The Pride

Direct from the West End, the critically acclaimed production of
The Pride
Starring Harry Haddon-Paton, Mathew Horne,
Naomi Sheldon and Al Weaver
Directed by Jamie Lloyd
Opera House Manchester
Monday 20 - riday 24 January 2014

Director Jamie Lloyd’s third production for his hit Trafalgar Transformed season in the West End, the multi award-winning The Pride, will be playing the Manchester Opera House this month as part of a three-week tour.

The play, which ran at London’s Trafalgar Studios last year, will play the Theatre Royal Brighton from 14 January - 18 January, the Manchester Opera House from 20 January - 24 January and the Richmond Theatre from 27 January - 1 February.

Directed by Jamie Lloyd (Donmar's Passion, Old Vic's The Duchess of Malfi, National Theatre's She Stoops to Conquer) with design by Soutra Gilmour, The Pride has been a critical and award nominated hit during its West End run.

Starring Harry Hadden-Paton (Posh, She Stoops to Conquer, Flare Path) as Philip, Mathew Horne (Gavin and Stacey, Bad Education, Charley's Aunt) as The Man/Peter/The Doctor, Naomi Sheldon (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Sex with a Stranger) as Sylvia and Al Weaver (Inadmissible Evidence, Coram Boy, Hamlet) as Oliver, The Pride follows Jamie Lloyd’s critically acclaimed The Hothouse, starring Simon Russell Beale and John Simm, and Macbeth with James McAvoy, all for the Jamie Lloyd Trafalgar Transformed Season.

Jamie Lloyd, Artistic Director of Trafalgar Transformed, said “I have always hoped to tour some work directly from our Trafalgar Transformed season. Given recent political and social issues, The Pride needs to be seen by a wider audience at this point in time. I am thrilled that we are taking the production outside London as a part of our drive to make our work more accessible.”

Alexi Kaye Campbell, writer said “After the successful run that The Pride has enjoyed in London, it means a lot to me personally that the play will now reach a wider audience beyond the capital. I am thrilled that more people around the UK will watch these actors' extraordinary performances in Jamie Lloyd's beautifully judged production”.
 
What is the point of this stupid, painful life if not to be honest? If not to stand up for what you are in the core of your being? Philip, Oliver and Sylvia exist in a complex love triangle, which spans over half a century, living and loving simultaneously in 1958 and the present against a background of changing attitudes towards homosexuality. Past and present worlds grind together and melt apart, yet the future and its promise of sexual liberation remains ever elusive, as societal repression gives way to self-deception.

The Pride is Alexi Kaye Campbell’s hilarious and heart-felt landmark play about courage, compassion and the fear of loneliness in life’s journey towards self-discovery.

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Published: 11-Feb-2014: (2238)