Birmingham Repertory Theatre

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Writer: Douglas Maxwell
Director: Ben Payne
Designer: Chloe Lamford
Lighting Designer: Simon Bond
Composer/Sound Designer: Jon Nicholls

Special Dates

Page to Stage : Thu 14 February
Theatre Day : Thu 14 February, Fri 15 February
After Dark : Fri 15 February
Captioned Performance : Fri 15 February
Audio Described Performance : Fri 15 February, Tue 4 March
Spotlight : Wed 5 March

Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company presents

The Mother Ship

Thu 14 Feb 2008 – Sat 15 Mar 2008

The Door

Eliot is 18 and under severe stress. There’s no girlfriend in sight, his best mate has stopped swearing and his pregnant step-mum is even more stressed than he is…. and then, having got the call from outer space to say that The Mother Ship is leaving and coming to take him home, his disabled brother Gerry disappears. And it’s all Eliot’s fault.

A riotous chase kicks off involving a love-lorn lifeguard, a policeman who believes in the existence of Klingons and a car that can turn into a boat.

The Mother Ship is a fantastically funny new adventure about what it means to be young, to be different, or just to believe in something beyond the ordinary. Following its premiere in The Door, The Mother Ship will tour both regionally and nationally.

Douglas Maxwell’s previous plays include Helmet, the multi-award-winning Decky Does A Bronco and Mancub.

Date	Time	Date information
Thu 14th Feb	19:00	Theatre Day, Page to Stage
Fri 15th Feb	19:00	Theatre Day, Captioned Performance, Audio Described Performance, After Dark
Sat 16th Feb	19:00
Tue 4th Mar	19:00	Audio Described Performance
Wed 5th Mar	14:00	Spotlight
Thu 6th Mar	19:00
Fri 7th Mar	14:00
Sat 15th Mar	19:00

“Not only was the dialogue comic, the timely use of “space age” music added to the atmosphere and played its part in telling the story. The Mother Ship comes highly recommended, a credit to new theatre.”
Helen Chapman, The Public Reviews