A play by one if the UK’s most acclaimed young writers is coming to Bridport Arts Centre on 6 October, 8pm. Other Hands is by Laura Wade – who had a critically acclaimed sell-out run in London’s West End this summer with her latest play Posh.
Other Hands tells the story of a Hayley a high-flying management consultant whose eight-year-old relationship to Steve, a computer buff, is heading for the rocks. Steve is a freelance computer software expert who makes house calls to fix people’s computer systems, but can’t fix his own relationship.
Set among the thirty something generation Laura Wade’s play looks at the role technology plays in our lives and asks what do we do with something as messy as love in an age where we through away things that are broken.
This is the first professional revival of the play since it’s successful run at the Soho theatre since 2006. Vital Signs Theatre, have a reputation for high quality revivals of contemporary and classic plays. Their previous work includes sell-out London runs of Hamlet (the 1603 version), and Somerset Maugham’s For Services Rendered.
Other Hands is directed by James Bounds, a former staff director at the National Theatre. James also directed For Services Rendered for Vital Signs.
“This play shows that we can’t fix our lives as easily as we can fix our computers,” James Bounds, says. “Now that technology runs so much of our lives, it is easy to think that you can sort out a dysfunctional personal life as easily as you can mend a printer that’s on the blink. Other Hands tells a brilliant story, and our production is fun, sexy, and funny.”
Tickets are available from www.bridport-arts.com or Bridport Arts Centre box office £12/ £11 members/£10 concessions.