Stan’s Cafe Theatre Company presents an Edinburgh Festival preview performance of The Home of the Wriggler – a lo-fi sci-fi docu drama on Thursday 13th August (doors 7.30pm, show 8.00pm).

Set in 3006, in an underground location, away from the raging weather, Home of the Wriggler opens an investigation into pollution and global warming that has become gridlocked.  The prosecution and defence teams having lost focus and power generations ago.  Procedure has gone way out of the window and the irregular has become highly regular.  Today the enquiry will continue to learn the legends of a place called the West Midlands, the people who lived there and the mythical things they once made called cars.

Stan’s Cafe started making Home of the Wriggler in 2005.  Whilst still in the planning stage, the Longbridge car plant closed and the show took on a different, more reflective tone.  Despite this the show isn’t a requiem, it is a celebration of all the people whose lives were and still are enmeshed in the Midland’s motor industry.  Set in a world where oil has run out, the cast generate all the power the show requires live on stage using a range of ageing technologies.

Based on interviews with former Rover employees, it concentrates on how the plant was woven into the community, contrasting the detal on individual’s lives with the big sweep of history an economic ‘progress’.  It is clever, funny, engaging, and doesn’t tell its audiences what to think or believe.

Stan’s Cafe started working at A.E Harris for the staging of their acclaimed show Of All The People in All The World, which used 116 tonnes of rice to describe the world.  The theatre company moved into this disused part of the metalworking in January 2009 and Home of the Wriggler will be the first of a number of shows produced by the company in the space over the next two years.  The space will also be available for visiting companies and one off spectaculars with the aim of adding to the already thriving artistic community in the hear of Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter. 

Tickets are £10.00 (£7.00 Concessions) and can either be bought at the door, or reserved by visiting admin@stanscafe.co.uk.  For more information visit www.stanscafe.co.uk.

Stan’s Cafe at A.E Harris
110 Northwood Street
Birmingham
B3 1SZ