Gary McNair Brings LETTERS TO MORRISSEY to HOME

Award-winning actor and playwright Gary McNair makes his second appearance at HOME on Tue 12 - Sat 16 September 2017 with touching new show Letters To Morrissey, produced by Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre Company.

Directed by Gareth Nicholls, the theatre's associate director, Letters To Morrissey follows up McNair's Edinburgh Festival Fringe First hit A Gambler's Guide to Dying, which featured in HOME's Orbit festival in 2016.

McNair's affectionate one-man show is the final part of a trilogy of often darkly comic works drawing on the joys and struggles of growing up in working class Scotland, explored through letters written to The Smiths' front-man Morrissey at the turn of the millennium by a conflicted teenager from the outskirts of Glasgow.

It's 1997. You're 11. You're sad, lonely, and scared of doing anything that could get you singled out by the hopeless, angry people in your home town. One day you see a man on telly. He's mumbling, yet electrifying. He sings: "I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does." This guy gets it. You become obsessed with him. Later, when you need someone, you write to him. A lot.

Fast-forward to today, 20 years on. You find those letters and ask yourself: "Has the world changed, or have I changed?" Letters To Morrissey is about confronting the worst thing you've done - and hoping that you can still be good person.

Coming to HOME direct from this year's Edinburgh Festival, where it world premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Letters To Morrissey considers our human desire to be understood, and about finding potentially false kinship in an icon you don't actually know.

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PERFORMANCE CALENDAR

Tue 12 Sept 2017 19:45 (press night performance)

Wed 13 Sept 2017 19:45

Thu 14 Sept 2017 19:45

Fri 15 Sept 2017 19:45

Sat 16 Sept 2017 14:00

Sat 16 Sept 2017 19:45

TICKETS

£12.50 (£10.50 concessions).

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