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Lee Hall’s latest play, Our Ladies of
Perpetual Succour is a sell-out and critical success at the Edinburgh
Fringe
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour
Newcastle Live Theatre
Thursday 1st to Saturday 24th October 2015
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Kirsty MacLaren (Manda, Karen Fishwick (Kay), Melissa Allan (Orla), Frances Mayli McCann (Kylah), Caroline Deyga (Chell, Dawn Sievewright (Fionnula) Photo: Peter Dibdin |
Live Theatre’s first ever co-production with National Theatre of Scotland, Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour written by Billy Elliot and The Pitmen Painters writer Lee Hall has been a sell-out success at its world premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The play was sold out in advance of its two week run at the Traverse Theatre and has garnered critical acclaim from reviewers and audiences alike. It has gained seven five star reviews, a Herald Angel Award and an Acting Excellence Award from The Stage to date. Our Ladies… has its English premiere at Live Theatre, Newcastle from Thursday 1 to Saturday 24 October, the play’s only dates in England.
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Based on The
Sopranos by cult Scottish novelist Alan Warner, and adapted for the stage
by award-winning writer Lee Hall, Our Ladies is about six girls on the
cusp of change. It follows the choir’s trip to Edinburgh as it goes badly
wrong when love, lust, pregnancy and death all spiral out of control in a
single day.
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The soundtrack of
classical music and 70s pop rock, sung by the six cast members and performed by
an all-female band features music by Handel, Bach and ELO. Our Ladies… is an outrageous piece
of new music theatre with Tony-winning Martin Lowe (Once) as Music
Supervisor.
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The Artistic Director of Newcastle’s Live
Theatre, Max Roberts, said: ‘’As audiences will know Live Theatre has enjoyed a
long and fruitful creative relationship with Lee Hall so we are delighted to
collaborate with the National Theatre of Scotland in this co-production of his
latest work the adaptation of The
Sopranos by Alan Warner entitled Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour. I was completely knocked out by
the production directed by Vicky Featherstone at The Traverse Theatre and it
proved to be one of the highlights of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
It is hilarious, shocking and tearfully emotional in turn and its exciting,
young all female cast deliver Martin Lowe’s brilliant musical arrangements
superbly. It is quite simply a dazzling piece of theatre. I’m sure our
audiences will be delighted to witness its English premiere here in Newcastle
before it begins its inevitable life as a national and international smash hit
to follow Billy Elliot and The Pitmen Painters.’’
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Photo: Manuel Harlan
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Photo: Manuel Harlan
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Vicky Featherstone
returns to the National Theatre of Scotland for the first time since her
appointment as Artistic Director at the Royal Court Theatre, to
collaborate with Lee Hall, (Billy Elliot and The Pitmen
Painters), to create a funny, sad and raucously rude production about
singing, sex and sambuca.
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Photo: Manuel Harlan
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Warner, whose 1995
debut novel Morvern Callar became a literary phenomenon, continues his
themes of being young, lost and out of control in this musical play about
losing your virginity and finding yourself. Alan Warner wrote The
Sopranos in 1998, followed by its sequel The Stars in the Bright Sky
which was long listed for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. He has written eight
novels and is best known for Movern Callar which was made into a film
starring Samantha Morton in 2002. His most recent novel is Their Lips Talk of
Mischief, published by Faber in 2014.
Photo: Peter Dibdin
A cast of young Scottish musical theatre actresses take on
the roles of Fionnula,
Kylah, Kay, Manda, Chell and Orla.
The cast features Dawn
Sievewright (Legally Blond)
and Karen
Fishwick (The Overcoat for
Gecko Theatre and Caucasian Chalk Circle for The Lyceum Theatre,
Edinburgh) , who return to work with the National Theatre of Scotland, having
both previously appeared in the award-winning musical, The Glasgow Girls.
They are joined by Caroline
Deyga who most recently appeared in
Lucy Porter’s Fair Intellectual Club, Frances Mayli McCann (National
Theatre’s Here Lies Love and Priscilla Queen of the Desert in the
West End), Kirsty
MacLaren (Piltochry Festival Theatre
season)and Melissa
Allan who is making her professional
debut in the production. The cast will be joined on stage by a trio of
young female musicians, Amy
Shackcloth, Becky Brass and Emily Linden.
The cast will be joined on stage by a trio of young female musicians, Amy Shackcloth, Becky Brass and Emily Linden.
Adapted by Lee Hall from The Sopranos by Alan Warner
Directed by Vicky Featherstone
Music Supervisor Martin Lowe
Designed by Chloe Lamford
Lighting Design by Lizzie Powell
Choreography by Imogen Knight
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Tickets
For more information on Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour and to buy tickets costing between £26 to £10, over 60s concessions £16 and other concessions between £18 to £6 call Live Theatre’s box office on (0191) 232 1232 or see www.live.org.uk.
Tour Dates:
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, (18 to 30 August);
Tron Theatre, Glasgow (8 to 12 September);
Lemon Tree, Aberdeen (15 & 16 September);
One Touch
Theatre, Eden Court, Inverness (18 & 19 September);
Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy, Fife (22 & 23 September);
The Brunton, Musselburgh (25 & 26 September);
Live Theatre, Newcastle upon
Tyne (1 to 24 October).
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