LAGO Theatre Presents Season of Accessible Theatre For Working-Class Writers, Actors And Audiences

This September, LAGO Theatre will present their first-ever season of three plays in the heart of London's West End at the Tristan Bates Theatre.

Playing from Tuesday 18 September - Saturday 6 October, LAGO Theatre is unique in its aim to present accessible theatre for working-class writers, actors and audiences with a season of plays that put real-world issues under the microscope and on the stage. This series of highly relevant plays address a number of current hot topics including the male suicide epidemic, the privatisation of the NHS and the conflicting opinions surrounding abortion.

The season consists of three one hour plays written by co-Founder and Artistic Director of LAGO Theatre, Jack West; Revelation 1:18, No Help Sent and Wine. For the first time, Scott Le Crass and Harry Blumenau will direct for LAGO Theatre; directing No Help Sent and Wine respectively.

Following a critically acclaimed run at Etcetera Theatre, No Help Sent magnifies the overwhelming lengths people will go to in order to help those they love when the people who were supposed to protect them, have failed them. The NHS has been privatised, their best friend has cancer and there are no more options. Fearing the worst, they'll do whatever it takes.

Wine returns to the Tristan Bates Theatre following a sell-out run earlier this year. This gripping real time drama bluntly confronts both sides of the abortion argument. It's their second first date. She's living out her Hollywood dream whilst he's still living with his brother. As secrets of the past creep up on them, it's time to bring out their safe word. Wine.

Revelation 1:18 faces the growing male suicide epidemic, uncovering how toxic masculinity and the continual desire for validation can lead to the unimaginable. Reuniting for a farewell gig in the city where it all began, a band on the brink of mega stardom ask; why live the life when we could leave a legacy?

Writer and LAGO Theatre's artistic director Jack West, said: "I'm extremely proud at how far LAGO have come in just a few short years of hard work and constant re-evaluation of what we're trying to achieve. To have all three of these shows, playing in rep in London, is a dream come true".

Joel Fisher, Creative Producer of the Tristan Bates Theatre, said: "LAGO Theatre are exactly what the future of our industry looks like - actors making work for themselves, exploring stories they want to tell and doing it steadily so as to make work of extremely high quality. I can't wait to have them back at the Tristan Bates this September"

Casting for the season includes Rob Hadden (Imagine This, Union Theatre and The Little Match Girl, Tabard Theatre), Joshua Glenister (Ghost About the House, Kings Head Theatre and Wonderland, Nottingham Playhouse), Oliver Buckner (Much Ado About Nothing, The Lord Chamberlains Men and The Silver Sword, National Tour) Harriet Clarke (Wine, Tristan Bates Theatre and Girls Like That, Liverpool Playhouse) Peter Lofsgaard (No Help Sent, Liverpool Playhouse) and Tobi Faladé making his theatrical debut.

The LAGO Season runs at the Tristan Bates Theatre from Tuesday 18 September - Saturday 6th October. Audiences can purchase tickets to a single show in the season for £15; two shows for £25, and all three productions can be seen for £36 - visit tristanbatestheatre.co.uk or call 020 3841 6600.

LAGO is now taking submissions from new writers with work that is yet to receive a professional production, lagotheatre.com.

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