in partnership with The B-Bar
The Wheel
The Mother by Bertolt Brecht
Age guidance 12+
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Fri 16 Jun
- Sat 17 Jun
Doors: 7:10pmShowtime: 7:30pm
Approx 80 mins
£10/£12
During a time of protest, strikes and civil unrest, Pelagea, a widow and mother worries about her sons future. After the impact of police brutality and fearful of an impending cost of living crisis, Bertolt Brecht’s The Mother explores the journey to and need for, revolutionary action.
Brecht conceived of The Mother as a learning play, intended both to entertain and incite social change. This highly visual production is a contemporary retelling which examines the plays relevance in todays social and economic unrest.
Directed by Amanda Collins & Kevin Johnson
Performed by The Wheel’s One Year Part-Time Actor Training Company.
[Publicity Image by Mike Redmond]
Tickets
Full £12
Concessions £10
(under 16s, over 60s, registered disabled, students)
Prices stated are inclusive of any booking fees - the prices here are what you pay at the checkout.
Attendee guidance / trigger warnings / safe space
Age Guidance: 12+
Emotional / trigger warnings: contains themes of protest and police brutality
Health warnings: non expected
Barbican Theatre is a safe space - safe to be who you are, regardless of race, class, religion, country of origin, immigration status, (dis)ability, age, gender, identity, or sexual orientation.
About The Wheel
The Wheel are an independent actor training and production company, based in Plymouth. The Wheel works as a production company producing high quality, professional touring theatre work whilst hosting a range of continuous training opportunities for beginners through to professional development for experienced performers. We strive to integrate all elements of our work to feed into and benefit each other however we find it useful to articulate our work into three key areas: Actor Training, Actor Development & Networks and Productions.
The Training Company
We produce, programme and run a range of training opportunities across the year. These vary from one off workshops through to more committed weekly classes in specific areas.
We offer bespoke one-to-one actor coaching and tuition which are tailored to your individual needs, and puts you in the driving seat to craft your own training. This works best in person though we often work remotely via video calls.
This year we are also launching a new vocational part time actor training - 'The Wheel Actor Training Company'. Where students can work and train at the same time therefore not getting themselves into huge amounts of debt.
Actor Development & Networks
Our Network/Development strand of work focusses on working and developing opportunities for and supporting professional actor's and theatre makers predominantly across the South West Peninsula.
This is led by our flagship project 'The South West Actor's Network' - a membership scheme for professional actor's with a base in the South West. As part of the Network we offer
'The Actor's Gym' a place for actor's to keep 'fit' and ready for the next job/casting.
In addition to this we also offer, one-to-one bespoke coaching, which includes: online support, 'actor life coaching' and practical coaching. as well as additional specialist CPD workshops/residencies and an annual scratch Festival 'SeptemberFest' for artists to showcase new ideas and work to public and industry professionals.
The company work with us for one year culminating in professionally produced theatre production which can tour a number of venues.
The Production Company
We aim to produce a number of shows per year, host festivals, and will look to begin to produce films in the future.
We have recently co-produced a series of alternative Christmas shows with the Barbican Theatre Plymouth.
For our own productions we try to cast initially from people we know or have worked with but will always endeavour to balance this with casting calls to meet new actors and help to diversify the range of actors working in the region. We try to embrace a 50% new, 50% old rule of thumb which helps keep our work growing and evolving
Tickets
Full £12, Concessions £10 which includes registered disabled, under 16s, over 60s and students.
All prices are inclusive of any booking fees.
Accessiblity
We have step free access from when you arrive at Barbican building to access the bar, theatre, studio, offices and accessible toilets.
More access info here
If you have any specific access requirements (for example wheelchair access) please leave details in the comment box when placing your order or email our team at info@barbicantheatre.co.uk and they will arrange this for you.
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