Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 7, 2016 16:12:18 GMT
Just picked up a £37.50 stage level ticket for this for £15 with a Manchester Theatres offer. Anyone else been/going? Tracy Ann Oberman starring. On until 30th July.
In my family we start out giants and end up pygmies, grandiosity runs in the blood.
Oliver Walzer is shy, bookish, Jewish. He doesn’t know how to talk to girls. But he can slice, flick and spin a ping pong ball better than any teenager in Manchester.
When Sheeny Waxman takes him under his wing on the Akiva Social Club Table Tennis team, Oliver channels his frustrated adolescent lust into the game he loves.
That is until the heartbreaking Lorna Peachley and the prospect of a place at Cambridge take his eye off the ball.
Man Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson’s hilarious homage to the Manchester of his youth is brought to the stage for the first time in this dazzling new adaptation.
“an achingly funny book…an amazing achievement” The Independent
“When I first read The Mighty Walzer I had tears of laughter running down my face in the first 10 minutes. It’s a massive privilege to bring Howard Jacobson’s Manchester masterpiece to the stage. It will be a deeply eccentric and highly theatrical comedy about the savage reality of adolescence, sex and ping pong!” Jonathan Humphreys, Director
Oliver Walzer is shy, bookish, Jewish. He doesn’t know how to talk to girls. But he can slice, flick and spin a ping pong ball better than any teenager in Manchester.
When Sheeny Waxman takes him under his wing on the Akiva Social Club Table Tennis team, Oliver channels his frustrated adolescent lust into the game he loves.
That is until the heartbreaking Lorna Peachley and the prospect of a place at Cambridge take his eye off the ball.
Man Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson’s hilarious homage to the Manchester of his youth is brought to the stage for the first time in this dazzling new adaptation.
“an achingly funny book…an amazing achievement” The Independent
“When I first read The Mighty Walzer I had tears of laughter running down my face in the first 10 minutes. It’s a massive privilege to bring Howard Jacobson’s Manchester masterpiece to the stage. It will be a deeply eccentric and highly theatrical comedy about the savage reality of adolescence, sex and ping pong!” Jonathan Humphreys, Director
