STAGE TUBE: COUNTING STARS Opens Tonight Theatre Royal Stratford East

Theatre Royal Stratford East's new season opens with Counting Stars by award-winning playwright and newly appointed Writer in Residence Atiha Sen Gupta. The stage will be transformed into a studio format nightclub installation where you sit on the stage for this funny yet heart-breaking tale directed by Associate Director, Pooja Ghai. Doors will open at 7:15pm for music and a bar on stage to soak up the atmosphere before the show. The experience will start then.

Ghai directs Estella Daniels as Sophie and Lanre Malaolu as Abiodun. The production opens tonight 1 September and runs until 17 September. Click below to watch the first trailer for the show!

Delving into the underworld of a London nightclub, Counting Stars examines the degrading working conditions of some of Britain's most exploited people through the prism of the doomed love story of toilet attendants Abiodun and Sophie, who exist on tips alone. Counting Stars is a heart-felt and funny portrait of immigrant life.

Estella Daniels plays Sophie. Her theatre credits include Racing Demon (Sheffield Crucible), The Eumenedies (The Rag Factory), Dirty Butterfly and Festa (Young Vic) and Iya-Ile (The First Wife) (Soho Theatre); and for television Sinbad, Death In Paradise and Da Vinci's Demons.

Lanre Malaolu plays Abiodun. His theatre credits include Karagula (Deus Ex Machina Productions), The Jew of Malta, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Marat/Sade (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Internet Is Serious Business (Royal Court), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Park Theatre), Springtime (Greenwich Theatre), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Almedia Theatre), Macbeth (Globe Theatre) and The Woods (Company of Angels). For television his credits include Remainder, The Armstrong & Miller Show, Harley's Angels and Driving Me Mad; and for film, Fallout, Cherries, Inkheart and Forever Friends.

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