Culture

This week’s Lunchtime Theatre marked the birth of what will hopefully become an Allen Hall Theatre tradition; the Forty Hour Theatre competition.
Submissions and proposals were called for and two winners were chosen; their challenge was to make a 15-20 minute piece of theatre in only forty hours! With the assistance of Theatre Manager Martyn Roberts and a very understanding technical team, Luke Agnew, Maya Turei and Bronwyn Wallace scripted, mounted and performed their pieces of theatre within a forty hour period. Being part of the team that proposed this idea at the end of last year I was quietly sceptical about how it would all go but holy shit it was an extraordinary success. The two pieces, Lonely Hearts and She Walks in Beauty, were fantastic and surprisingly complementary.