Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, described as a wild and tender play meets gig about singing, sex and Sambuca, is returning to stages in Scotland and the UK, and touring for the first time to London and the USA in 2016 with the entire original cast and creative team.
The play, that was adapted from Scottish writer Alan Warner’s cult novel The Sopranos adapted by Newcastle writer Lee Hall and directed by Royal Court Theatre Artistic Director, Vicky Featherstone, premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2015. There it enjoyed a successful sell-out run at the Traverse Theatre, earning both critical and audience acclaim, and picking up four awards before embarking on a sell-out Scottish tour and run at Newcastle’s Live Theatre.
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour is a story of six girls on the cusp of change whose lives all spiral out of control in a single day that features a soundtrack of classical music and ‘70s pop rock, with music by Handel, Bach and ELO. It will receive its London premiere in summer 2016, at the Dorfman Theatre, at the National Theatre of Great Britain
This production marks the National Theatre of Scotland’s return to the National Theatre in London, following the sell-out run of The James Plays, co-produced with the National Theatre of Great Britain in 2014 and touring again in 2016, as well as marking Vicky Featherstone’s directorial debut at the theatre. Lee Hall and Live Theatre’s The Pitman Painters was co-produced by the National Theatre of Great Britain in 2009.
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Touring to Brighton Festival at Theatre Royal Brighton (17 to 21 May 2016); the Lomond Auditorium, SECC, Glasgow (24 to 28 May 2016); Liverpool Playhouse (31 May to 04 June 2016); International Festival of Arts & Ideas, New Haven, Connecticut (9 to 25 June 2016); Dundee Rep Theatre (30 June to 2 July 2016); The Palace Theatre, Kilmarnock (6 to 9 July 2016); Newcastle Theatre Royal (12 to 16 July 2016); Galway International Arts Festival, Ireland (18 to 24 July 2016); The Dorfman, National Theatre of Great Britain (from August 2016- full dates tbc)