IT’S grim up north, so the saying goes.
Well a Halifax-based theatre company is going further north with tales of life in West Yorkshire.
Offering a refreshingly different perspective on the familiarly grim Northern kitchen sink theatre of flat caps, black pudding and gloom, The Historians is a hilarious, moving and honest exploration of female friendship.
And ‘Chucker and Mucker’ appear at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this summer.
They promise a unique piece of writing, which catches the rhythms, wit and poetry inherent in the West Yorkshire tongue and places them into mouths where we might not, at first, expect to find them.
These apparent tearaway teenagers reveal an intelligence and insightfulness that stereotyping denies them.
Despite running amok, terrorising Woolworths, traumatising pets and decimating dance floors, they demonstrate a fierce pride in themselves and their town.
As circumstances begin to take their lives down different paths, we see them discover fragility at the heart of the strongest friendship.
Chucker and Mucker are played by Katharine Markwick and Susanna Hislop, two talented comedic actors and rising stars with backgrounds in physical theatre, clowning and comedy, who have brought work to the EdFringe with great success since 2007.
It is directed by Delyth Jones and comes from Halifax-based Hot Ice Theatre, a new production company founded by writer and performer Katharine Markwick.
They’ll be at Edinburgh’s Belly Dancer, Underbelly, Venue 61 until August 28.
For more details visit www.underbelly.co.uk.
