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We’re in Hartlepool. It’s a town in North East England, it’s a former dockland, and it’s 70% Leave. It’s also under attack.

When Aidan meets Nadia on the headland late at night, science fiction collides with political fact as they tear the town apart. One by one the astronauts come to Hartlepool, and the two lost women must face their destiny together. Brand new dark comedy about broken Britain and broken promises, and the lengths we go to fix them.

“2ps dropping through the multiverse. It’s like the slot machines are upside down and all the coins are rolling away. Jobs, industry, education, security, dribbling down to the bottom of Britain. That’s where the piggy bank is, the big fat piggy bank.”

PRESS & AWARDS
Winner VAULT Festival Origins Award for Outstanding New Work
“deeply ambitious and darkly funny” Exeunt Magazine
“Foley intelligently works in a deep critique of where we’ve let our country get to” My Theatre Mates

Astronauts of Hartlepool premiered at VAULT Festival 2017 from Wednesday 8th to Sunday 12th February 2017.

CAST
Sophie Steer
Rakhee Thakrar

CREATIVE TEAM
Writer: Tim Foley
Director: Siobhán Cannon-Brownlie
Producer: Hannah Tookey
Lighting Designer: Tom Kitney
Stage Manager: Rachel Pryce