GAMES By Henry Naylor Comes to Adelaide Fringe

Based on a true story, Games by Henry Naylor is a cautionary tale for our times about two world-class Jewish-German athletes at Hitler's Olympics. Tackling identity, anti-semitism and the dangerous rise of far-right populism, the show was multi-award-winning sell-out success at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2018 where it received an astonishing 14 five and four star reviews. Now it will play in The Arch, Holden Street Theatres, 34 Holden Street Hindmarsh from 12 February 16 March as part of the 2019 Adelaide Fringe.

Written by three-time Fringe-First winner Henry Naylor and directed by Louise Skaaning Games by Henry Naylor is set in Berlin in 1936. It is the story of two young Jewish-German athletes: fencer Helene Mayer (played by Sophie Shad), who is selected for the Nazis' Olympic Squad and high jumper Gretel Bergmann (Tessie Orange-Turner). In a world of murderous prejudice, the duo comes to realise that they are fighting for much more than gold.

Games by Henry Naylor is presented by the team that has won more than 30 of the world's leading Fringe titles including Overall Best Theatre in 2016, and the Overall Adelaide Critics' Circle Awards in 2017 and 2018.

Henry Naylor is a multi-award-winning UK playwright, who has been described as 'one of our best new playwrights' in The Times, 'one of our best new playwrights' in The Evening Standard, and 'one of the most thought-provoking playwrights of our times', in The Spectator.

In the past three and a half years his plays have won, or been nominated for, 34 international awards, including one of France's most prestigious awards for the arts, the Globes De Cristal. In 2016, he joined J.K. Rowling in having written one of the 10 Best Plays Of The Year by The Times. He is one of only a handful of writers to have won the Fringe First three times, and has won four of the top five Fringe awards at the Edinburgh Fringe, including the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award. The one he hasn't won - the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award he's been nominated for three times. Three of his plays have had month-long runs off-Broadway, and in 2017 alone there were more than 300 public performances of his work over five continents. His work has been translated into eight languages.

Games by Henry Naylor plays; 12-13 & 16-17 Feb; 19 Feb - 2 Mar; 5 - 9 Mar: 8:00pm 14 Feb; 12-16 Mar: 6:30pm 16 Feb; 23-24 Feb; 2 -3 Mar; 9-10 Mar; 16 Mar: 1:00pm 13 Feb: 12:15pm 13 & 14 Mar: 10:45am.

Tickets are priced from $18.00 - $28.00 and may be purchased through FringeTix
or www.holdenstreettheatres.com
Companion Card holders welcome.

Duration: 60 Minutes

Holden Street Theatres - The Arch
34 Holden Street, Hindmarsh SA.