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23 May – 14 June
absolutely frank
by Tim Firth

running time: 2 hours 15 minutes (including a 20 minute interval)

a comedy on the edge of a building

Meet Frank Tollit – Head of Installation. From forty foot IKEAs to five foot COMETs, Frank is in charge of putting giant letters on the sides of buildings.

But Frank has dreams - and he’s always longed to work with smaller letters, writing spy novels. Stories of danger and disaster fill his imagination, until the day these things start to happen for real.

On a third floor ledge, in front of the fire escape, with a sixty foot drop below, something incredible happens and Frank starts to learn the greatest lesson in life.

Don’t miss the London premiere of this hilarious comedy written by the author of last year’s hit Neville’s Island; the films Calendar Girls and Kinky Boots and TV series All Quiet on the Preston Front.

Captioned performance - Wednesday 4 June at 8pm - Captioned by Hannah Dunton
Sign Language Interpreted performance - Wednesday 11 June at 8pm - Interpreted by Jeni Draper
Audio Described performance - Saturday 14 June at 2.30pm - Described by Hannah Dunton

Artistic Credits Director: Matthew Lloyd Designer: Rodney Ford Lighting Designer: Matthew Eagland Sound Designer: Steve Mayo

production photographs

The Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch in association with PW Productions Ltd
Frank Barry McCarthy	Alan Rowan Schlosberg

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