Whitebone Productions and the Tristan Bates Theatre present
Bane & Bane 2
plus Bruce Bane world record attempt

10th - 29th January (no Sundays)
7:30pm Bane / 8:45pm Bane 2

Bruce Bane world record attempt
12th January, 7:30pm, £12

Tickets: £8 or £12 for both shows

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020 7240 6283 / boxoffice@tristanbatestheatre.co.uk

Winner FringeReview Outstanding Theatre Award 2009
Winner Three Weeks Editors Award 2010
Nominated ‘Best Solo Performance’ The Stage awards for acting excellence 2009

One man, 79 characters and a virtuoso live guitar soundtrack.

Hired hand Bruce Bane works the mean streets of pulp fiction. As he goes about his shadowy business down back alleys and eerie sidewalks, he shoots from the hip and asks questions later. Inspired by hard-boiled detective stories, classic film noir, and mainstream cinema, Bane and Bane 2 are hilarious one-man genre parodies performed and written by Joe Bone. Joe plays all 79 characters across both productions, bringing his comic antihero and tale of bloody revenge to life with just his body, his voice and live guitar soundtrack from Ben Roe.

Premiering in Edinburgh 2009 Bane won the Fringe Review Outstanding Theatre award and took home a nomination for Best Solo Performance at The Stage awards for acting excellence.

A year on, Bane 2 travelled to Edinburgh where it picked up a Fringe Guru Editors Choice award, a Three Weeks Editors Choice award and widespread critical acclaim.

The shows can be seen separately, either way around, or one after another.

Wanna be part of history?

In a special performance of Bruce Bane, an amalgamation of the two Bane shows, Joe Bone will attempt to smash the Guinness World record for most charcters played by one person in a play. The current world record is for 52. Bruce Bane will have 79. We say that record's goin' down like a five dollar hooker. Buy a ticket for Wednesday 12th January and be part of history.

Reviews for Bane

‘It's a brilliant hour of comedy-theatre which has fun with all the genre's hallmarks and manages to conjure a sense of widescreen thrill with zero props. It struck me as a sort of 60-minute pitch for what could just be the best crime movie never made.’ Chris Wiegand, The Guardian

‘Bane is certainly an engaging anti-hero but it is Bone who proves himself hero of this highly entertaining hour. It’s a remarkable achievement.’ The Stage MUSTSEE

‘Bane is a one-man cinematic rollercoaster, a film noir parody with punch.’ Total Theatre