BOTTLENECK (RESTREAM)
CATEGORY
THEATRE
TICKETS FROM
£6
AGE GUIDANCE
15+
DATES & TIMES
UNTIL 30TH AUGUST
RUNNING TIME
60MINS
BOOK TICKETS
This performance is a recording of a previously live event. Once you purchase the ticket you will have access to the show until August 30th, once you begin to watch the show you have 72 hours to complete your viewing.
BY LUKE BARNES
Liverpool, 1989. Greg is thirteen. He has just started secondary school. He earns pocket money sweeping up hair in a barbers. Girls are aliens. Liverpool FC are everything.
Shedinburgh 2021. Tom has an extraordinary story to tell you.
Steven Atkinson, director of the Fringe First winning Lidless, directs James Cooney (Island, National Theatre) in a vibrant coming-of-age story about becoming a man through adventures both big and small. It is about a notorious city; Liverpool. How the outside world views it and how it views the outside world.
Bottleneck played at Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Festival, and Soho Theatre before going on a National tour ending at HighTide Festival Theatre.
Content Warning: Disaster, rape
Performed by James Cooney
Originally Produced by HighTide Festival Theatre
BOOK YOUR TICKETS
UNTIL 30TH AUGUST
HOW TO SELECT YOUR TICKETS
Tickets start from £6, however we’re kindly asking you to consider paying more if you can. There are several options for you to choose from.
If there is more than one person watching on the same device, please also consider buying a “household” ticket. If you want tickets for people to watch on separate devices, you need to buy the appropriate number of single tickets.
A minimum of 25% of every ticket purchased for SHEDINBURGH 2021 will go into the SHED LOAD OF FUTURE FUND; a fund that will directly support the next generation of Fringe artists.
HOW TO WATCH
Once you’ve purchased a ticket, you’ll receive an email with a link that will grant you access to the stream during the viewing window of 3 days.
This event can be viewed in a web browser, via Google Chromecast, on Apple or Android TVs and on Amazon Fire TV. Find out how to connect here.
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