Good Night Out Presents THE YORK REALIST September 22-October 11

On 7th September Peter Gill OBE, Founder Director of Riverside Studios celebrates his 70th Birthday. This will be the first Peter Gill script to be performed at Riverside Studios since 1980.

Directed by: Adam Spreadbury-Maher, Designed by: Kate Guinness, Lighting Design by: Steve Lowe

Set on the brink of major social change in the early 1960's, The York Realist is the poignant love story of two young men from diverse backgrounds, who are being pulled apart by cultural barriers and family allegiances.

After meeting at rehearsals for a local staging of the York Mystery Plays, middle-class theatre director John asks Yorkshire farm labourer George to return with him to London. George is faced with an agonising decision that highlights the depth of family roots and furthermore questions the ownership of Art in an England fractured by class.

A key figure in British theatre for over fifty years, Peter Gill founded Riverside Studios, and the Royal National Theatre Studio. The York Realist premiered in 2001 at The Lowry, produced by English Touring Theatre. It went on to be performed at Bristol Old Vic, the Royal Court and transferred to the Strand Theatre. It was nominated for Best New Play at the Olivier Awards and Evening Standard Theatre Awards and won the Critics Circle Award for Best New Play. In August 2009 he is directing the world premiere of his new play Another Door Closed at the Theatre Royal, Bath.

Theatre company Good Night Out Presents formed in August 2008. After a residency at The White Bear Theatre, they now manage The c*ckTavern Theatre, Kilburn. Their world premiere of Studies For A Portrait (Time Out Critics' Choice) recently transferred to Oval House for a month long run.

Adam Spreadbury-Maher is Artistic Director of The c*ckTavern Theatre, Kilburn and resident company Good Night Out Presents. He won an Australia Critics' Circle Award in 2004 for his production of Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing. Adam has directed works by Joe Orton (ANU Arts Centre, Australia); Alan Ayckbourn (New End Theatre); Nathan Osgood (Arcola Theatre); Daniel Reitz (Oval House); Louis Nowra (White Bear Theatre) Ayub Khan-Din (Etcetera Theatre) and revivals by Stephen Fry and Nick Ward (both at The c*ckTavern Theatre). Recent credits include The Ides of March (Time Out 4-stars) and Studies For A Portrait (Time Out Critics' Choice). Current projects include a production of La Boheme to be staged at The c*ckTavern Theatre later this year.

Venue: Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, Hammersmith, London W6 9RL
Dates & Times: 22nd September - 11th October

Tuesday - Saturday: 7.30pm, Sunday: 6pm. Matinee: Saturday 10th October: 2pm

Box Office: 020 8237 1111 / www.riversidestudios.co.uk
Tickets: £14 (£12 concessions)

Post-Show Talks: Wednesday 30th September: Peter Gill and director Adam Spreadbury-Maher.

Friday 2nd October: Michael Billington and Josie Rourke on "Class and Theatre".

 

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