OUR LADIES OF PERPETUAL SUCCOUR to Launch UK, International Tour

By: Apr. 04, 2016
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Touring to from 17 May to 1 October 2016: Brighton Festival at Theatre Royal Brighton; SECC, Glasgow ; Liverpool Playhouse; International Festival of Arts & Ideas, New Haven, Connecticut ; Dundee Rep Theatre ; The Palace Theatre, Kilmarnock ; Newcastle Theatre Royal; Galway International Arts Festival, Ireland and The Dorfman, National Theatre of Great Britain.

Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, the critically-acclaimed stage adaptation of Alan Warner's cult Scottish novel The Sopranos, by Lee Hall and directed by Vicky Featherstone is back by popular demand, returning to stages in Scotland and the UK, and touring for the first time to London and the USA in 2016. Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 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.

Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour will receive its London premiere in summer 2016, at the Dorfman Theatre, at the National Theatre of Great Britain. This marks the National Theatre of Scotland's return to the National Theatre in London, following the sell-out run of The James Plays, co-produced with the National Theatre of Great Britain in 2014 and touring again in 2016, as well as marking Vicky Featherstone's directorial debut at the theatre. Lee Hall and Live Theatre's The Pitman Painters was co-produced by the National Theatre of Great Britain in 2009.

Alan Warner's novel and Lee Hall's musical 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. Funny, sad, rude and beautifully sung, Our Ladies .... is a tribute to being young, lost and out of control, featuring a soundtrack of classical music and 70s pop rock, with music by Handel, Bach and ELO including the songs Mr Blue Sky, Don't Bring Me Down, Long Black Road and more.

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 wild and tender play meets gig about singing, sex and sambuca.

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.

WATCH- The cast of Our Ladies sing ELO's Mr Blue Sky, live from BBC Edinburgh Nights at Potterrow during the Edinburgh Fringe 2015.

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Touring to Brighton Festival at Theatre Royal Brighton (17 to 21 May 2016); the Lomond Auditorium, SECC, Glasgow (24 to 28 May 2016); Liverpool Playhouse (31 May to 04 June 2016); International Festival of Arts & Ideas, New Haven, Connecticut (9 to 25 June 2016); Dundee Rep Theatre (30 June to 2 July 2016); The Palace Theatre, Kilmarnock (6 to 9 July 2016); Newcastle Theatre Royal (12 to 16 July 2016); Galway International Arts Festival, Ireland (18 to 24 July 2016); The Dorfman, National Theatre of Great Britain (from August 2016- full dates tbc).

Press performances on Wednesday 18 May at 7.30pm -Brighton Festival at Theatre Royal Brighton, on Tuesday 24 May at 7.30pm at the Lomond Auditorium, SECC, Glasgow in Glasgow and in August at The Dorfman, National Theatre GB. Date tbc

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