Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING
Adapted for the stage by Matthew Dunster
from the novel by Alan Sillitoe

Directed by Matthew Dunster
Designed by Anna Fleischle

The Royal Exchange Theatre
St Ann’s Square, Manchester
Thursday 1 March – Saturday 7 April
PRESS NIGHT: Monday 5 March at 7.30pm

Acclaimed young director Matthew Dunster is set to return to Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre with his own adaptation of Allan Sillitoe’s groundbeaking novel SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING from Thursday 1 March to Saturday 7 April 2012.

Funny and heart-rending, this brutally honest portrait of working class manhood offers a terrifying glimpse into an age where work, booze and death were all that Britain's young men had to look forward to.

By turns heart-warming, ferocious and comic, the action of the play is set in 1950s Nottingham. It centres on rebellious young factory worker Arthur Seaton who works hard and plays dirty.

He has reasons to fight, reasons to drink and several girls on the go. But when the fun and risk of Saturday night turns into the hangover and bruises of Sunday morning, Arthur starts to understand the real meaning of love.

Matthew Dunster directs this world premiere of his own punchy new stage version of the original iconic novel - fusing kitchen sink realism with a stunning theatrical vocabulary. His previous successes for the Royal Exchange include MACBETH,  his own adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 and the Bruntwood Prize winning play MOGADISHU.

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Published: 9-Feb-2012: (1072)