As we introduced our BYM production of Two Caravans (which played to a packed house) we heard of another Friendly theatre group called Plain Quakers, which is going to the Edinburgh Fringe in August. PQ, as they call themselves, is a new company supported by High Flatts Quaker Meeting in West Yorkshire. Their Fringe production is On Human Folly, an 'ironic commentary' on John Woolman's travels in England. What would the radical Woolman make of Samuel Galton, the firearms manufacturer who was eventually turfed out of the Society? The actors ask some uncomfortable questions of their modern audience. Mike Casey and Arthur Pritchard, clerk of Quaker Outreach Yorkshire, take to the stage and ask: 'what did you do when you realised greed was killing the world?' Eye looks forward to this production at the Edinburgh Meeting House (Venue 40) on 18-23 August.

Labels: edinburgh, theatre, two caravans