International EDINBURGH PREVIEWS
Monday 19 June
Doors: Doors 8pm 1st Show - 8.30pm 2nd Show 9.45pm
Tickets: £7/5 Available from http://www.wegottickets.com/location/1003
A chance to catch two full shows for less
than the price of one before they go up to the Edinburgh Festival. We aim to recreate the true Edinburgh
experience – no audience, no pay for the acts, great fun! We have an enviable record in predicting the
big-hit shows before they win awards
STEVE GRIBBIN
SHUNTED
AGAIN!
Tormented
train traveller & sit-down (when he can get a seat) comedian Steve Gribbin
rails
against
the current state of Britain’s Obscenely Expensive Railway System, using some
of
his
very worst journeys as examples. Like the anti-Michael Portillo, Steve takes us
on a Rail
Rage
(de)tour of cancellations, delays and overcrowding that’s enough to drive you
to drive.
But
he doesn’t stop there (it’s not scheduled): Steve shunts back into History to
acknowledge
the
immense social change that the trains have brought, from the adoption of
"railway time”
(not
an oxymoron) in the 1840s to the so-called ‘Narcopolis Express’ that
transported the
dead
out of London (also known as Southern Rail).
The
show will be a mixture of stand-up, songs, poetry, sound effects and train
announcements,
as Steve examines all aspects of the railways, from Beeching to Brunel,
from
Steam (H2O) to HS2, from Here to Eternity (also known as travelling on a
Sunday).
There
will also be audience participation as Steve asks the audience to relate their
nightmare
rail journeys, and even a personal dimension, as Steve’s Great Grandfather
William
Wallace (no, not that one) was a Wheeltapper & Shunter knocked over and
killed at
Liverpool
Lime Street Station in 1930.
There
will be plenty of songs, from the funereal Blues lament of "Slow Train From
Burgess
Hill”,
the jaunty power pop of "Excuses Excuses”, the 21
st
Worksong
cum Sea Shanty set in
a
modern Call Centre "Call Away, Boys, Call Away”, the Northern Platform Soul
tribute to
Trainspotters,
"Let’s go ‘Spotting’!” and finally the Gospel Hallelujah of "The People’s
Train!”
The
show also looks at the train-wreck that was Rail Privatisation in 1997, and the
ensuing
sheer
grinding frustration of modern rail travel.
Turns
out the three most difficult words in the English Language are NOT: "I Love
You”, but
"Bus
Replacement Service”.
STEVE
GRIBBIN "SHUNTED!”
DUE
JANUARY 2017: EXPECTED: JUNE 2017
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Mary Bourke
,
Steve Gribbin