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Home > Theatre > Get to Bed!

Get to Bed!

By Caroline King - September 1, 2012Posted in : Theatre

Bed by Jim Cartwright at the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre When: 11th – 29th September 2012

Where: Jack Studio Theatre, 410 Brockley Road, London SE4 2DH

£: 13 (10 concessions)

What is it?

Old Bomb Theatre Company brings you another intimate and atmospheric show, complete with specially composed music and a very large bed…

In Jim Cartwright’s extraordinary play about sleep, insomnia and growing old, eight elderly characters relive their lives and evoke their dreams.  After a year of epic national events, Old Bomb Theatre’s production questions ageing ideas of Britishness, and what still holds true for us in the wake of the 2011 riots?

More info: www.brockleyjack.co.uk

Tagged With: Brockley Jack Studio Theatre, London, London events, London theatre, Old Bomb Theatre Company

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