PORT Tickets and Dates

PORT by Simon Stephens ★ ★ ★ ★ Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, Mail on Sunday, Sunday Express, Sunday Times, The Times 'Breathtaking... This is a play that lifts the spirits and leaves you full of hope.' Guardian 'Bleakly brilliant... As unbearably sad as it is beautiful." Sunday Express 'Stephens puts social realism into poetic flight.' The Times Booking Period Dates between Thursday 24th January to Sunday 24th March 2013 Suitable for 15yrs+. Strong language throughout. Running time approx 2hrs 20mins including interval Stockport, 1988. It's midnight. Rachel, eleven, and Billy, six, wait in the car in agitated excitement. Their mother is at her wits' end with all their chatter and fighting and dreams of Disneyland. She is about to leave them for good. Their father, drunk in the flat above, has locked the door. It's a pivotal moment, the beginning of a thirteen-year odyssey for two kids, largely abandoned and growing up in the deprived suburban shadows of Manchester, a city that felt itself to be the most exciting in the world. I see you in the morning, on the first morning I stayed over at your house. Waking up. Watching you lying asleep next to me. You looked, you looked. It was like. I think about that more than you probably think I do. A richly colourful portrait of a town with the everyday writ large, Simon Stephens' Port is a celebration of the human spirit as Rachel, through sheer courage and despite an economic and political climate that pushes her into the very margins, looks to the future and opts for love and life and for something better. He don't do drugs. Nowt like that. He just. He really tries. I hope. This is a very big chance for him. I hope he doesn't fuck things up this time. I hope he'll be alright. Access performances Captioned performances Sat 23 Feb at 2.15pm, Sun 3 Mar at 3pm Audio-Described performances Fri 15 Feb at 7.30pm, Sat 16 Feb at 2.15pm (Touch Tour at 12.45pm)