Finborough Theatre YOU MAY GO NOW - A MARRIAGE PLAY

You May Go NOW - A MARRIAGE PLAY THE EUROPEAN PREMIERE by Bekah Brunstetter 

Directed by Ellie Browning. Designed by Joe Schermoly. Lighting by Jacob Mason-Dixon.
Sound Design by George Dennis. Costume Design by Katy Mills.
Cast includes: Ryan Early. Florence Hall. Ryan Hawley. Lucy Newman-Williams.

The European premiere of You May Go Now, winner of the New York Innovative Theatre Awards for Outstanding Full Length Script 2008, and written by multi-award-winning new American playwright - and Playwright-in-Residence at the Finborough Theatre, Bekah Brunstetter, opens at the Finborough Theatre on Sunday, 7 March 2010 (Press Night: Monday, 8 March 2010) for six Sunday and Monday performances, as part of the [ NEW YEAR | NEW PLAYS SEASON ], celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Finborough Theatre.

Dottie has trained Betty to be the perfect 1950s housewife: to cook, to clean and to warm her husband's slippers. Now Betty turns eighteen and it's time for her to be released into the big wide world, except the world is that of 2010 - vast, complex, dirty - and quick to throw up ghosts from their past. Now the biscuits are burning, there's blood on the Linoleum, and the twisted reality beneath the sugar coating is just about to reveal itself.

Kitsch and comic, You May Go Now is a gingham-clad take on the more sinister side of marriage from one of America's most exciting new playwrights.

"A fiendishly clever social satire" The Star-Ledger, New Jersey

Playwright Bekah Brunstetter is a Playwright-in-Residence at the Finborough Theatre and received her UK debut at the Finborough Theatre in March 2009 with Oohrah! (which also recently received its US premiere at the Atlantic Theater, New York City) and was featured in Vibrant! - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights in October 2009 with Green . Bekah is also Resident Playwright of Ars Nova, New York and a member of the Women's Project Writers Lab. She is the winner of the New York Innovative Theater Award for Best Original Full-Length Play and twice winner of the Samuel French Short Play Festival. Her work has received acclaim across the United States and has been produced at Boston Theatre Works, the Ohio Theater, The ALLIANCE THEATRE and many others. She is director of New Play Development for Working Man's Clothes Productions, New York City, and works with groups at the Playwright's Center and At Play Productions. Her other plays include To Ninevah (New York Innovative Theater Award for Best New Full Length Play 2006), Sick (Winner, Samuel French Short Play Festival 2006), f-ing Art (Winner, Samuel French Short Play Festival 2008) and Avocado (King's Head Theatre).

Director Ellie Browning is a former Resident Assistant Director at the Finborough Theatre where she has worked on Untitled, The Killing of Mr Toad and Death of Long Pig.

Ryan Early's credits include The Hounding of David Oluwale (Hackney Empire and National Tour), All Quiet On The Western Front (Nottingham Playhouse and National Tour), War and Peace (Royal Court Theatre and Latitude Festival), Starseeker (Royal and DernGate Theatres, Northampton), The Eleventh Capital, Some Voices, Teeth 'N' Smiles (Royal Court Theatre), The Knight of the Burning Pestle (Young Vic and Barbican), About Face (Almeida Studio), Oliver Twist (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, and National Tour), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare's Globe), The Servant (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith), Spring And Port Wine (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and One Life And Counting (Bush Theatre). Television and Film credits include Casualty, The Bill, Doctors, An Acre of Moon and Red Tails. Florence Hall's credits include Middlemarch (Richmond Theatre), The Kitchen, In A Foreign Bed, As You Like It, The Second Mrs Tanqueray, You Can't Take It With You, The Changeling, The Prince of Homburg, Paradise Lost and Richard III (Drama Centre). Television includes Jonathan Creek. Ryan Hawley's credits include Letting in Air (Old Red Lion Theatre) and The History Boys (National Theatre and National Tour). Television and film credits include Red Tails, The Royal, Survivors and Doctors. Lucy Newman-Williams' credits include Macbeth, Hamlet and Two Gentlemen of Verona (Folger Theatre, Washington DC). Television and Film credits include The Wire, Homicide: Life on the Streets, A Dirty Shame, Head of State and Deep Impact.

Sundays and Mondays - 7, 8, 14, 15, 21 and 22 March 2010
Evenings at 7.30pm.
Tickets £13, £9 concessions
Performance Length: Approximately 2 hours.
Box Office: 0844 847 1652