Blue/Orange

Middlesbrough Theatre presents the TABS Production of Blue/Orange. An edgy comedy by Joe Penhall.

Olivier Award for Best New Play, 2001, Evening Standard Best Play of the Year, 2000, Critic's Circle Theatre Award for Best New Play, 2000.

Directed and designed by Karen Henson

What do you do when you can’t tell the inmate from the shrink?

In a London psychiatric hospital, Christopher claims he's the son of the late Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin and that oranges are blue - a story that becomes unnervingly plausible. This baffling young man becomes a human punch bag in the battle between two psychiatrists.

But is Chris seriously ill, or is he being misdiagnosed by an uptight doctor? Blue/Orange keeps us guessing as our perception of the characters, and their relationship to each other, constantly shifts.

An incendiary tale of race, madness and a Darwinian power struggle at the heart of a dying NHS, Blue/Orange challenges assumptions about 'normality' and questions whether 'sanity' is dependant on the colour of your skin.

Directed by Middlesbrough Theatre regular Karen Henson – last seen in Tabs Productions’ Snake in the Grass a year ago – Blue/Orange is being specially re-mounted for the theatre as part of its Summer Drama Season.

'A ferocious comedy, with dialogue fueled by testosterone and paced like a volley of bullets’ - NEW YORK TIMES.

SUMMER SUPERSAVER...See Blue/Orange for £8 if you have have booked and seen Strangers on a Train.