“Don’t get too close, we might accidentally kiss.”

Two is written by award winning playwright Jim Cartwright, renowned for his ability to inject humour into even the darkest of situations.

This hilarious and harrowing piece sees two actors take on fourteen different roles between them. The Landlord and Landlady of a pub move effortlessly from talking directly to the audience to serving their customers cider and chat, sympathy and spirits.

Two by Jim Cartwright presents a series of short vignettes that skillfully and touchingly depict the humour and the misery of everyday life for fourteen characters. The twist? Two actors who successfully bring the entire population of a typically northern pub to life play all fourteen characters. The story is driven forward by the landlord & landlady who banter with themselves, one another and the ‘pub regulars’ such as the old woman seeking solace from tending to husband, the old man who chatters away to his deceased wife and the cunning yobbo who tries every trick in the book to steal from his girlfriend. Then there’s the little lad left behind by his dad, who triggers a fragile reconciliation between the feuding landlord couple who row because tonight is the anniversary of a dark tragedy they cannot bear to discuss. Until now.