20th August
Square Chapel, Halifax, West Yorkshire
(part of the Halifax festival)
"Some Christmas - your eggs hard-boiled, p*ssing down with rain, and your brother kidnaps Reggie Kray."
...It's Boxing Day 1969. Benny and Reuben Stein own a run-down porn cinema in Gateshead, and owe a lot of money to a local gangster - who has just given Benny a week and a kick in the teeth to pay up. So when a drunk, rich-looking Londoner staggers through the door, Reuben sees an opportunity, both to make some money and to establish himself as a gangster in his own right. The one tiny little flaw in this particular kidnapping plan is that Reuben may have stumbled on the biggest gangster of them all - one of the infamous Kray twins.
Insults, punches and severed fingers fly in this fast-paced dark comedy from the writer of The Men Who Stare at Goats. In amongst the infighting, hostage negotiation and games of Snap, Benny, Reuben and the others discover how far they are really prepared to go to be Real Men - and learn that sometimes even the most fearsome of crooks aren't as manly as they seem.
Please Note: This performance is not suitable for children under 16.
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