Pub Theatre night 3 December 2009

Tonight we went to the pub at The Royal Exchange Theatre. The studio was remarkably transformed into a realistic pub, complete with a functioning bar, pool table and darts board. We sat at tables dotted around the room while the actors, who were also dotted around the room, discussed their experiences of fatherhood. After the interval (during which we played dominoes) the flirting and agressive behaviour so often seen in pubs were cleverly re-enacted by three actors. The flirting was quite entertaining but the violence of a man to his girlfriend was rather horrific and left most of us in stunned silence. I would have preferred to have been on one of the nights with some light-hearted stand-up comedy and live music but it's always good to experience something new. It was certainly a novel idea that gave us something to think about.