12th November 2007
It certainly won’t be a white Christmas at Hull Truck Theatre, it’ll be a… Blue Cross Xmas!
Thursday 6th December 2007 – Saturday 19th January 2008, 8pm
Christmas is not always as festive as it seems – ask a doctor, or police officer...or department store staff member. Blue Cross Xmas, the hilarious world premiere by Hull Truck’s Associate Director Nick Lane, takes the audience behind the counters of Jasper & Yates and into the normally secret world of the stockroom. There, things are not so festive. For while sales shoppers see Christmas as a fantastic once-a-year chance to grab cheap china, a half-price hat or a knocked-down nightie, Jasper & Yates staff see it very differently.
This sideways look at Christmas is the latest offering from Nick Lane, whose festive children’s shows such as Snow White and When Santa Got Stuck in the Fridge have attracted full houses - but this is the first time he has written a Yuletide comedy for adults. Nick’s first original adult play, My Favourite Summer, was a hit with critics and audiences alike, enjoying rave reviews and packed theatres during a nationwide tour earlier this year.
Blue Cross Xmas stars Hull Truck regular and cast member of last year’s festive hit Christmas Crackers, Rob Angell, first-time Truck performers Christopher Lazenby and Thea Rowland, along with Meriel Scholfield and Rebecca Clay.
Whether you’ll be joining the hordes of jostling shoppers on Boxing Day or can’t imagine anything worse, you’re sure to enjoy plenty of laughs at Blue Cross Xmas.
Book online or call Box Office 01482 323638
Media enquiries, including interview requests, to Alice Mooney, Marketing Officer (Press / PR). Tel 01482 325012 or email: alice@hulltruck.co.ukNotes for editors:
Press night for Blue Cross Xmas is Friday December 7, 8pm.
There will be a matinee performance of Blue Cross Xmas at 2pm on Saturday January 19.
There will be a post-show talk back with the director and cast on Tuesday December 11.
Tickets for Blue Cross Xmas are priced £6.50-£16 with special rates for groups available.
Blue Cross Xmas is written and directed by Nick Lane.
Nick Lane has been writing for Hull Truck Theatre since 2000 when he was given the opportunity to adapt and direct Frankenstein. Since then other literary adaptations have followed including Lady Chatterley’s Lover (2002), Moby Dick (co-written with John Godber, 2003) and 1984 (2005).
His previous Hull Truck Christmas shows are: A Christmas Carol (2000), Beauty and the Beast (2001), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (2002), The Snow Queen (2003), ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas (2004), the 2005 double bill of When Santa Got Stuck In The Fridge and Scrooge II, and The 12 Days of Christmas and Snow White (2006).
Nick has also written Hull Truck’s 2007 Christmas production for children, Little Red Riding Hood.