IF YOU like your theatre to be dark and unsettling then there’s just the show for you in Huddersfield on June 5 and 6.
Not With That Hand in the Syngenta Cellar space at the Lawrence Batley Theatre on those nights tells a disturbing tale of two teachers who are living alone and in fear.
The pair have been banned from their profession and from any contact with children since the disappearance of a youngster 10 years before.
The two mark time by following a bizarre routine. It includes devising a school timetable and a teaching plan for Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible. Memories of the past resurface at unexpected moments.
The play was developed by director Paul Hunter, known for his work with Bolton Octagon and with the company Told By An Idiot, of which he was a co-founder in the early Nineties, working with actors Annie Fitzmaurice (Det Sgt Karen Williams in Emmerdale) and Erika Poole.
Together they formed a production company which they called Coal and the show was staged at last year’s 24:7 Festival at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester.
Billed as a dark comedy, this offers social comment and a surrealism that will perhaps discomfort some.
After its run at the Royal Exchange’s Studio Theatre Not With That Hand is on tour.
Performances at the LBT start at 7.45pm. Box office is on 01484 430528.
