NEWS TICKER
Published on
January 17, 2016
Of Mice And Men UK Tour
By
douglasmayo
William Rodell and Kristian Phillips in Of Mice And Men. Photo: Shaun Webb
The Touring Consortium Theatre Company and The Birmingham Repertory Theatre are to present a new tour of Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.
Two migrant farm workers held together by a mutual dependence, a deep affection and an undying loyalty go in search of new beginning in the hope of attaining their shared dream: of putting together enough money to buy a small piece of land and building a home. No strangers to trouble, George and Lennie soon find themselves reeling from the fallout of an innocent misunderstanding which spirals out of control and leaves the two men, bound together by friendship, facing an earth-shattering climax. A story, raw in speech and action, full of heart and unflinching realism, it remains one of the most poignant statements of being human our contemporary theatre has produced.
Of Mice And Men will be directed by Birmingham Repertory Theatre’s Artistic Director Roxana Silbert, with design by Liz Ascroft, lighting by Simon Bond, sound design and original composition by Nick Powell, and with Nick Pitt as Associate Director and Lucy Cullingford as Movement Director. The cast will include Dave Fishley as ‘Crooks’, Nicholas Goode as ‘Whit’, Saoirse-Monica Jackson as ‘Curley’s Wife’ Neil McKinven as ‘Carlson / Boss’, Kristian Phillips as ‘Lennie’, Jonah Russell as ‘Slim’, and William Rodell as ‘George’, Ben Stott as ‘Curley’ and featuring Dudley Sutton (Lovejoy) as ‘Candy’.
Created by producer Jenny King, The Touring Consortium Theatre Company will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2016 both with Of Mice and Men, and a brand new adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities by Mike Poulton with Royal and Derngate, Northampton directed by James Dacre with music by the Oscar winning composer Rachel Portman. Jenny King said, “The company was created in 1996 in response to a need expressed by chief executives of several of the UKs leading touring venues for quality text based drama that reached out to new, young audiences as well as sustaining the interest of core theatre goers. Since its creation we have produced over twenty three productions and played to over a million people, and involved some 25,000 young people in our workshops and creative learning programmes.”
Of Mice And Men will tour nationally from 4th February 2016.
OF MICE AND MEN UK TOUR 2016
Thursday 4 – Saturday 13 February
Birmingham Repertory Theatre
Tuesday 23 – Saturday 27 February
Cheltenham Everyman Theatre
Tuesday 1 – Saturday 5 March
Nottingham Theatre Royal
Tuesday 8 – Saturday 12 March
Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton
Tuesday 15 – Saturday 19 March
Darlington Civic Theatre
Tuesday 22 – Saturday 26 March
Grand Theatre, Blackpool
Tuesday 12 – Saturday 16 April
Arts Theatre, Cambridge
Tuesday 19 – Saturday 23 April
Theatre Royal, Brighton
Tuesday 26 – Saturday 30 April
King’s Theatre, Edinburgh
Tuesday 3 – Saturday 7 May
New Theatre, Cardiff
Tuesday 10 – Saturday 14 May
Oxford Playhouse
Monday 23 – Saturday 28 May
Leicester Curve