Date/Time
Friday 11 April 2025
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Categories Comedy
Book here now: £15 full price • £10 or £7 if you prefer – please pay what you can*
Comedy writer and opera singer Lucy Mellors has had enough.
Enough of grovelling to all-powerful male directors.
Enough of being judged for eating a biscuit.
Enough of singing by the bras at the back of Marks and Spencer. Enough of sacrificing her mental health in pursuit of a dream.
Intertwining Lucy’s experiences as an award-winning opera singer with the stories of Valentina Tereshkova (the first woman in space) and Valentina Ponomaryova (almost the first woman in space), It is I, Seagull is a hilarious exploration of self-esteem, joy, failure, opera and space travel. Fusing opera and comedy, Lucy exposes current and historical everyday sexism to ask what it takes to achieve something extraordinary, and is it worth it?
Audience quotes
‘We truly should see more theatre of this calibre and strength’
‘Witty, beautiful, and passionate’
‘I hate opera. But I loved that’
‘Made opera really accessible and relevant’
‘It moved me to tears’
‘Hilarious one minute and earth-shatteringly real the next’
‘Brilliant. Best thing I’ve seen in years’
‘The juxtaposition of joy/nonsense and reality was awesome’
‘Achingly vulnerable and tender’ ‘An absolute triumph’
‘Unbearably truthful, painfully funny and exquisitely beautiful’
What would you sacrifice in pursuit of a dream? Or just a job…
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* We usually have three ticket prices – please pay what you can. If you can pay the full price, that’s great. If choosing a cheaper ticket allows you to come to more things, then please do! Ticket receipts are split between the artists (it’s usually their livelihood!) and the arts centre (keeps the place going). Except on the rare occasions when we have a sellout gig on our hands, it’s always better to have someone here in the audience than an empty seat, so genuinely, please pay whatever you can.