ATC's THE EVENTS Set for UK Tour; Kicks Off this Month at Edinburgh Fringe Fest

The Actors Touring Company, Young Vic Theatre, Brageteatret & Schauspielhaus Wien will take their co-production, THE EVENTS, written by David Greig, on the road beginning this month. Directed by Ramin Gray, with music by John Browne, the show will play Edinburgh Fringe Fest before launching into a full UK tour. The entire itinerary is below.

Screams reverberate through corridors. A forest echoes with the sound of gunfire. Innocent blood is shed and lives ripped apart. As the wounds on a community are left gaping, a young choir leader begins her quest to heal and to understand.

Acclaimed director Ramin Gray teams up with celebrated playwright David Greig with a bold new work that explores the impact of a horrific politically motivated crime on a small community and delves into the nature of forgiveness, reconciliation and understanding.

The Events asks how far forgiveness will stretch in the face of atrocity. Featuring local choirs and a soaring soundtrack by Irish composer John Browne, what unfolds is a tale of tragedy, obsession and our destructive desire to fathom the unfathomable.

Ramin Gray and David Greig last worked together on the critically praised RSC production of Gray's play The American Pilot. Gray's previous work for ATC to be seen at the Traverse was the double bill of Illusions and Sarah Kane's Crave ("profound, beautiful and terrifying." The Herald) and before that The Golden Dragon ('Ramin Gray's superb touring production for ATC' The Daily Telegraph).

David Greig's recent plays include Midsummer, Dunsinane, and The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart and the new West End stage musical of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Ramin Gray is ATC's Artistic Director. Previously he was International Associate, then Associate Director at The Royal Court Theatre where he directed many world or British premieres by playwrights including Simon Stephens' Motortown, Marius von Mayenburg's The Ugly One and The Stone, and Mark Ravenhill's Over There. He has also directed at the RSC, Out of Joint, The Gate and in many theatres across Europe. Opera credits include the European premiere of Bliss by Brett Dean and Benjamin Britten's Death in Venice at Hamburg's Staatsoper and Theater an der Wien. Immediately prior to directing The Events, Ramin directed the premiere of the opera The Importance of Being Earnest by Gerald Barry at The Royal Opera House Covent Garden's Linbury Studio.

John Browne's works have been performed at the Royal Opera House (Babette's Feast, Demon Juice), English National Opera (Early Earth Operas, Midnight's Children), Southbank Centre (A Nightingale Sang) and Westminster Abbey (Small Selves, Out of Suffering). In the last few years he has been composer-in-residence at FNSNM, Kings College London, created choral arrangements for the band Elbow, composed the score for The Itch of the Golden Nit, a BAFTA award-winning film by Aardman, been an adjudicator for BBC Young Musician of the Year 2012, created a music-theatre piece in Rwanda and run workshops for the British Council in China and India.

Actors Touring Company presents the best international Contemporary Theatre, using the theatre to tell stories from different perspectives from around the world. The company collaborates with a broad range of UK and interNational Theatre makers, commissioning writers, sourcing the best international scripts and translating them into English for the first time, and reaching audiences through their extensive UK and international touring programme. They are currently working on projects with artists from Belarus, Iran, Israel, Russia, Spain, the UK and Ukraine.

Tour Itinerary:

31 July to 25
August Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Traverse Theatre (times vary)
Tickets: £13 - £18 (concs from £6)
www.traverse.co.uk - 0131 228 1404

17 -21 September
Glasgow The Tron Theatre 8pm
Tickets: £12 (£8 concessions) Tue - Thu & £16 (£12 concessions) Fri - Sat
www.tron.co.uk - 0141 552 4267

24-26 September
Oxford: North Wall Arts Centre 8pm Tickets: £13 (concs £11) www.thenorthwall.org - 01865 319450

1-5 October
Dublin Theatre Festival - Peacock Theatre, Abbey Theatre 8pm
Tickets: !20 - !25
www.abbeytheatre.ie - +353 (0)1 87 87 222

9 October - 2 November
London: Young Vic Theatre 7:45pm, Saturday matinees 2.45pm
press night 14 October
Tickets: £10, £19.50
www.youngvic.org - 020 7922 2922

5 - 10 November
Hull: Hull Truck Theatre 8pm Tickets: £12 - £18 (£3 off concessions) www.hulltruck.co.uk - 01482 323638

12 - 16 November
Bristol: Bristol Old Vic Theatre (Studio) 8pm Tickets: £12/ £8
www.bristololdvic.org.uk - 0117 987 7877

19 - 23 November
Birmingham: Birmingham Repertory Theatre (Studio) 7.45pm
Tickets £12, £15
www.birmingham-rep.co.uk - 0121 236 4455

26 - 30 November
Plymouth Drum Theatre 8pm Tickets: £14/ £10 concessions www.theatreroyal.com - 01752 267222

For more information, visit www.atctheatre.com.

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