Olivier Winner Paul Clarkson Leads A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE in London Premiere, 11/11

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A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE will make its European premiere beginning November 11th at the Union Theatre in London. The production will star Olivier winner Paul Clarkson as Alfie Byrne. A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE features a book by Terrence McNally with music and lyrics by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens.

Based on a 1994 independent film starring Albert Finney, A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE is about the journey of self-discovery and acceptance of Alfie Byrne, a Dublin bus conductor who is prone to reciting poetry to the patrons on his bus. He is also the director of the local community theatre, which operates out of a small parish hall in the neighborhood church. Alfie's passengers are also his performers: amateur thespians that come to see the magic the theatre offers through Alfie's eyes.

They inhabit the world of working-class Dublin in the 1960s, a world where the budding sexual freedom happening in other places is barely whispered about. Through the book by Terrence McNally, and the lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, the team that wrote Ragtime The Musical now shine their light on A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, illuminating the feeling of being an outsider and the universal need to love and be loved in return.

A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE opens at the Union Theatre on November 11th and plays through December 5th. Performances take place Tuesday through Saturday at 7:30pm and Sunday at 3pm. Tickets are £15.

For more information, visit the Union Theatre's website at uniontheatre.biz.

 

 

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