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BBC News
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Felixstowe dock worker stories wanted to help inspire new play
A producer and playwright is looking for stories of dock workers to help bring a new theatre show to Goddard is working to find anyone who has worked at the Port of Felixstowe in Suffolk over the decades for a play called Don't Knock The play has been supported by Arts Council England, the county council and Eastern Angles and follows the lives of two 16-year-old friends who leave school and go on to work on the Goddard, who grew up in the town, said the play would celebrate stories of the workers over the years. "I know a lot of people who left school and went to work down the dock," she explained."It was the local industry, that's where people went."If we'd been living in a coal mining area they might have gone down the mines... it just happened to be the local place where everyone went to work."I've always thought that people don't really know enough of what goes on down there."But also I think those stories haven't been celebrated and there are so many people that work down there." Mrs Goddard and the team are predominantly looking for those who worked on the docks in the 1980s, but they were keen to hear from other decades well as this she stressed they wanted all types of workers to come forward including women whom she felt were important to include."I need more [stories]," she added."It doesn't have to be from the port perspective, it's anybody who worked down the dock, so that could be a shipping company, or a haulage company, a lorry driver, or people who worked in the other departments like the canteen, the firefighters, the police." Mrs Goddard has already begun collating stories and said there had been an "overriding theme of a sense of comradery" between the workers."Overwhelmingly they say they wouldn't have missed it for the world and they made such good friends," she continued."There's a lot of funny banter you get surrounding it, it's been really fun so far."Once the stories have been compiled the team, including director Ollie Harrington and sound designer Jack Baxter, will use these to draft the will then be two public script readings where people will be able to give feedback before the play will then hopefully be put on tour. Follow Suffolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Edinburgh hit one-man play BUFF coming to town
A one-man play about body image and social media jealousy is coming to Ipswich. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe hit, "BUFF," will be performed at Eastern Angles on Saturday, May 31, as part of its UK tour. The play, written by Ben Fensome and directed by Scott Le Crass, tells the story of a plus-sized, gay, primary school teacher who sublets his flat to an Instagram model after a break-up. The play explores themes of dating, 'hook-up culture', and the harsh realities of online apps for people like the protagonist, played by Jamal Franklin. BUFF will be performed at Eastern Angles on May 31 (Image: Kieran Vyas Photography) Ben Fensome said: "BUFF came out of a discussion Scott and I had about contemporary LGBTQ theatre and who usually gets featured in those stories, which actors get cast, what marketing usually looks like, etc. "We wanted to explore a character that we hadn't seen be centred before, and out of that discussion, our character in BUFF was born. "We've been really blown away by the response from LGBTQ audiences who have related to us how they haven't really seen a character be centred like this particularly in queer theatre. "I hope it is a call out for the community to look out for each other more, and the centre point of that is, of course, the ability to love and accept ourselves." The tour, presented by Emmerson and Ward Productions, will also visit Birmingham, Harrogate, Bath, Sale, Lancaster, Leicester, Banbury, Nottingham, Hull, Newcastle, and Bristol. Tickets for the Ipswich show can be purchased from the Eastern Angles website. The show is advised for audiences aged 15 and over with tickets costing £12 each. The tour is supported by Curve and Arts Council England.
