The Market Place Theatre in Armagh is hosting the brilliantly titled drama, ‘Handbag Positive’ – the medical slang for a confused elderly lady lying on a hospital bed clutching her handbag.
Attracta and Nora were the best of friends when they were teenagers. They shared everything from their Bay City Roller trousers to boyfriends. In the dark days of the late 1970s they sang shangalang and they ran with the gang. Bomb scares at their school weren’t scary at all, they got a day off and that was ok by them.
They drift apart as people do until fate reunites them in their middle age. In a local A&E they find themselves back in their teenage years, exchanging stories as well as insults, and wonder why they ever liked each other and, in particular, how they ever got a lumber wearing Bay City Roller trousers.
‘Handbag Positive’ is a new and hilariously funny play by Donna O’ Connor, co-writer of ‘A Night With George’. The production stars Alexandra Ford [Give My Head Peace] and Christina Nelson [Mistletoe And Crime].
‘Handbag Positive’ will be staged at The Market Place Theatre in Armagh on Saturday 18th June at 8pm. Tickets are priced £18 each.
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