Together in Electric Dreams More dates October, @the Lass

[DPrinny]

That thing I have been baiting for the last few months.
This is it

Together in Electric Dreams;

Together in Electric Dreams is coming back to the Lass O'Gowrie! For nine performances throughout October as part of the Replay Expo and the Manchester Science Festival.

For those of you who don't know, it's a comedy drama based on the true story of the 1980s business deal between (future Lord) Alan Sugar and Sir Clive Sinclair, produced to tie in with the 30th anniversary of Sir Clive's most famour invention, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer. "A concept which could have been quite dry and boring has had a brilliant sense of fun and intrigue injected into it... the writing was strong and the two main performers were extremely engaging." - Tracey Lowe, http://www.thepublicreviews.com.

Wednesday 10th October - 6pm and 8pm
Thursday 11th October - 6pm and 8pm
Saturday 13th October (special Replay Expo Matinee) - 12.30pm
Monday 29th October - 6.30pm and 8.30pm
Wednesday 31st October (happy Halloween) - 6.30pm and 8.30pm
Only time we could get the actors for it was Saturday afternoon
12:30pm on the Saturday, strictly limited to 35 tickets, first come first served.

Tickets will be available from http://www.wegottickets.co.uk

[the_hawk]

Sweet flipping Christ-a-mass I'M IN!

[Antiriad2097]

Based on the BBC show from last year?

[DreamcastRIP]

Is it about Alan Turing too then?

[woody.cool]

Sounds good!
Keep us posted with details please, I wouldn't mind seeing this.

[prof peach]

Based on the BBC show from last year?

Nope. Apart from the fact Micro Men was primarily about Chris Curry and Sinclair and finished in 1985 (broadly mirroring the Sinclair Story book, by coincidence), this is set a year later in 1986 and concerns the deal between Sir Clive and Alan Sugar that saw the sale of the Sinclair computers. Empire's end, if you like.

And no, Alan Turing isn't in it. That's the photographer being arty....

[Antiriad2097]

You are of course quite correct, I don't know why I thought that had anything to do with Amstrad.

Filmed and available to view online later?

[prof peach]

Probably not available online to be honest, although we may be back with it for Replay weekend.

[DPrinny]

Any chance of a sticky?
Or is it going to be a case of "no point"

[DPrinny]

On threw out July

Lass O'Gowrie Productions is the acclaimed in-house development studio of Manchester's award-winning Lass O'Gowrie.
Sir Clive Sinclair, inventor of the pocket calculator and the Sinclair ZX81 (the first ever personal computer), was Britain's pioneer entrepreneur-boffin and a constant innovator in electronics. But by 1986 the bottom was falling out of the British electronics industry and to save his ailing company Sir Clive was forced to strike a desperate deal with arch-rival Amstrad - the new big name in home computing started by one Alan Sugar.
Together in Electric Dreams spotlights the tense and tactical dinner-date between the two business kingpins as they each try to secure the advantage while enjoying supper in a traditional Japanese restaurant. Funny and poignant, it's a revealing look at a little-known historical encounter, and a portrait of two apparently different men who found themselves fighting over the same turf and changing millions of lives in the process.
Ticket Price : £6.00

More info here

[greenberet79]

What's Clive Sinclair up to these days?

[TwoHeadedBoy]

On threw out July

That link's only telling me 4th July, just a one-day thing?

[DPrinny]

Others are listed if you poke about.

Ones like there Porridge adaptation thats gonna be good

[SirClive]

I saw the 'Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads' production there a couple of weeks ago. Was aces. Definitely going to see this one.

[DPrinny]

I saw the 'Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads' production there a couple of weeks ago. Was aces. Definitely going to see this one.

Porridge is on next month as well
they have done a few plays in the past, none have disappointed, trying to get them to do another horror based one