AN acclaimed and moving piece of new drama, Transports from Cornwall-based Pipeline Theatre Company, will be at The Courtyard on Friday, February 5.

It’s 1973 and a troubled 15-year-old is shunted into her final foster home. Her foster mother has a hint of a foreign accent, verbal diarrhoea and a trunk full of secrets. As youth plays cat and mouse with age, two parallel sets of revelations collide with devastating consequences, in a story inspired by the experiences of the show’s designer’s mother, who was on the last Kinderstransport to England in 1940.

Pipeline Theatre specialises in new writing and aims to make theatre with high production values, in which design and text develop in tandem. They particularly offer gifted young actors the opportunity to perform alongside seasoned professionals in work which is relevant to both; this production weaves together two razor-sharp performances with film, a sumptuously evocative underscore and a striking stage design.

Critics have heaped praise on Transports: "Effortless, beautiful, heart-breaking and thought-provoking … an incredible, captivating story" (A Younger Theatre) and ‘The writing, the two performances, the design, all combine to create a stunningly immersive theatrical experience.' (Tim Yealland, English Touring Opera)

Transports is at The Courtyard on Friday, February 5 at 7.30pm. To book, call the box office o 01432 340555 or visit courtyard.org.uk