"Two" - Jim Cartwright's character study of a 'local' pub, its eccentric customers and its warring landlord and wife won the Manchester Evening News Best New Play award in 1989. Cartwright, writer of "The Rise and Fall of Little Voice" (starring Jane Horrocks), is one of the mavericks of the British theatre.
"Two", a bittersweet comedy, is set in present day and the action takes place during one evening. The pub regulars arrive and depart: the old man and his very real memories; the jack-the lad ever on the cadge, the domineering wife and hen-pecked husband; the 'other' woman come to see her man; the lad who's dad forgot him, and many more. Serving them all is the behind-the-bar couple whose cheeky humour thinly covers a tragic secret that threatens to tear them apart.
"A sharp, salty, quickfire evocation of the surface gaiety and underlying melancholia of English pub life. Engages the beauty of the human condition where laughter, tears, love and anger simultaneously combust". The Guardian
"This extraordinarily gifted and original voice ... populates the space with broad humour, dry wit and often shudderingly moving poetry". Time Out
| Landlord | Ian Ward |
| Landlady | Kate Mitchell |
| Old Woman | Val Foskett |
| Moth | Matthew Petty |
| Maudie | Ruth Brooks |
| Old Man | James Grayston |
| Mrs Iger | Katy Wey |
| Mr Iger | Mike Tierney |
| Lesley | Jayne Giordanella |
| Roy | Jethro Crabb |
| Fred Mike | Norman-Smith |
| Alice | Alison Raffan |
| Woman | Kathie Arundell |
| Little girl | Phoebe Hodgson |
| Director | Debbie Fowler |
| "Executive" Producer | Jeff Graves |
| Stage Manager | Cindy Graves |
| Set Build | Mike Tierney |
| Lighting / Sound | Simon Harris |
| Publicity / Programme | ??? |
| Poster Design | John Gargrave Matthew Petty |
| Cast Photos | Jayne Giordanella |
| Web page | Matthew Petty |
