Cellular

Cellular runs at The Stables Theatre on 25 and 26 February, a two-hander written and directed by Dean Stalham. It stars Jane Gull and Vanessa Koster Goodliffe as two women forced to share a prison cell when overcrowding leaves the prison with no other choice.

They couldn't be more different. Marj has already served ten years of a life sentence for the murder of her abusive husband; she's learned how to survive prison and how to survive herself. Veronica is middle-class, convicted of mortgage fraud, and appalled by everything about prison life. The play is a serious, darkly comic look at what happens when those two worlds are crammed into one small room.

Through their arguments, an unlikely companionship and increasingly intimate conversations, they dismantle each other's assumptions. They're forced to confront uncomfortable truths about who they were, who they've become, and what freedom actually means. It's the kind of play that lives and breathes on the chemistry between the two leads, and with only two actors on stage, there's nowhere for the characters to hide.

The Stables Theatre and Arts Centre, which puts on about ten amateur productions a year, advises that the show is suitable for ages 16 and over. Both performances start at 19:30, and tickets are £10.00 across the board.