A STORY of friendship, love and loneliness, set on the dark side of the moon, Where Do All The Dead Pigeons Go, will be staged at Bedales Theatre, Steep.
It is the debut solo show of Teesside-born Scott Turnbull who premiered it with a run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2016, followed by its first national tour.
The hero, Darren Smith, is disillusioned with life on earth. After losing his dog and his girlfriend he applies to become first technician aboard Moon-base 1 – a telecommunications tower on the dark side of the moon. His job is to send messages into the great unknown and wait for any intergalactic response.
The first two years fly by but as interest in the space station wanes, time begins to take its toll. Darren shows increasing signs of stress, loneliness and depression – and he starts acting peculiarly.
In response NASA send him a computerised companion with an average IQ of 1,000 and the built-in personality programme of Darren’s childhood hero – former Middlesbrough FC captain Tony Mowbray.
Pigeons is a twisted parody of Stanley Kubrick’s A 2001 Space Odyssey. It is funny, imaginative and heart breaking.
Where Do All The Dead Pigeons Go? is on Tuesday, September 19, at 7.30pm. Tickets are £12 and £10 concessions. Visit www.bedales.org.uk/event/where-do-all-dead-pigeons-go