Happy As Pye
Opposites don’t always attract in Happy As Pye, 22-23 July 2025, Salford Arts Theatre, as part of Greater Manchester Fringe.
A forty-five minute play featuring 3 characters, which centres on opposites. Class status, gender, ethnicity and social differences to name a few... Where two characters are put together and how they learn to live in the same environment.
When a rather serious and logically minded ‘Pye’ is thrown into confinement with a bouncy, bubbly and slightly unhinged ‘Happy’, the pair have little choice but to get to know each other better.
Join these two very different characters as they are forced to confront, not only each other, but perhaps even themselves.
Happy As Pye takes the audience into the mindset of the characters of Happy and Pye through Happy’s childhood memories of theme tunes and TV shows creating his own bubble in a world that he has come to know and accept as his own. Pye’s introduction into Happy’s world only encourages him to delve deeper in.
Happy symbolises the youthful free spirited individual whilst Pye represents the establishment that Happy is constantly battling against. The third character Franky represents the "Everyman" / "Surrogate" to the audience, breaking the chaos that surrounds the ongoing dilemma between Happy and Pye.
The play invites the viewer to decide what is real and what is not. Delving into the minds of two characters that hold very different outlooks on life. Or do they? These characters could just as easily be as one and only they can truly explore what it means, or doesn't mean, to be 'happy'!
PB Ware (Director) from Liverpool.
Amrit Jha (Performer) from Chester.
Franky Higgins (Performer) from Wigan.
Nathan Wedge (Performer) from Bolton.
Bexs Barlow (Producer) from Bolton.
Happy As Pye
Opposites don’t always attract in Happy As Pye, 22-23 July 2025, Salford Arts Theatre, as part of Greater Manchester Fringe.
A forty-five minute play featuring 3 characters, which centres on opposites. Class status, gender, ethnicity and social differences to name a few... Where two characters are put together and how they learn to live in the same environment.
When a rather serious and logically minded ‘Pye’ is thrown into confinement with a bouncy, bubbly and slightly unhinged ‘Happy’, the pair have little choice but to get to know each other better.
Join these two very different characters as they are forced to confront, not only each other, but perhaps even themselves.
Happy As Pye takes the audience into the mindset of the characters of Happy and Pye through Happy’s childhood memories of theme tunes and TV shows creating his own bubble in a world that he has come to know and accept as his own. Pye’s introduction into Happy’s world only encourages him to delve deeper in.
Happy symbolises the youthful free spirited individual whilst Pye represents the establishment that Happy is constantly battling against. The third character Franky represents the "Everyman" / "Surrogate" to the audience, breaking the chaos that surrounds the ongoing dilemma between Happy and Pye.
The play invites the viewer to decide what is real and what is not. Delving into the minds of two characters that hold very different outlooks on life. Or do they? These characters could just as easily be as one and only they can truly explore what it means, or doesn't mean, to be 'happy'!
PB Ware (Director) from Liverpool.
Amrit Jha (Performer) from Chester.
Franky Higgins (Performer) from Wigan.
Nathan Wedge (Performer) from Bolton.
Bexs Barlow (Producer) from Bolton.