Pint Dreams

A Tin Box Theatre production, Holding Space Commission and UK tour (2013-2014)

Maggie is a perpetual wanderer. Desperate to see new places, meet new people and collect their stories, she is travelling around the country one pub at a time. Join her for a drink, some hearty food and a chance to hear the stories that have shaped her journey, before you continue on yours.

Pint Dreams interweaves traditional storytelling with live music and puppetry in a short immersive piece created for pubs, commissioned by Holding Space Consortium (Warwick Arts Centre, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, mac, Black Country Touring and Stan’s Cafe). Pint Dreams toured to pubs in the West Midlands as part of Theatre Fever and to London as part of Camden Peoples Theatre’s Sprint festival in March 2013 (Click here to see where Maggie has been so far). Pint Dreams toured to venue bars, music festival beer tents, pubs and festivals around the UK in 2013-14, including Edinburgh Fringe in association with Pleasance. Full tour dates here.

CAST Elena Voce Siriani, David Fisher, Hannah Graham, Jonathan Whitten, Robert Lane

Devised by Tin Box Theatre

Directed by Jo Newman and Jo Gleave

Music Composed by David Fisher

Puppet Maker Elena Voce Siriani

“Engagingly done”
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

★★★★ “A confident, memorable storytelling experience”
A Younger Theatre

“Intimate, inclusive… a show that seeks to reconnect folkish traditions like storytelling and minstrelsy to the contemporary world of the Fringe”
Total Theatre

★★★★ “Works like a dream…Tin Box hit the nail on the head with Pint Dreams, saying so much more about the art of storytelling itself by breaking down barriers just as much as they just tell a good story”
Broadway Baby

“witty, engaging and deeply satisfying”
The Good Review

“So delightful”
Theatre Fever

“Puppetry, pints and perfection”
Audience Response, Sprint Festival, Camden People’s Theatre

“This is a communal experience and one which could change the darkest, coldest pub into the kind of ‘old man pub’ you dream about on cold Sunday afternoons”
Audience Response, Sprint Festival, Camden People’s Theatre

“You’ve made my weekend”
Audience Response, Tap and Spile, Wolverhampton

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England and supported by Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Warwick Arts Centre, mac Birmingham, Stan’s Cafe and Black Country Touring