Gerry Potter: The Men Pomes at Studio SalfordWhen : 3rd March 2012 - 8:00pm
Where : Studio Salford
Price : £7.00
The Men Pomes
Wed 29th Feb to Sat 3rd Mar 2012 @ 8.00pm
Studio Salford, The King's Arms, 11 Bloom St, Salford M3 6AN
(Bloom St is a continuation of Mcr's John Dalton St & Bridge St)
£7/£5 - tickets from www.studiosalford.com
Written by & starring Gerry Potter
Produced by Dominic Berry
In his new, full length, one man show the writer of the smash hit play “Miracle” finally comes to terms with his masculinity and the men who buttered and battered it into shape.
From the drug induced surreal to the gutter sparkle dirty real, Gerry Potter delves into all things male, exploring the camaraderie of brothers, the abandonment of fathers and the wit and wisdom of Scousers in a collision of bravado, humour and grief. The man who lived as Chloe Poems for fifteen years unearths working class men as you’ve never seen them before.
The sell-out success of The Manchester Literature Festival at Contact Theatre, “The Men Pomes” is for men and women of all ages, stages and rages and is produced by Dominic Berry.
“In the Scotland Road area of Liverpool men didn’t say poems. They said “pomes”. I think Scouse men think the word poem or poems might make them sound as effeminate as a bohemian crafts teacher, so they butch it up, give it a more bedraggled bullied tone. I like the rugged industry of “pomes” and the malleable creative history of poems. In the middle of those two words is the gender of how and why I write.
I remember one bloke saying, “Don’t like that many pomes, but that pome by Blake, y’know, the burnin’ tiger one... that’s fuckin’ boss.”
The Men Pomes. Because men don’t say poems.”
When : 3rd March 2012 - 8:00pm
Where : Studio Salford
Price : £7.00
The Men Pomes
Wed 29th Feb to Sat 3rd Mar 2012 @ 8.00pm
Studio Salford, The King's Arms, 11 Bloom St, Salford M3 6AN
(Bloom St is a continuation of Mcr's John Dalton St & Bridge St)
£7/£5 - tickets from www.studiosalford.com
Written by & starring Gerry Potter
Produced by Dominic Berry
In his new, full length, one man show the writer of the smash hit play “Miracle” finally comes to terms with his masculinity and the men who buttered and battered it into shape.
From the drug induced surreal to the gutter sparkle dirty real, Gerry Potter delves into all things male, exploring the camaraderie of brothers, the abandonment of fathers and the wit and wisdom of Scousers in a collision of bravado, humour and grief. The man who lived as Chloe Poems for fifteen years unearths working class men as you’ve never seen them before.
The sell-out success of The Manchester Literature Festival at Contact Theatre, “The Men Pomes” is for men and women of all ages, stages and rages and is produced by Dominic Berry.
“In the Scotland Road area of Liverpool men didn’t say poems. They said “pomes”. I think Scouse men think the word poem or poems might make them sound as effeminate as a bohemian crafts teacher, so they butch it up, give it a more bedraggled bullied tone. I like the rugged industry of “pomes” and the malleable creative history of poems. In the middle of those two words is the gender of how and why I write.
I remember one bloke saying, “Don’t like that many pomes, but that pome by Blake, y’know, the burnin’ tiger one... that’s fuckin’ boss.”
The Men Pomes. Because men don’t say poems.”
