Return to stage for Aberdeen Arts Centre
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Aberdeen Arts Centre is producing its first professional in-house show since 2019 with a production of Arnold Ridley’s Easy Money.
Staged as a vintage radio play, the production will take to the arts centre’s stage in July with a cast of seven local professional actors.
Following closure from March 2020 due to Covid-19, Aberdeen Arts Centre has adapted its 350 seat auditorium into 30 two-metre socially distanced "pods" to safely seat up to 150 audience members.
The arts centre said it is committed to producing professional, accessible theatre for audiences in a safe and welcoming environment as other venues across the city remain closed due to ongoing restrictions.
Aberdeen Arts Centre’s manager Stephanie Walls describes the play as “gentle and funny” and is certain the Castlegate Arts Ltd production will make for a “lovely nostalgic night out” for local theatre-lovers.
She added: “After a difficult year and as Aberdeen Arts Centre starts to welcome socially distanced audiences back to the theatre, I wanted to put something on that was a piece of fluffy, light entertainment to give people a couple of hours of escapism.
"The show will be performed in a vintage radio studio style, with the actors in full costume. There will be a lot of silly humour including multi-rolling and sound effects live on stage.”
Aberdeen Arts Centre’s production company Castlegate Arts Ltd past productions include Cabaret (2016) with Lucas Rush and Carolyn Maitland, The Pillowman (2017), Company (2018) with Oliver Savile and Ashleigh Gray and 2019’s Aladdin in association with Talegate Theatre Productions.
Easy Money tells the story of the Stafford family who have been secretly doing the football pools – secretly because Grandma disapproves – but they will surely never win, will they?
Join the Castlegate Home Service, live on stage, as an array of professional talent present this comedy play by Dad’s Army’s Arnold Ridley.
Performed in a vintage radio studio style it is evocative of Round The Horne, What About Dick and The Play That Goes Wrong.
It will be performed at the arts centre on Friday, July 16 at 7.30pm and Saturday, July 17 at 2.30pm and 7.30pm.
Tickets can be purchased at www.aberdeenartscentre.com/easymoney
