Name: Ugly Chief
Start: 2018-04-06T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2018-04-06T23:00:00+01:00
Location: The Theatre

Ugly Chief

The Old Courts

<H2>Ugly Chief is quite simply the most uplifting and invigorating show you'll see this year and tells an incredible, touching, surreal true story you WILL NEVER forget.</H2>
Artist and performer Victoria Melody teams up with her dad, TV antique dealer Mike Melody, for her most ambitious show yet. Ugly Chief is a comedy based on true-life events, performed by a real-life father and daughter.
In 2013, Mike was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease and given five years to live. Victoria was put in charge of planning the funeral (complete with eulogies, a New Orleans jazz procession and a congregation dressed in Blackpool FC tangerine). But a year later the doctors realised they had misdiagnosed Mike. Victoria and Mike decided to go ahead anyway. Ugly Chief plays out two funerals – the one Victoria planned and the one her dad really wanted and Mike is the guest of honour at both!
 *********MORE INFO********** Following her dad's positive health revelation, Victoria went to Port Talbot to train as a funeral director. As the show unfolds, it unpicks the complicated relationship with a parent whose opinion you don't always agree with.
Mike will be running his own version of the Antiques Roadshow during the show. The audience are invited to bring along their heirlooms, curiosities and collectables for him to value during the show. No promises but if he likes it, he might even buy it!
Victoria Melody is an award-winning British artist with a background in fine art. She has made one-woman theatrical shows, performance interventions and films mainly about Britain’s pastimes, passions and tribes. Fascinated by anthropology, she immerses herself into communities and becomes an active participant in their rituals as research for her work. In the past she has become a pigeon racer, a Northern Soul dancer, a championship dog handler and a beauty queen.
Over 14's with an Adult
The Theatre: Entrance 4 Friday 6th April | Doors & Bar Open 7pm | Performance Starts 8pm
Tickets: Front 2 Row Unreserved Seating - £15 Standard Unreserved Seating - £10 Concessions (Students & OAPS) - £6 Open Door Tickets (description below) - £6  Open Door Tickets -The Old Courts is a not-for-profit arts centre dedicated to providing the best creative events and opportunities for all. If the cost of a standard ticket is beyond your reach, our open door tickets are available at a discounted rate. You support us, we support you.
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Cinema/Theatre Style Layout – There will be enough seats to cover all tickets sold, this may be on an allocated or unallocated basis which will be listed prior to purchasing. All ticket holders will have access to a seat with clear view of the stage and there will be no dancefloor or standing permitted.

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