SOAPBOX RACER

by Ben Schwarz

Directed by Rosie Bowden

TUES 25 TH APRIL – SAT 13 TH MAY

Time: 7:30pm plus 1:00pm

Saturday matinees

Tickets:

Pay What You Feel (25th – 29th April)

£15 – £3 (2nd – 13th May)

Age Recommendation: 12+

Access: Captioned performance

Wednesday 3rd May

Audio Described performance

Wednesday 10th May tickets: alphabettitheatre.co.uk

All Saturday matinee performances will be relaxed.

A PLAY ABOUT TEENAGE LOVE, LOSS AND FINDING YOUR INNER DAREDEVIL.

Kay is building a soapbox car in her dad’s garage as a Grand Gesture. When the love of your life dumps you for your best (and only) friend, do you sit down and take it? No! You race down a hill in a matchbox with wheels decorated with their love-notes and mushy doodles and invite them to watch! That’ll definitely win both of them back! Won’t it?

Soapbox Racer is the story of a teenage girl building a soapbox car in a wild attempt to win back her ex, accidentally reconnecting with her estranged Dad in the process, and finding her inner daredevil.

WINNER BEST THEATRE PRODUCTION AT BUXTON FRINGE

“AN UTTERLY CHARMING PLAY, A FUNNY SCRIPT, CARRIED OFF WITH GREAT APLOMB BY A WONDERFUL PERFORMER. I’D RECOMMEND IT TO ANYONE”

 FRINGE GURU

Soapbox Racer was originally produced by Ameena Hamid, Louisa Sanfey, and Ben Schwarz. It was performed in 2019 at the Local Theatre in Sheffield and the Buxton Fringe, starring Grace Cordell, and directed by Louisa Sanfey. The set and costume was designed by Connie Burley, with sound design from Sam Glossop, and was stage managed by Becky Brown and Andrea Scrimshaw.

Come and build a soapbox car with us! Sign up via our website – you will have three days across three weeks to build your soapbox cars (Saturday afternoons 22nd April – 6th May 14:00 – 18:00) with a time trial competition on Saturday 13th May 16:00 – 18:00. Grab your family, your handiest friends, or go it alone and build a car to rival Kay’s!

Alphabetti Theatre & Degna Stone present a WORLD PREMIERE of