New Vic Theatre buckles up for coach trip play

Apr 14 2010 by Will Harris, Crewe Chronicle

AUDIENCES will be whisked away on a comical coach journey at the New Vic Theatre next week.

Men Of The World, written by Bafta-winning writer John Godber will be running for a week at the Newcastle-under-Lyme venue from Tuesday.

The Hull Truck Theatre Company invite you to join Stick, Frank and Happy Larry (two men and a woman) as they embark on another coach journey down the Rhine Valley.

The three actors take turns playing an assortment of passengers, from the dotty old complainers to the retired miners seeking excitement too late and on too little money.

These long suffering drivers have seen it all and done it all, and the audience will travel with them to Paris alongside 30 old age pensioners, where they search for lost teeth in Koblenz, witness love affairs in Boppard and finally, after a four-day ‘Umpah’ party, make the long journey back to their home.

Spokeswoman Clare Hargreaves said: “Funny, sad and cinematic, you’ll be amazed as Stick, Frank and Happy Larry play many of the pensioners in a total evocation of a bus trip. Touching, funny and provoking comedy written by one of the nation’s leading comedy playwrights.”

Men of the World runs from Tuesday until Saturday, April 24. Shows starts at 7.30pm and tickets are priced £8.50-£17.50, to book phone the box office on 01782 717962 or visit www.newvictheatre.org.uk