The Customs House, South Shields

Dates:
Wednesday 18 Mar 2009 Time: 7.30pm & Thursday 19th 7.30 and 2.30, Friday 20th and Saturday 21st at 7.30 pm

Price: £12, £10conc – SPECIAL OFFER – All tickets £7.50 first night, £5 students.

The Customs House is delighted to welcome back Tom Kelly with his new play that looks at love and war.

Grandfather and Grandson fought sixty years apart but their experiences are all too similar.

The grandfather, Tommy, is based on the playwright’s father, a German prisoner-of-war in World War Two. His experiences contrast sharply with the 1950 British film, ‘The Wooden Horse’.

The Grandson, Wayne, is a soldier in Iraq.

The impact of war is seen painfully in both men. What survives is their love.

Info from The Customs House Website
http://www.customshouse.co.uk/theatre-details.aspx?id=135

The play will be published by Red Squirrel Press
http://www.redsquirrelpress.com/index.php?dreamers

Tom Kelly

“Tom Kelly provides pathos and humour as John Sullivan does in the best of Fools and Horses” (Evening Chronicle).
In recent years the Customs House, South Shields, has produced a number of plays and musicals by Tom Kelly, including: Five By One, I Left My Heart In Roker Park, Baby Love, Family Ties, Dan Dare-The Musical with John Miles, directed by Ray Spencer which was staged in March 2003; Love in NE32 five short plays which broke box office records in September 2002; Secrets, four short plays staged in February 2002. Tom & Catherine (with John Miles & Ray Spencer) which sold out in 1999 and again in 2001.
In addition he has written The Blaydon Bricklayer on the life and times of Joseph Cowen for Blaydon Festival which was reprised and produced by Newcastle Council and the WEA in 2007.