Venue: Alphabetti Theatre

When: Saturday 29th July

Performance Times: 9.00pm

Tickets: £10 Full Price / £5 Concession / £3 'No Questions' (maximum 10 available online only).  Booking fees apply.

Running Time: Approx. 70 mins 

Age Recommendation: 14+ 

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Powerful and explosive one woman show set in Scarborough.

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"This isn't the story of Icarus and Daedalus.

It's Yasmin and Jack.

And we won't fly too close to the sun.

We'll fly through the f***er."

 

Build a Rocket is an explosive and powerful one-woman show following the story of Yasmin, a teenager from Scarborough, whose life isn't sandcastles, arcades, and donkey rides…she finds herself pregnant and alone in the world. A unique and bold production propels this hard-hitting yet inspiring story. Yasmin takes us on a whirlwind journey through nights out, morning sickness, and school uniforms right up to her son's coming of age. Build a Rocket is a funny and uplifting story exploring triumph over adversity, challenging perceptions of young motherhood along the way.

 

Performed/Produced by Shannon Rewcroft

Directed by Jordan Langford

 

Writer Christopher York comments : “I am a product of teenage pregnancy, I spent my early life in a bedsit with my mum and dad. I have grown up around teenage pregnancy, and seen it demonized in the press, but that's not the reality of what I saw growing up; I saw brilliant, positive, funny young women, raising children, even without the privilege of another parent.

 I wanted to write something that would celebrate the women of Scarborough, Yorkshire and anyone who might empathise with the challenges of growing up in a working class town. Build A Rocket follows Yasmin, a teenage badass, who unbeknownst to herself, is armed with an arsenal of powers – not flight, invisibility or anything like that, but resiliency and wit.”