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Matt is going off the rails. But a stolen mobile phone call lands him out of his depth.

Market stall worker Matt is going off the rails. But a stolen mobile phone call lands him out of his depth. Stars Stephen Hoyle.

by Steve Sunderland

Matt's going off the rails. School was a washout and working on his dad's market stall is a dead end job. But when he hears a call for help on a stolen mobile phone, it's a call to action. The trail leads him to an apparently glamorous crowd, and he wades in way out of his depth. An arresting morality tale by Steve Sunderland.

Matt. . . . . Stephen Hoyle
Paul . . . . . Joseph Kloska
Jennifer . . . . . Jessica Blake
Tom . . . . .James Cartwright
Ian . . . . . Conrad Nelson
Ruth . . . . . Fiona Clarke
Andy . . . . . Oliver Lee

Original Music by Steven D Reid
Produced by Peter Leslie Wild

If you want owt - go down the market... They sell everything from pins to pearl earrings, from peaches to pig's trotters, from tripe to tiramisu. See the hanging, marbled haunches of beef down Butchers' Row. Smell the flowers, a fragrant dream. Taste the fresh silvery fish motorwayed down from the North Sea. 

Some would say the Market is the last authentic part of the city centre. This northern city once textured by textiles has reinvented itself as a business and financial centre - it bristles with designer shops and bars. A cosmopolitan, twenty-four hour city. Yet slap bang in the centre is a shard of another city. And after countless makeovers, the Victorian City Market remains what it has always been; a place where you can get anything and see anything - a place teeming with life. A place bristling with stories. The market is the real face of the city - mucky, multicultural and magnificent. 

'Market' is an umbrella series of six plays about people who work in and around its stalls. Each story is a self-contained quirky tale. Modern morality plays, with a whiff of the fantastical about them.

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Six quirky modern morality tales about people who work in and around the market stalls

Series of plays about people who work in and around the market stalls. Each story is a self-contained quirky modern morality tale

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