Manchester theatre and arts venue 53two kicks of its spring season with new play A Pineapple (April 23-May3), taking audiences on a trip to the future and asking: what will our lives be like? Will global warming finally take hold? Who will be in power? What will we eat?
Decades into the future, the planet is rocked by a perpetual storm caused by global warming. Survivors live in pods that match their wealth, in isolation, awaiting gradual extinction.
The pod is all Nia has ever known, and when her grandmother Connie decides her time might be coming to an end, the isolation ends and an unexplored world is unlocked...
Actor, writer and composer Olivia Mace received the Phoebe Frances Brown Award for A Pineapple and 53two's 150-year-old arches offer a suitably bunker-like vibe.
The venue creative director, Simon Naylor, said; ‘‘A Pineapple is unlike anything I’ve read before. Olivia has managed to create a truthful world in a fictional future, one that is so multi-layered it’s one of the most gripping plays I’ve ever read. It's perfect for 53two; it will propel us to the next step in producing new writing."
For A Pineapple the theatre is supported by the Dukes Lancaster and Huddersfield's Lawrence Batley Theatre. The Manchester venue takes a show on the road for the first time – not surprisingly to Huddersield on May 7 and Lancaster on May 8-9.