Back Philip Martin’s ‘East of Heysham’ on Crowdfunder

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Have you ever fancied owing your own tin of Marsh Minnows? A new Crowdfunder from Lass Productions has these and other slices of Doctor Who history for you to own!

In anticipation of June’s production of East of Heysham, a premiere from Vengeance on Varos and Mindwarp writer PHILIP MARTIN, Lass Productions has created a Crowdfunder to help raise funds for this, and future productions.

Manchester-based Lass Productions has an extensive track record of bring genre pieces to the stage. Past performances include Robots of Death (“A talented company”, The Public Reviews), Storm Mine, The Ballad of Halo Jones (“Exceeded all expectations”, Starburst) and Russell T Davies’ Midnight (“Slick and technically ambitious”, SFX). Aside from the stage, they are also the producers of Vworp Vworp!, the acclaimed fanzine that celebrates Doctor Who in comic strip form and thirty years of Doctor Who Magazine.

EAST OF HEYSHAM is a brand new play from one of the television masters of the Seventies and debuts at Manchester’s Three Minute Theatre (June 17-19) before moving to Salford Arts Theatre (June 24-25). Lost youth, unrequited love, lies, bravado and James Dean. It’s all in there.

This Crowdfunder has some truly unique and exclusive rewards including:

– LIMITED EDITION MARSH MINNOWS TIN, designed by Colin Brockhurst and SIGNED BY PHILIP MARTIN AND NABIL SHABAN. Yes, it’s Sil’s favorite Marsh Minnows, harvested from the swamps of Delta Magnus and imported from Thoros Beta (possibly).

– A reproduction of the 1986 DOCTOR WHO MINDWARP CAMERA SCRIPT, signed by writer PHILIP MARTIN, plus guest stars NABIL SHABAN (Sil) and ALIBE PARSONS (Matrona).

– You and a friend are invited to join PHILIP MARTIN and the Production Team for COFFEE AND CAKE. Your chance to chat about Gangsters, Doctor Who or anything you fancy over a cuppa.

– DELUXE PHILIP MARTIN DOCTOR WHO GOODIES PACKAGE, containing Philip’s own Varos paperback, a *mint* Varos hardback book (highly sought after), a Vengeance on Varos DVD, a Copy of the East of Heysham script plus Philip’s original PRODUCTION USED COPY of the Mindwarp camera script for Part 7 which will be signed by Philip Martin, plus guest stars Alibe Parsons and Nabil Shaban.

Aside from all these goodies, there are other rewards available designed by Vworp Vworp! designer Colin Brockhurst.

Full details of the Crowdfunder are at: http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/east-of-heysham/. Tickets (including earlybird prices) are available from www.wegottickets.com/lassproductions. Follow @21stcenturylass for the latest updates on East of Heysham.

Look out for this week’s podKast in which Gareth Kavanagh tells us a little bit more about this.

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