17th January 2007
BEAN IS THE TOAST OF HULL TRUCK’S NEW SEASON!

Toast by Richard Bean
Thursday 1st March- Saturday 24th March
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Hull Truck Theatre opens its exciting spring and summer season with a production of the gritty comedy Toast by award-winning Hull-born playwright Richard Bean whose play Up on Roof was nominated for the 2006 TMA award for Best New Play.

Toast is a humorous take on life in a fictitious 1970s bread plant. It seems it’s just another Sunday, and just another shift for the lads. Dezzie’s on a promise, Nellie’s on his last smoke and new student Lance is on another planet!

But Blakey’s got bad news - there’s another three thousand loaves to do and ‘if Bradford sez bek it, we gorra bek it.’ The ovens are cranked up and running, and tensions fly high when a spanner in the works means the factory’s future looks bleak. With bread production under threat, will Nellie and his workmates have to ditch their baker’s whites and contemplate life without their daily dollop of wholemeal dough?

This is a slice of 1970s working class life on the factory floor brought to life by the acclaimed Hull Truck Theatre Company, directed by Gareth Tudor Price. The production has been sponsored by legendary Hull bakery, William Jackson & Son.

“As funny touching and brilliant account of men at work as any we have seen”
The Spectator

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Editor’s Notes:
o Warning this play contains strong language
o Suitable for Age 16 plus
o Toast was first performed at The Royal Court Theatre in 1999 and directed by Richard Wilson
o Richard Bean was born in East Hull in 1956
o Hull Truck Theatre premiered Richard Bean’s Up On Roof in March 2006
o Up on Roof was nominated for the 2006 TMA Award for Best New Play
o Richard Bean’s play Harvest (premiered at The Royal Court in September 2005 and won the 2006 Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play
o Richard Bean is currently adapting Harvest for Touchpaper/Channel 4