Wednesday 13th – Saturday 16th August

Wednesday to Saturday @ 8pm, plus a 1pm show on Thursday and Friday.

Sight nor Sound Theatre presents

The Good Crank

by Alan McMonagle

The Good Crank is a one-person comedy-drama presented in the voice of a woman certain in her belief that she is never going to die.

Kitty Clogg lives by herself in Single Street, the oldest street in town. She’ll say hello to tomorrow when it arrives, but she’s still got a little time for yesterday.

She’s also got a few people in her head. There’s neighbour Phyllis, who has suddenly become aware of her mortality and seems determined to ply Kitty with industrial quantities of questionable wine.

There’s neighbour Jack, self-anointed inventor of the iPod and never slow to remind Kitty about what a crank she is. There’s ex-Yoga master turned cowboy builder, who is keen to throw up an apartment complex in the field out back of Kitty’s house.

Then there’s the mystery of what happened to the one and only man in Kitty’s life. Here one day, gone the next, and without so much as a thank you for the memories.

Treading a blurry line between humour and pathos; yearning and farce; belonging and marginalisation, The Good Crank is an exploration of the flip-flop existence of an older woman at odds with the world she has grown into.

Performed by Rose Henderson
Directed by Gorretti Slavin