GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY
This show was commissioned by New Model Theatre in 2015 and developed with support from Beaford and Arts Council England, touring for 5 years.
In the early hours of Thursday 8 August 1963, the heist of the century is under way. Signals are scrambled, phone lines cut and millions of pounds of cash stolen. Five days later the first clues are found, the gang is busted and the rest is history. But what about the ones that got away?
Using a raucous combination of physical theatre, live music and clowning, Scratchworks will unfold the untold tale of the four feisty forgotten females from the Great Train Robbery, as they leave behind their kitchen-sink lives and embark on a madcap adventure of mischief and mayhem.
2020 Touring Cast
One - Laura Doble
Two - Charlie Warner
Three - Alice Higginson-Clarke
You - Alison Cowling
Original Cast
One - Laura Doble
Two - Sian Keen
Three - Alice Higginson-Clarke
You - Hanora Kamen
Music created collaboratively with Hanora Kamen
Great Train Robbery was made in 2015 and toured to venues including Salisbury Playhouse, Brighton Fringe, VAULT Festival, Beautiful Days, Greenwich Theatre, Barbican Theatre, Wardrobe Theatre and many more.
Awards
VAULT’s 2017 Festival Spirit Award - Winner
IYAF: Best of Brighton Fringe 2017 - Nominated
reviews
“This is a great show that can be enjoyed by all the family – and you might even learn something on the way.”
★★★★ Broadway Baby
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“Inventive and intelligent physical theatre… Wondrously enjoyable.”
★★★★ Theatre Bubble
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“An ingenious mix of clowning, physical theatre and wonderful singing”
Fringe Review - Recommended Show
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“Genuinely funny… an engaging performance.”
★★★★ The Peg Review
“At the end of the show, as the cast took their much-deserved final bows, I realised I had just seen a production with minimal use of props, no scenery and only four cast-members. They painted a picture so clearly and with so little that the show was a marvel to behold. The Great Train Robbery is a must-see.”
Plymouth Herald