Touchstones is a top night venue
IN 2018, Touchstones will continue its Friday Night Events Programme with three exciting performances already announced.
On Friday, February 9, Bellow Theatre presents Bare Skin On Briny Water.
Underscored with live folk music, this is a story about survival and escape from an award-winning, new writing company rooted in brave and stirring storytelling.
Supported by artists of Hull Truck Theatre and emerging company New Diorama Theatre, Bare Skin On Briny Waters was a hit at Edinburgh fringe, where it was part of the Hull City of Culture Takeover and earned two award commendations from NSDF for Writing and Acting. Ths show starts at 7.30pm and tickets cost £6.
Affectionately known as The Bolton Bullfrog, Bernard Wrigley appears on Friday, February 23.
Bernard has been delighting audiences for more than 45 years.
He’s forged a reputation with seriously daft songs and humorous monologues, together with his highly respected ability on the guitar.
He’s an actor as well as a singer and storyteller. He played Barry Clegg – the hapless rocket builder whose wife Lisa left him for Zak Dingle in Emmerdale, featured in three episodes of Dinner Ladies with Victoria Wood and then appeared as Dodgy Eric in Phoenix Nights with Peter Kay, where he insisted that Brian Potter hire a bouncy castle with a 15ft phallic extension.
Radio listeners will have heard Bernard’s contributions to the Mark Radcliffe programmes on Radios 1 and 2. Drama lovers will recognise his dulcet tones from quite a few plays and serials on Radio 4 as well, plus his many appearances on Radio Lancashire.
He’ll be performing his unique blend of songs, stories, monologues and guitar playing from 7.30pm. Tickets cost £8.
The third offering is Just Turf on Friday, March 16, a play by Tom Hogan starring Susan Guest as Martha and Tom as everyone else.
This is a poignant, original and dark exploration of one woman’s personal fantasy to dance with Michael Flately and smother him in her prize winning creamy mashed potato.
Like many Irish families, Martha’s siblings have migrated across the globe and, as the youngest, she is left at home, dealing with her demanding, ailing, feckless father.
Vexed, Maisie spends her days furiously shining her dancing shoes, before banging out her one two threes in an elaborate, hand stitched, hand washed, velour panelled dress.
This is a play exploring a passion of youth, now lost and the frustration of a traditional dance repeatedly whumped out on a hard kitchen floor.
The show starts at 7.30pm, tickets are £6.
Call 01706 924928 or visit link4life.org/centres/ touchstones-rochdale for tickets.