The Big Adventure

A TRULY HAPPY PERSON IS ONE WHO CAN ENJOY THE SCENERY ON A DETOUR.

Another first for Hard Graft Theatre Company

Hard Graft theatre company will be performing their brand new project “The Big Adventure” this May. But true to the Hard Graft style they take performing to extraordinary lengths as they will be walking from Bangor to Boston (Lincolnshire) as they do it. To make it even tougher they’ll have no money, nowhere to sleep and no idea where there adventures might take them.

But Hard Graft Theatre Company are no strangers to performing in alternative spaces, they are renowned for their innovation having already performed in shops, offices, houses even narrow boats with their sell out show ‘Thick As Thieves’. “I’ve always wanted to take good entertainment to the heart of community” said Mark Whiteley, artistic director of Hard Graft. “Walking is a slow business, you see life at a different pace, In a world where we fly around at 100 miles an hour it’s refreshing to change the tempo ”.

The Big Adventure is the story of their story, two lone walkers with no money, no bed and no way of knowing if they’ll get to the end. Half improvised, half scripted in weaves folk law with urban myth.

“We are taken a big risk with this show.” Said Whiteley. “We’ve picked up stories from everywhere, interlaced cultures and styles to build our biggest adventure yet.”

The Big Adventure opens on the 2nd May 2006 at 20:00 in the Capel Curig Community Centre North Wales and walks 20 miles east every day till the 16th May when it reaches Blackfriars Arts Centre in Boston, hopefully….

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