by Sarah Miller

A Theatre Factory project in partnership with forum twenty eight
Asboy was performed at forum twenty eight on Friday 31st March 2006

Performed by the Ashton Group’s Apprenticed Actors Company

Andrew Denison Maureen, Macca, ‘Nana’
Hermione Pearson Mouse, Librarian, Lorna
Chloe Ward Staci, Daz, Elsie
Damian Rose Kyle


ASBOY ON TOUR

Asboy will be performed at The Dukes Theate, Lancaster on 6th October and at Action Transport in Ellesmere Port on 10th October

                

To see the Evening Mail pictures and review click here

Kyle’s on an ASBO. He’s been named and shamed. There are places he can’t go, people he can’t meet and even words he can’t say till 2010 . . .

Frustrated, he finds himself in the public library, trying to extend his range of expletives with a thesaurus. But in the unfamiliar world of the reference section he meets a girl, new to the area, who sees him in a whole new way. Can he find a way of walking Staci home without breaking the law or telling her about his past? Can Kyle really become who she thinks he is? ASBOy is a comedy about trying to fit in.

The Ashton Group is renowned for innovative community based theatre projects such as True North and Barramundi. The Apprenticed Actors Company is a new initiative to give young people their first experience of working in professional theatre.
During the process of making ASBOy Sarah worked with 2nd year performing arts students and had discussions with young people around Barrow, she also used research into real-life cases as a starting point for the story.