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This brilliant two-hander starring Grace O’Leary and Julie Parton debuted to great acclaim at the Not Part Of festival in Manchester last July.

The story, set in a bar in London and a flat in Edinburgh, deals with an estranged mother and daughter who meet for the first time after being apart for over twenty years. The separation was an acrimonious one, as the mother walked out on her daughter when she was four years old. The play opens with their electrifying reunion.

Three of the Best from 24:7 Theatre Festival
“An original 3D experience” 24:7 Theatre Festival gives you three fresh and original one-hour dramas, performed in full 3D by flesh and blood actors.

Three of the best plays from the festival will be selected to appear at The Continental over three seperate nights.

More details will be announced soon.
 

Following last year's one-man show Clothes to Fall Apart In, The Off-Off-Off-Broadway Company returns with two-hander THE SEXES – a darkly amusing, gender-bending portrait of a marriage.

The Preston Tringe is an open access festival consisting of drama, music, magic, visual art, dance and comedy - which is taking place across multiple venues in Preston.

It will take place between Saturday July 23rd and Sunday August 1st.

Here is a run down of all the events at The Continental. Click on the event titles for more information...

The Roots of Love – Thurs 29th July - 8pm – £5
From the writer of Beautiful House, a short and intense play about two charismatic and imaginative men tied together by remorse, guilt love and vivid imaginations.
‘Packed with pathos and wit, a beautiful piece about the fragility of the human condition.’ Maxine Peake

See history repeat itself first in ‘Monkey Poet’ Matt Panesh’s brand new black comedy drawn from actual eye witness testimonies.

A theatre piece based on the experiences of soldiers serving and dying in the first Afghan War (1839-42). It incoporates the greatest disaster in British Military history - the 90 mile walk from Kabul to Jelalabad in which just one man survived froma  force of 16,500 and the retribution that British forces delivered.