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End of tour photo. Bruiser's tour of Voltaire's 'CANDIDE', adapted by Patrick J. O'Reilly and directed by Lisa May ended on Sunday 4th May with a triumphant homecoming show at Belfast's Waterfront Hall, as part of the 2008 Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival. After a tour of 26 performances at venues around the North and South of Ireland, the show was seen by over 1,600 people and nearly 30 different schools and community groups. Thank you to all who came out to see us and welcome to anyone who has joined the mailing list with 'Candide'. To see some of the comments the show received on tour visit the 'Candide' Archive Page.

The Case Of The Frightened Lady at the Pix 'n' Mix. Bruiser were back in action at the 2008 Pick & Mix Festival in Belfast's Old Museum Arts Centre over the weekend of June 13th-15th, with a rehearsed reading of our forthcoming touring production 'The Case Of The Frightened Lady' by Bill Scott. We were delighted to be working with a superb cast on the reading - Peter Ballance, Michael Condron, Julie Maxwell, Richard Orr and Libby Smith. The cast and Lisa produced a cracking reading of this very lively and funny script which acted as a perfect appetite-whetter for the autumn!

The main tour of the full version of this cracking show will take place in September and October of this year - see Present Show page for details of the tour and how to book tickets for the various touring venues.

Lagan College launch of Education Prospectus. In April we launched a major new Education partnership between Bruiser and The Old Museum Arts Centre, funded by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland's National Lottery Fund, the centre-piece of which will be our 2008 Summer Theatre Schools in OMAC in July. Pupils at Belfast's Lagan College helped to launch the beautiful new Education Prospectus, designed by Frank, who have also been responsible for the new Bruiser logo and posters for 'Candide' and 'The Case Of The Frightened Lady'. We will also be running a Summer School in Coleraine's Riverside Theatre in August. See the redesigned Education Page for full details of these exciting programmes.

And finally we are delighted to announce that we have been granted a licence to tour Joan Littlewood's masterpiece 'Oh, What A Lovely War' in the Spring of 2009. Keep an eye on the website for details as we get them!

You can visit Bruiser's MySpace page at www.myspace.com/bruisertheatre. Come visit and be our friends!! All the best for 2008! See you all on the road!