the story so far...

thick as thieves started in my terraced house in nottingham, but it grew.

First advert

Friends, Romans, countrymen,
lend me your front room!

In a once in my lifetime event, Hardgraft Theatre Company is offering their professional services free of charge to members of the public. They will be performing their new play "True Story" about a couple of burglars, as a UK tour, nothing strange in that. They will however be attempting a tour of people's front rooms, kitchens or studies and are currently looking for volunteers and suggestions.

The idea is simple. From the 4th - 10th February 2002, Hardgraft will be traveling north from Nottingham to Newcastle, across to Carlisle then south following the M6 and M5 corridor down to Cornwall and finally heading home to Nottingham via London and the A1.

We are looking for theatre lovers who are willing to organise:
1. A venue
2. A meal (2 actors, a stage manager and a camera man.)
3. An audience. (We estimate an average audience of 10 per evening, depending on the venue)
4. An man to be part of the cast (he says nothing but must be willing to wear nothing but pants and a sock!)

We are also looking for places to stay along the way

Any serious offers for a 4th February tour date
Or more information contact

Already 3 booked for Nottingham, Sheffield and Rochdale

And that was it, our First tour in 2002 was:

1-3 Feb. Nottingham Victorian Terrace in Netherfield

4th Feb. Leeds Mark's house

5th Feb. Northumberland Surprise birthday party

6th Feb. Liverpool 50ft Narrow Boat on the Grand Union canal

8th Feb. Hackney London Warehouse

9th Feb. Putney London My friend's house

10th Feb. Collingham Steff the gusto man

24th Feb. Radcliff on trent 30's Art deco house

paramount comedy channel flat above the offices

Netherfield 2 special one off performance.

Later that year we took stock, rewrote and turned a disused nottingham city centre shop into a 60 seater venue and sold out for three weeks

more favorable reviews and my head was getting even bigger so we decided to take the play to the Edinburgh festival - in august 2003 we took the stage of the Smirnoff Underbelly and we never gave it back. Hard graft had a sell out four star show!