If you are looking for a bit of culture and lots of fun during the Easter holidays, look no further than our own Mitre Theatre which is hosting The Mitre Players’ latest production of the multi award-winning, quirky musical Urinetown.
Running from Wednesday 9 April until Saturday 12 April at 7.30pm (with a Saturday matinee only at 5.00pm), and tickets at £18 each, it’s a great opportunity to catch award-winning musical theatre by an award-winning society.
The Mitre Players is the dramatic society for former students of Trinity, though open to all, and the Director (Paul Grace), Musical Director (Robert Randall) and many key cast and crew of Urinetown are all Trinity alumni.
Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critic’s Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards, and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is a hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself! Hilariously funny and touchingly honest, it provides a fresh perspective of one of America’s greatest art forms.
In a Gotham-like city, a terrible water shortage, caused by a 20-year drought, has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The citizens must use public amenities, regulated by a single malevolent company that profits by charging admission for one of humanity’s most basic needs. Amid the people, a hero decides he’s had enough and plans a revolution to lead them all to freedom!
Inspired by the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, Urinetown is an irreverently humorous satire in which no one is safe from scrutiny. Praised for reinvigorating the very notion of what a musical could be, Urinetown catapults the “comedic romp” into the new millennium with its outrageous perspective, wickedly modern wit, and sustained ability to produce gales of unbridled laughter.
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