Apples and Pears Programme
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Thank you so much for coming to this Apples and Pears!
We would like to thank Hypha Studios, Bristol Improv Theatre and Tobacco Factory Theatres for all their support in making Apples and Pears the night that it is.
See below for more info on our lovely acts!
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How to Break Up with your Friends
How to Break Up With Your Friends is an experimental new play with a "choose your own adventure" twist, that allows the audience to pick the order of its scenes at random –meaning t's never the same show twice! When four friends reunite for a weekend to honour their late friend, they must confront their tangled past and uncertain future. This new piece explores the unique pain of losing friends in your 20s and the heartbreak of growing apart from those who know you best.
Bridget Odette (she/her) is a Canadian theatre-maker, poet and screenwriter. Making her directorial debut in the 2016 Sears Drama Festival, Odette won awards for her direction of the Canadian comedy Bittergirl. After completing her MFA at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London UK, Bridget has continued her work in theatre, the small screen and radio. Bridget’s work primarily focuses on magical realism, empathetic perspectives and her ever-growing relationship to the body and gender.
Wicket Women
Spring 1934. News arrives at a local cricket club. A national women's cricket team is being formed for the very first time to play an inaugural Test Cricket match in Australia. Applications are open. This is an unbelievable opportunity for female cricketers to pursue their sporting passions to new heights. However, family duty, feminist pressures, love, money and other constraints muddle the choice of whether to go or stay. As the match approaches, each woman must grapple with what they want in life and what they're willing to sacrifice for it.
Laura Graham and Eliza Kilburn are South West-based theatre makers aiming to give voice to modern struggles in distant settings through a blend of poetic dialogue and storytelling through physical movement. For this piece they have collaborated with performers from Bristol School of Acting.
How to Break Up with your Friends
Florence is ageing out of OnlyFans. Mabel is trying to build a corporate career. When Florence’s fanbase turns and Mabel’s career falls apart, they devise a get rich quick scheme. But they must decide whether monetising their bodies is truly empowering or just makes them puppets of the patriarchy. Directed by Phoebe Mulcahy. Written by India Rodgers.
India is a critically acclaimed playwright based in Bristol, who has had her writing produced both nationally and internationally, including by Eclectic Full Contact Theatre (Chicago, USA), Edinburgh Fringe and Tobacco Factory Theatre. India was nominated for an Off-Fest award for her play He Wears It Well, which did a full run at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2023. Most recently, India showcased an extract of her play Girls Just Wanna Have Funds at Bristol Old Vic as part of their Artists Forum Programme.
Phoebe first met India in 2022. Since then, they have collaborated on new scripts, enjoyed theatre together, been to the fringe, celebrated together, and created a wonderful friendship. Phoebe first read Girls Just Wanna Have Funds just over 2 years ago. She devoured the play in an evening without moving from the sofa and has been hooked ever since.
Sometimes We Wear Shirts
An improv sketch show. We defiantly know what we are doing and have something to show this lovely audience.
Created by Jack Lord and Gabe Foley
Dani's Inferno
Dani's Inferno is a new musical comedy exploring the relationship between human desire and the climate crisis. London is flooding. Dani is running through the city, trying to get people to safety, when she stumbles upon a house party full of people who have no idea.
In this debut show from writer, songwriter and performer Charlotte Eyres, we follow Dani into the inferno where ASOS, anger and ambivalence collide in the space between our desire to live and the realisation that our desires might just be the thing that's killing us. Charlotte Eyres trained at Goldsmiths and Mountview and has since worked with Leeds Playhouse, NT Studio, BBC Radio Wales, Zoo Co, Extant, Theatre503 and Camden People's Theatre.