The Children’s Theatre Partnership and Royal and Derngate Northampton will present the Holes UK Tour. This new play by Louis Sachar is a Nottingham Playhouse production.
Holes is an inventive new stage show based on the multi-award-winning novel and blockbuster film of the same name. It is a thrilling off-beat comedy adventure which tells the story of Stanley Yelnats, who is born into a family cursed with bad luck and finds himself accused of a crime he didn’t commit.
Sent to a labour camp as punishment, he is tasked with digging one hole, five-foot wide by five-foot deep, every day. He is told it is to build ‘character’. But the tyrannical Warden is definitely hiding something. How will Stanley and his fellow inmates deal with her demands, her two cronies, plus the fearsome rattlesnakes and yellow-spotted lizards? And will Stanley and his new friends unearth what’s really going on?
The production will open at Royal & Derngate, Northampton on 24 January 2020 before embarking on a UK tour. The tour will visit, Nottingham Playhouse, Nuffield Southampton Theatres, Coventry Belgrade Theatre, Newcastle Theatre Royal, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Liverpool Playhouse, High Wycombe Swan, Norwich Theatre Royal, Wolverhampton Grand Theatre and Canterbury Marlowe Theatre.
The cast includes Harold Addo, Leona Allen, James Backway, Joëlle Brabban, Jeremy Cobb, Rhona Croker, Gracey Davey, John Elkington, Ashley Gayle, Henry Mettle, Matthew Romain and Elizabeth Twells.
Holes, written by Louis Sachar won the 1998 U.S. National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and the 1999 Newbery Medal for the year’s most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. Louis also wrote the screenplay for the 2003 film adaptation.
Holes will be directed by Nottingham Playhouse’s Artistic Director Adam Penford (“The Madness of George III”, “Enemy of the People” and “Family Business”). The rest of the creative team includes set and costume design by Simon Kenny, lighting design by Prema Mehta and sound design by Adam P McCready. The composer is Tom Attwood, puppetry director and co-designer is Matthew Forbes and choreography is by Emma Annetts. Guy Jones is the Associate Lighting Designer and Meghan Treadway is the Associate Puppet Director. The production is cast by Vicky Richardson.
HOLES UK TOUR
24 January – 2 February 2020
Royal and Derngate Northampton
5 – 8 February 2020
Nottingham Playhouse
11 – 15 February 2020
Nuffield Southampton Theatres
18 – 22 February 2020
Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
26 – 29 February 2020
Newcastle Theatre Royal
4 – 7 March 2020
Malvern Theatres
17 – 21 March 2020
Theatre Royal Plymouth
24 – 28 March 2020
Liverpool Playhouse
31 March – 4 April 2020
Swan Theatre High Wycombe
14 – 18 April 2020
Norwich Theatre Royal
5 – 9 May 2020
Blackpool Grand
19 – 23 May 2020
Wolverhampton Grand
27 – 30 May 2020
Marlowe Theatre Canterbury
