Award winning Pipeline theatre take Kindertransport play on UK tour

Following the success of their 5* 2015 Edinburgh hit Spillikin, (nominated for the Carol Tambor “Best of the Fringe” award), Cornwall’s Pipeline Theatre revives its debut play Transports for a national tour in Spring 2016.

The play - described by the Cornish Guardian as “brave, bold and brilliant” - tells the story of a volatile teenager who is shunted from one foster home to another in the 1970s, until she finds her new carer - an eccentric chatterbox, who keeps her Kindertransport past buried in a trunk.  As youth plays cat and mouse with age, their stories collide with devastating consequences.

Weaving film and an evocative underscore,Transports, by turns funny and moving, is a journey not quickly forgotten. In a world where our media is full of images of a new refugee migration, Transports takes in the last great refugee crisis of WW2, to look at the consequences of displacement, both geographical and emotional, through the eyes of two mismatched individuals.

Pipeline Theatre is a an emerging company consisting of four experienced practitioners, with credits including Miracle Theatre, Cube Theatre, English Touring Opera, The Citizen’s Theatre, Plymouth Theatre Royal. They have a growing reputation for addressing serious, potentially difficult yet universally relevant subjects in a moving, humorous and totally engrossing way.

Transports is on national tour 19 January - 26 March 2016 with a London press night 1 March at Pleasance Theatre.

TOUR DATES www.pipelinetheatre.com

January 29th 2016 – January 30th 2016, Ustinov Studio, Bath Theatre Royal, Bath

February 2nd 2016, Forest Arts Centre, Hampshire

February 3rd 2016, Talbot Theatre, Whitchurch

February 4th 2016, SPaRCs Theatre, Bishops Castle

February 5th 2016, The Courtyard Theatre, Hereford

February 6th 2016, The Old Fire Station, Oxford

February 12th 2016, Wadebridge Town Hall, Wadebridge

February 19th 2016, The Acorn Arts Centre, Penzance

February 20th 2016, Grampound Village Hall, Cornwall

February 21st 2016, Maker with Rame Community Hall, Cornwall

February 26th 2016, Derby Theatre, Derby

February 28th 2016 – March 12th 2016, Pleasance Theatre, London

March 15th 2016, Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury

March 18th 2016, Mullion School, Cornwall

March 19th 2016, The Poly, Falmouth

March 22nd 2016, Farnham Maltings, Surrey

March 23rd 2016, Ashcroft Arts Centre, Fareham

March 24th 2016 - March 26th 2016, Salisbury Playhouse, Salisbury