| Epsom Downs | Wednesday 13 – Friday 15 April 2005
MAC Youth Theatre present Epsom Downs by Howard Brenton
Theatre, 7.30pm.
Tickets £6.50 (£4.50)
For bookings and information contact MAC Information & Ticket Office on
0121 440 3838, minicom 0121 440 4923 |
MAC Youth Theatre return to the stage for the first time since their acclaimed production of Singer in the Autumn of last year. With local director Ruth Harrell at the helm this promises to be an unmissable and highly charged evening’s entertainment.  | | Mother and crying child |
Commissioned and first performed in 1977, Epsom Downs charts the fortunes of a host of characters during Derby Day in Silver Jubilee year. Howard Brenton skilfully weaves a complex tapestry of stories together into a satirically comic drama about life in Britain during a time of social upheaval and change. Epsom Downs is a dynamic, fast moving and political comic drama which traces the fortunes of a huge number of characters. In two hours, twenty or so members of MAC's youth theatre, aged between 14 – 18 years old, will take on around eighty roles between them.  | | Young love at the derby |
From drunken Labour peers through stable boys and the Aga Khan himself to a homeless family living in a dormobile, there is rarely time to catch breath as the play builds towards it’s gripping climax and the race itself comes to life on the stage. MAC Youth Theatre’s revival of this modern classic promises to capture all of the drama, energy and fun of a day at the Races. | 
