The Lost Theatre to Present PROUD, July 27 - Aug. 12

To celebrate the Olympics coming to London, this great city’s newest purpose built theatre is presenting John Stanley’s vibrant and ultimately moving comedy about a young man’s quest for Gold, both in his career and in his personal life.

Lewis is a Team GB Boxing hopeful for 2012 and he has the most important fight of his careerapproaching. Unfortunatelythispotentiallylifechangingeventcoincideswithan equally important occasion for his boyfriend Tom – the anniversary of an even more life- changing event.

Things come to a head at Lewis’s eighteenth birthday party, organised for him by his

adoring and proud mum, Rachel. She has no problems with him being gay but on the evening of the party it becomes abundantly clear that Lewis may not have been entirely honest with everyone about who and what he is. Throw into the mix his down-trodden older sister, his bigoted boxing trainer and Tom’s highly unimpressed lesbian friend Ally and you can be assured that this will be an eighteenth birthday to remember.

LOST’s policy is to promote and encourage young people to make the most of their talents and opportunities. Up and coming twenty three-year-old director Oliver Jack has chosen this play to reflect just that, at a time when the hopes and fears of so many young people aroundtheworldwillbedashedorrealisedinJuly. Stanley’suptotheminutecomedy dares to ask difficult questions about what it is to be proud in London in 2012.

“Proud” premiered as part of the “New Voices” Festival at the New Wimbledon Theatre Studio in 2009. This new version has been especially revised for LOST by the author, with the award winning playwright Patrick Wilde as script consultant.