Reaching for the Stars with your Trainers in the 'Fridge

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014 will include this warm, funny and brave new play. We will be playing at C venues from 10 to 25 August and would love to see you there!

Here's some info on the play to whet your appetite.

Award-winning play from ex-Brookside Actress

Former Brookside actress Angela Walsh (Carol Salter) wrote her first play last year and was thrilled when it won the Best Production award at Liverpool’s prestigious new-writing festival, Write Now 2013. 

                
The play is based on events in Walsh's own family and her experience of teaching drama to people with learning disabilities. She describes it as 'a bitter-sweet story about learning to sing and get on a bus; about Shakespeare and real chips: about caring, and about holding onto love.'

The Road to Skibbereen is directed by Sarah Van Parys who has just completed the first year of post-graduate training as a young director at Liverpool's leading theatre company the Everyman Playhouse. Van Parys is reuniting most of the original, award-winning cast for this production.

The play is Straylight Australia's fifth at C venues and marks a return to contemporary work for the company, which has recently focussed on Shakespeare’s female characters (Shakespeare’s Mothers, 2010; Shakespeare’s Queens, 2012). 

‘Wonderful performance… Heart-warming’ RemoteGoat.com

 ‘Very powerful…  The play to catch’ Roger Phillips, BBC Radio Merseyside