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Our
Ladies of Perpetual Succour
Newcastle
Theatre Royal
Tuesday
12th - Saturday 16th July 2016
OUR LADIES OF PERPETUAL SUCCOUR IS FUNNY, SAD AND RAUCOUSLY RUDE.
A PLAY ABOUT SINGING, SEX AND SAMBUCA.
THE CRITICALLY ACCLAMINED STAGE ADAPTATION OF ALAN WARNER’S CULT SCOTTISH NOVEL THE SOPRANOS, WILL BE ARRIVING AT NEWCASTLE THEATRE ROYAL IN JULY.
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Photo: Peter Dibdin
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Following a total sell-out success
at Live Theatre, the National
Theatre of Scotland and Newcastle Theatre Royal are thrilled to announce for
the very first time Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, the multi-award winning stage
adaptation by Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall of Alan Warner’s cult Scottish
novel The Sopranos.
The North East Theatre Guide loved the show so much
we awarded it “Best
Show of 2015” LINK: Award annoucement
LINK: Original production review
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Photo: Manuel
Harlan
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Alan Warner’s novel and Lee Hall’s
stage play tell the story of six girls on the cusp of change. Love, lust,
pregnancy and death all spiral out of control in a single day. Warner's
blisteringly funny dialogue ends in fireworks (literally). 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. With a soundtrack of classical
music and 70s pop rock, featuring music by Handel, Bach and ELO, Our Ladies… is a raucous and
life-affirming piece of musical theatre.
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Photo: Chris Auld
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Our Ladies of
Perpetual Succour premiered at the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe on 19 August 2015, and enjoyed a successful sell-out run at the
Traverse Theatre, earning critical and audience acclaim, and picking up four
awards before embarking on a sell-out Scottish tour and run at Newcastle’s Live Theatre.
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Photo: Manuel
Harlan
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Vicky Featherstone, Artistic
Director of the Royal Court Theatre, collaborates with Lee Hall, (Shakespeare in Love, 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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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 Morvern
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.
Tickets:
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Photo: Peter Dibdin
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Our Ladies of
Perpetual Succour is at Newcastle
Theatre Royal from Tuesday 12th until Saturday 16th July 2016, playing evenings at 7.30pm,
matinees on Thu 2pm and Sat 2.30pm. Tickets from £14.50.
Tickets can be purchased from the
Theatre Royal Box Office on 08448 11 21 21 Calls cost 7ppm plus your phone company’s access
charge or book online at www.theatreroyal.co.uk
Recommended
16+, contains strong language and explicit adult content of a sexual nature
which some may find offensive.
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