Mikron Theatre – Performance in Heritage Quay
Tue, 28 Mar 2017 01:50:00 BST
The latest show from the award-winning waterways theatre company is a hike through the history of hostelling. This is your chance to see one of Mikron’s fabulous 2017 shows. This year, the show’s mix of comedy and music features that much loved organisation: the Youth Hostel Association.
The event takes place on Wednesday 5 April, at 7.30pm in Heritage Quay.
You can purchase tickets from the Mikron website and a selected few may be available on the door on the night. To book please call 01484 843701 or email press@mikron.org.uk. Tickets cost £13 (£11 concessions). There’s a bar onsite, as well as Mikron’s shop with all new goodies for 2017.
About the event:
Appearing for the first time at Heritage Quay they promise to delight audiences with energetic, fresh and original tales of our national institutions and the social histories of everyday people. And this year it’s the turn of YHA (Youth Hostelling Association) to get the Mikron treatment; written by Maeve Larkin and directed by Marianne McNamara, Best Foot Forward traces the history of Youth Hostelling from its inception in 1911 in the mind of a young, German teacher-soldier who found himself in No Man's Land at the Christmas Truce, through to its founding in Britain in the 30s and right up-to-date with modern hostels still holding true to the founding ideals.
Something’s afoot at Pearling Manor and it isn’t just the walkers. The beautiful hostel, rich in YHA history, is lovely but falling apart. External forces are out to grab and turn it into a golf club.
Cue Connie, first ever warden, with a heart as big as her rucksack. She takes us on a journey through the YHA’s past in the hope of securing its future.
Through thickets and thin we’ve managed to keep, our promise of somewhere cheap to sleep, If that’s threatened we must defend it, Looking to the past in order to transcend it.
With harmonies, hills and humour, join Mikron on a hike through the history of hostelling.
