Touring Plays: What’s Coming Up In 2020 – Part 1
Mark Ludmon previews some of the UK tours coming up in 2020, from comedies to supernatural thrillers. Book your tickets now!
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Edinburgh Fringe Preview Part Two
Mark Ludmon picks out some of the new writing highlights at the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe This year’s Edinburgh Fringe offers an incredible choice of new writing, including many world premieres. Alongside the powerhouse of the Traverse Theatre, venues such as Summerhall have now established a reputation for exciting new theatre, especially with the return of Paines Plough’s Roundabout space. But don’t always follow the crowd: there are plays by new writers being staged across the city, giving you a chance to catch new and emerging talent. The Fishermen Having its world premiere at Home in Manchester in July, this new play is an adaptation of Chigozie Obioma’s Man Booker prize-shortlisted novel by Fringe First-winning playwright Gbolahan Obisesan. Presented by Nottingham-based theatre company New Perspectives, it is an allegory of brotherhood, vengeance and fate about four brothers in a small Nigerian town whose lives are changed forever. The cast includes Michael Ajao … Read more
UPCOMING: Crazytown: The World Of Ryan Scott Oliver
Julian Eaves takes a look at Crazytown : The World of Ryan Scott Oliver which is being presented at The Other Palace Studio on Monday 26 March 2018. There’s a welcome return to London coming up for the multi-talented Ryan Scott Oliver, one of the most original – and accomplished – musical theatre voices in New York. Having made a sensational splash in this building last year in the debut staging of ‘35MM: A Musical Exhibition‘, and a kind of love-letter to his husband-to-be, the photographer Matthew Murphy: in fact, it remains his one non-commissioned work; everything he has done has been to order. Anyway, the same team that made that remarkable show such a hit – director Adam Lenson and MD Joe Bunker – have gone the whole hog and turned themselves into producers as well, in order to ensure that this show gets before the public. And what … Read more
