Orphans Archives - North West End UK

Over the last few years, Lisa and Colin Connor have quietly built something special in the small pub theatre above the King’s Arms on Bloom Street. As the area rapidly succumbs to gentrification all around it, this beacon of Salfordian working-class culture continues to produce exciting and interesting work, giving voice and opportunity for local creative stage talent to shine. This superb run of form continues with a blistering new production of ‘Orphans’, the 2009 piece by Dennis Kelly exploring urban violence and the moral quandaries that family obligations place us under. Helen (Hollie-Jay Bowes) and Danny (Ryan Clayton) have managed to unload their five-year-old son Shane onto Danny’s mum for the evening and are relaxing into a well-deserved date night together, Helen has discovere...

It’s the night before Rose Flynn’s funeral, and her children need to come to terms with their loss. Now they’ll face the future without their mother, but they need her more than ever. Eldest son Thomas grips onto his façade as family rock by guarding Rose’ coffin all night in the church. Michael has been stabbed in a pub brawl and must keep awake all night or else he’ll succumb to his potentially fatal injury. John wants revenge for his brother’s stabbing and Sheila has one last night of freedom before she becomes the new matriarch to her troubled brotherly trio. Orphans is a hilarious black comedy, that confronts life’s questions head on, directed by Scottish theatre treasure, Cora Bisset. It’s a joyful celebration of the stages of grief, of the connection of family and the importance ...

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Orphans – King’s Arms Theatre

Orphans – King’s Theatre, Edinburgh