On Saturdays this bed is Poland
Touring 26 April - 2 June
'Now, what we do. We put your things here, by the window. You can have the bed on Saturdays. I will have it Sundays, and we will make this place a little bit of home'
In the fields and factories of Lincolnshire everybody knew Marek; he was the big-hearted hero of a thousand migrant workers, and when he was killed on an unmarked crossing that summer they mourned his passing. Then Mirka got off a bus from Poland looking for her brother and everything started to change.
Julie Wilkinson's gripping new play is inspired by the lives of the migrant workers she met in the fields and factories of Lincolnshire. It tells the extraordinary, funny, tragic story of three women thrown together miles from home, a teenage boy's first summer of love, and the single bed across which battle lines are drawn as a hundred years of history and htred threaten to tear their worlds apart.
On Saturdays this Bed is Poland is a beautifully observed human drama inspired by a wicked sense of fun, shot through with a haunting musical score, and played out on our dynamic now 'in-the-round' staging - yet another captivating new show from New Perspectives, the East Midlands' favourite rural touring theatre company.
Running time 2 hours
Recommended for 14+ years
The play is touring throughout the East Midlands during May and June. You can download a tour schedule or visit the New Perspectives Website to find out more at www.newperspectives.co.uk
last updated: 26-04-2007 14:39