An evening of Martin Roche Monologues – Two “One-Act” PlaysAncient & ModernStella is now of an age where she realises that she is from a different age. An age where the only companions she often has are recollections, memories and shadows of what was and what might have been.
Whilst she is sitting alone at home on Christmas Eve, waiting to go to midnight mass, she is unexpectedly forced to consider her life and the two worlds she inhabits – both ancient and modern. As she sits waiting for her taxi to arrive, her perceptions of her life gently and unwittingly collide with humour and sincerity and the collisions cause wholly unexpected personal revelations to appear.
Albeit quicker than Stuart from ‘Speedy Taxi Cabs.’
Last Bus to WhitbyBig Al is taking a bus journey to Whitby. It is a journey he has waited his whole life to take. He is an innocent abroad and clearly, an innocent to so much more. During his trip he speaks to an unseen fellow passenger about his journey and unsurprisingly, as is the case with so many passengers, he talks about more than the view. As his journey twists and turns, so do his disclosures and eventually, the reason for it is laid bare, as is his life and his plans for it. Last Bus to Whitby is a play about resonance and honesty with oneself; about finding peace. It explores in a gentle, innocent and bygone way, how happiness and self-fulfilment do not, for some, require other people or wealth to make them a reality. All it sometimes needs is a stranger to listen and the opportunity to talk. And clarity of mind can be found in the most surprising of places. Even on the 840 bus to Whitby.
20th Oct – 21st Oct 2023SHOWS START AT 7:30pm and will finish about 9:30pm. Bar will be open from 6:45pm to past 11:00pm
Both one act plays are presented by arrangement with Martin Paul Roche.
