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Paines Plough Announces Full Programme for Roundabout @ Summerhall 2017 PRESS RELEASE 11.05.17 www.painesplough.com / @painesplough / #PP2017 / Theatre. Everywhere. PAINES PLOUGH ANNOUNCES FULL PROGRAMME FOR ROUNDABOUT @ SUMMERHALL 2017 PROGRAMME 2017 TRAILER CAN BE VIEWED HERE IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH ORANGE TREE THEATRE AND THEATR CLWYD, ROUNDABOUT @ SUMMERHALL FEATURES THREE WORLD PREMIERES BY BRAD BIRCH, ELINOR COOK AND SARAH MCDONALD-HUGHES ALL THREE WORLD PREMIERES WILL STAR HASAN DIXON, KATIE ELIN-SALT AND SALLY MESSHAM PAINES PLOUGH WILL ALSO WELCOME EIGHT VISITING COMPANIES INCLUDING MIDDLE CHILD, DIRTY PROTEST, NABOKOV AND ROYAL COURT THEATRE ROUNDABOUT’S LATER PROGRAMME WILL FEATURE COMEDIANS, MUSICIANS AND PERFORMERS TO BE ANNOUNCED AHEAD OF THE FRINGE TICKETS ARE ON SALE TODAY HERE IMAGES FOR ROUNDABOUT @ SUMMERHALL CAN BE DOWNLOADED HERE USERNAME: PP2017 | PASSWORD: PP2017 Co-Artistic Directors of Paines Plough James Grieve and George Perrin today revealed the full programme of new writing filling ROUNDABOUT @ SUMMERHALL, kicking off at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe before a UK tour in Autumn 2017. This year, Paines Plough in co-production with Orange Tree Theatre and Theatr Clwyd will stage three World Premieres from Brad Birch, Elinor Cook and Sarah McDonald-Hughes who will treat audiences to a tense psychological thriller, a thirty-year friendship between two childhood friends and a lesson in how to not grow up. All three productions will star Hasan Dixon, Katie Elin-Salt and Sally Messham. Joining the three world premieres will be Middle Child and Hull UK City of Culture’s All We Ever Wanted Was Everything by Luke Barnes; Monsay Whitney’s new play Box Clever produced by nabokov and The Marlowe; the Royal Court Theatre’s sold-out production of MANWATCHING; Dirty Protest’s Sugar Baby penned by Alan Harris; and Nilaja Sun’s latest show PIKE ST. Paines Plough will also welcome back Sam Steiner’s Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons following its sell-out run at Roundabout in 2016; Stacey Gregg’s Fringe First winner Scorch; Jonny & the Baptists with a celebration of their silliest and most satirical songs; and Duncan Macmillan’s universally acclaimed Every Brilliant Thing. James Grieve and George Perrin said today: “We're proud to present our ROUNDABOUT @ SUMMERHALL line-up for 2017, packed with outstanding new plays from around the UK. Our Roundabout rep features three world premieres with Brad Birch's edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller BLACK MOUNTAIN, Elinor Cook's sublime story of female friendship OUT OF LOVE and Sarah McDonald-Hughes' magical, moving HOW TO BE A KID. All three plays will be performed by an ensemble of superb, shapeshifting actors Hasan Dixon, Katie Elin-Salt and Sally Messham. We’re also welcoming some of the UK's most innovative and exciting new writing companies and playwrights to Roundabout. Our Associate Company Middle Child present Luke Barnes’ ode to growing up and dancing in Hull ALL WE EVER WANTED WAS EVERYTHING, nabokov and The Marlowe present the World Premiere of Monsay Whitney’s BOX CLEVER, the essential MANWATCHING, written by an anonymous woman, joins us direct from it sold-out run at The Royal Court and Cardiff's Dirty Protest present Alan Harris' new play SUGAR BABY. From across the Atlantic, we're proud to present the UK Premiere of PIKE ST. by celebrated New York writer Nilaja Sun. We’ll be welcoming back old friends Sam Steiner with LEMONS LEMONS LEMONS LEMONS LEMONS, Stacey Gregg with last year's Fringe First winner SCORCH and Jonny & the Baptists with the best of their brilliance. And for one week only our worldwide smash hit EVERY BRILLIANT THING is back in ROUNDABOUT @ SUMMERHALL. Our LATER programme returns with an eclectic mix of electric new work from the very best companies, comedians, musicians and more throughout the Fringe so keep an eye on our social channels for announcements.” 2017 marks the fourth year of Roundabout, Paines Plough’s award-winning plug-in-and- play theatre. The Roundabout season will preview from 24 June to 22 July at Theatr Clwyd before once again taking up residency at Summerhall during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe from 4 – 27 August. Following ROUNDABOUT @ SUMMERHALL, Roundabout will embark on a UK tour with Black Mountain, How To Be A Kid and Out of Love. Visiting Salford, Kendal, Margate, Lincoln, Darlington, Poole, Stoke and Luton in Autumn 2017, the three plays will also run at the Orange Tree in London in Spring 2018. Paines Plough presents Black Mountain by Brad Birch. A Paines Plough, Theatr Clwyd and Orange Tree Theatre production – World Premiere How To Be A Kid by Sarah McDonald-Hughes. A Paines Plough, Theatr Clwyd and Orange Tree Theatre production – World Premiere Out of Love by Elinor Cook. A Paines Plough, Theatr Clwyd and Orange Tree Theatre production – World Premiere Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe. A Paines Plough and Pentabus Theatre Company production. * Roundabout 2017 Visiting Companies All We Ever Wanted Was Everything by Luke Barnes. Middle Child and Hull UK City of Culture Box Clever by Monsay Whitney. nabokov and The Marlowe – World Premiere Jonny & the Baptists: The Best of 2012 – 2017. Supporting Wall Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons by Sam Steiner. A Walrus production. MANWATCHING, written by an anonymous woman. Presented by Royal Court Theatre. PIKE ST. by Nilaja Sun. Barrow Street Productions – European Premiere Scorch by Stacey Gregg. Prime Cut Productions. Sugar Baby by Alan Harris. Presented by Dirty Protest. Paines Plough presents ROUNDABOUT @ SUMMERHALL 2017 A Paines Plough, Theatr Clwyd and Orange Tree Theatre production BLACK MOUNTAIN By Brad Birch Rebecca and Paul are running away. Away from memories and mistakes. They’re trying to save their relationship. They need time and space. An isolated house in the country is the perfect place to work things out. They set themselves rules: they have to be honest, they have to listen and they have to be fair. But you can’t run forever. Especially when you’re being followed. Black Mountain is a tense psychological thriller about betrayal and forgiveness by Fringe First winner and recipient of the prestigious Harold Pinter Commission, Brad Birch. Time: 1.25pm (70 mins) Dates: 5, 7, 10, 12, 14, 17, 19, 21, 24, 26 August. PRESS PERFORMANCE: 7 August * A Paines Plough, Theatr Clwyd and Orange Tree Theatre production OUT OF LOVE By Elinor Cook Lorna and Grace do everything together. They share crisps, cigarettes and crushes. That's what happens when you're best friends forever. But when Lorna gets a place at University, and Grace gets pregnant, they suddenly find themselves in starkly different worlds. Can anything bridge the gap between them? A tale of friendship, love and rivalry over thirty years from award-winning playwright Elinor Cook. Elinor Cook is the Winner of the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright (2013). Time: 1.25pm (70 mins) Dates: 4, 6, 9, 11, 13, 16, 18, 20, 23, 25, 27 August. PRESS PERFORMANCE: 6 August * A Paines Plough, Theatr Clwyd and Orange Tree Theatre production HOW TO BE A KID By Sarah McDonald-Hughes Molly cooks. Molly does the dishes. Molly gets her little brother Joe ready for school. Molly is only 12, but she doesn't feel much like a kid anymore. Now Molly's Mum is feeling better, maybe things will get back to normal. Can you help Molly learn how to be a kid again? Join Molly, Joe and her Nan for a larger than life story of family, friends and fitting in by Sarah McDonald-Hughes, twice nominated for the Best New Play at the Manchester Theatre Awards. Warning: Contains dancing, chocolate cake and an epic car chase. Time: 10.45am (50 mins) Dates: 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 August. * A Paines Plough and Pentabus Theatre Company production EVERY BRILLIANT THING By Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe The worldwide smash hit is back for one week only. You’re seven years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s ‘done something stupid’. She finds it hard to be happy. You make a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world. Everything worth living for. 1. Ice cream 2. Water fights 3. Staying up past your bedtime and being allowed to watch TV 4. The colour yellow 5. Things with stripes 6. Rollercoasters 7. People falling over A play about depression and the lengths we go to for those we love. Based on true and untrue stories. Time: 12.00pm (60 mins) Dates: 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 August. * Middle Child and Hull UK City of Culture 2017 ALL WE EVER WANTED WAS EVERYTHING By Luke Barnes Meet Leah and Chris; raised on Harry Potter, New Labour and a belief they would be special. But what happens when dreams don’t become reality? Set over three decades, from Cool Britannia to Brexit Britain, this is gig theatre from the award-winning team behind Weekend Rockstars. Time: 8.45pm (75 mins) Dates: 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 August. * nabokov and The Marlowe BOX CLEVER By Monsay Whitney “Ever get the feeling you’re going round in one big circle? Ten years. Back and forth between a trio of arseholes and nothing to show for it except a baby, an Argos ring and a busted nose. At the refuge they call that a pattern.” Moving, truthful and darkly comic, Box Clever by nabokov’s associate-playwright Monsay Whitney, with music performed by Avi Simmons, is a new play about one woman’s experience of a refuge and a mother’s commitment to do the best for her daughter.
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