’s mother begs her to leave it alone and Sister James implores her to find hard evidence.

But Sister Aloysius has a feeling, and no amount of doubt will dissuade her pursuit of the truth.