Budding Rose Productions

We’ve made it into the Congleton Chronicle 🙌🏻🙌🏻
This made us smile. Read our writer, Phil Ball’s Interview with his home town newspaper!

A Congleton native with roots in the local theatre community will take a play with a local twist to he bright lights of London later this month.
Phil Ball, who now lives in the capital, wrote Moth Hunting, about a mother and her two daughters who go searching for insects in Macclesfield forest. ‘Carrying only a home made moth trap, corned beef sandwiches and a lifetime of resentment’.

Mr Ball said he got much of the inspiration for his play from his own life and experiences int he local area. ‘The play is heavily influenced by my own life, for example my grandparents met in Sparrow Park in Macclesfield and in the play, a character recalls how their parents met in that park. Also when we were in Centre Parcs, we saw people going Moth Hunting and that’s where I got the idea of how to base the play’.

The play also takes a cue from current political polarisation in the country because of Brexit.

Mr Ball said ‘Thematically the play is kind of political in that everyone these days are poles apart and it’s about encouraging people to talk more. It’s also about family and how we don’t always see eye to eye and we can argue, but things get better’

Tickets available now! https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/moth_hunting

It started in Toys R Us in 1989. It ends tonight!

Join us for the hilarious new play, Moth Hunting, at the The Cockpit this September! A night full of laughter and mischief. If you've experienced sibling rivalry, the joyful embarrassment of parents or an endless struggle with brawling children - this show is for you!

Early Bird Tickets Now Available: https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/moth_hunting

Thank you so much to everyone who came to DRAG ME OUT last week - we had an absolute blast making it and could not have hoped for better audiences! 🙌
On to our Spring project now.. see you there!