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I love Vinegar Vera set for Joshua Brooks, Manchester

Cut to the Chase Productions present a new piece of site specific work written by Nadia Drews and directed by Jen Heyes.  Politics, poetry and a pint are combined in one unique theatrical event at Joshua Brooks, Manchester next month.
 
I Love Vinegar Vera (What becomes of the Broken-hearted) is the second play written by new Manchester playwright Nadia Drews, her first production Occupational Therapy was performed at Studio Salford in 2007.  The play is directed by Liverpool based Jen Heyes who has previously directed Blood Wedding, Walk Talks, Misery and Therese Raquin.

Joe Whiteside is the pencilled portrait on the back of the beer mat. Vinegar Vera is gossip and rumour. They are both characters born out of the myth and legend of working class communities but they are both skin and bone. Their eyes meet across the crowded room of a backstreet pub and it is love at first sight, that the community of regulars can’t see working out. 

I Love Vinegar Vera defends the right of all people to be vulnerable and all vulnerable people to be given their rights. It challenges all the judgement callers, Kyles and Cowells and all others alike... to care. It calls out to all lost souls and soul fans. It calls for an end to the condemnation. Does the chancer deserve to be given a second chance?  Should we all be given the benefit of the doubt? Come to the pub and see the regulars as you have never seen them before.

I Love Vinegar Vera is at Joshua Brooks in Manchester from 1- 5 November. 

- by Glenn Meads

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