Lee Hall's THE PITMEN PAINTERS comes to the Lyceum Theatre, Jun 3-8
Originally produced by Newcastle's acclaimed Live Theatre, and following sell-out seasons at The National Theatre, on Broadway and in London's West End, the multi award-winning play, The Pitmen Painters, takes to the Lyceum stage from Monday 3 - Saturday 8 June.
Written by Lee Hall (Billy Elliot, Cooking With Elvis), The Pitmen Paintersfollows a group of Ashington miners in 1934, who hired a professor to teach an art appreciation evening class. Rapidly abandoning theory in favour of practice, the pitmen began to paint. Within a few years the most avant-garde artists became their friends and their work was acquired by prestigious collections; but every day they worked, as before, down the mine.
Joe Caffrey (Billy Elliott - The Musical¸ Bridget Jones - The Edge of Reason) will star alongside Louis Hilyer (Walander), Riley Jones (ITV's Vera), Nicholas Lumley (Parade's End, Auf Wierdersehen Pet) and Donald McBride (ITV's Emmerdale).
Examining the lives of a group of ordinary men who do extraordinary things, The Pitmen Painters is a humorous but deeply moving and timely look at art, class and politics.
Tickets for The Pitmen Painters can be purchased from Sheffield Theatres' Box Office in-person, by phone on 0114 249 6000 or online at sheffieldtheatres.co.uk and are priced from £13.00, with discounts available.
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