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Over the past ten years of Brits Off Broadway we have endeavored to maintain a level of excellence in the productions, so that they can truly claim to represent the very best of British theatre. Sometimes the plays and their authors are known; most of them are not – we always try to bring you new writers, actors and directors, some of whom will become stars in their own fields. Director John Tiffany (Black Watch, Once, Glass Menagerie) and choreographer and movement director Steven Hoggett (Black Watch, American Idiot, Once) both had their first New York outings in Brits Off Broadway 2004!

And of course Sir Alan Ayckbourn, already a star in the writing firmament, made his New York directing debut at 59E59 with Private Fears in Public Places and has returned four times since. (We hope to lure him back again in 2016!). Last year’s Brits Off Broadway production of Alan Ayckbourn’s Arrivals and Departures made both TIME Magazine’s Top Ten of 2014 and Ben Brantley’s list of the Best of 2014 in The New York Times.

How will this year’s smaller but distinguished British army fare in the best of 2015? As long as they feature high on your personal lists we will be very happy!

And where better to place your bets than on two veritable giants of the British stage — Simon Callow and Edward Petherbridge?

Simon was the original Mozart in Amadeus at London’s National Theatre in 1979, but became known worldwide through Four Weddings and A Funeral. His extensive theatre and movie credits you will find in your E:Bill when you come to see him blossom as Pauline in Tuesdays at Tesco’s!

Twice Tony-nominated Edward (in 1982 for The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby and in 1985 for Strange Interlude) joins Told by an Idiot’s Paul Hunter in My Perfect Mind, one of the most extraordinary evenings you will have the pleasure of enjoying this year — that is if, like Edward, you view comedy as a serious business — and prefer it tinged with a little Shakespeare, well done!

Ten other outstanding performances, already acclaimed in the UK, await you in four wildly contrasting productions.

This Brits Off Broadway may just have the most pleasing variety of plays we have ever presented.

From Dundee and Scotland’s Outer Hebrides (In My Father’s Words) and the Highland capital city of Inverness (The Tailor of Inverness) to Bolton in Lancashire (One Hand Clapping) and the Ovalhouse in London (Cuddles) intriguing, fascinating tales await you!

I look forward to hearing what you think of it all in the E:Bar afterwards — with the casts!

Happy Brits!

Peter Tear Executive Producer

Photo by Laurence Winram

DOGSTAR THEATRE COMPANY presents

BY MATTHEW ZAJAC DIRECTED BY BEN HARRISON WITH MATTHEW ZAJAC AND AIDAN O’ROURKE “I come from the Soviets and the Nazis.

Now I am here. I am from here. I speak the language of here.”

Matthew Zajac’s internationally acclaimed, multi-award winning play is the story of a son’s search for his father, of 20th-Century Europe, and how a boy who grew up on a farm in Galicia (formerly located in Eastern Poland, now Western Ukraine) fled the Nazis and came to be a tailor in northern Scotland.

A story of deception, identity and survival, The Tailor of Inverness won a coveted Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and has toured internationally with great success, moving thousands across the world.

Originally seen at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2008, we are delighted to finally be able to introduce The Tailor of Inverness to New York.

“Beautifully performed, and directed — this is a deeply affecting piece of personal theatre that I heartily recommend.”

London Evening Standard

“Theatre at its best — achieves more power, humour and inventiveness in its 75 minutes than most full-length plays manage in three hours.

Zajac’s performance is phenomenal.

This should not be missed.”

OnStageScotland.co.uk

“Matthew Zajac’s moving performance is a triumph of evocative staging and storytelling.”

THEATER C TUE, WED & THU 7:30 FRI 8:30 SAT 2:30 & 8:30 SUN 3:30 TICKETS $25 (MEMBERS $17.50)

The Times, London The Sunday Herald, Scotland Financial Times, London The Herald, Scotland The Scotsman Edinburgh Evening News

The Observer, London

“Don’t miss it. It’s the most satisfying seventy five minutes that I’ve spent in the theatre in a long time.”

Radio Adelaide Arts Breakfast

EdinburghGuide.com

Photo by Emma Phillipson

HOUSE OF ORPHANS presents

BY ANTHONY BURGESS ADAPTED AND DIRECTED BY LUCIA COX WITH EVE BURLEY, OLIVER DEVOTI AND ADAM UREY Anthony Burgess, famously known as the author of A Clockwork Orange, was born in Lancashire, home to the Bolton Octagon Theatre, where this production was originally presented last year.

Adapted from Burgess’s 1961 novel of the same name, One Hand Clapping is the darkly comic story of Howard and Janet Shirley. They live a humdrum life in a Northern English town but Howard has a talent – a photographic memory, which he uses to win a TV quiz show.

With his winnings, he and Janet travel the world, seeing everything they can. But, upon their return, a disillusioned Howard makes a sinister proposition to Janet.

”Daringly surreal and innovatively executed!”

What's On Stage, London

”Sharp and mordantly funny. Do go!”

Manchester Confidential

”Lucia Cox’s adaptation effectively brings a lesser-known Anthony Burgess novel to stage, and provides an entertaining evening.”

The Public Reviews, London

“One Hand Clapping is charming, ambitious, comic and absurd” Alistair Michael, Northern Soul

THEATER C TUE, WED & THU 7:30 FRI 8:30 SAT 2:30 & 8:30 SUN 3:30 & 7:30 TICKETS $25 (MEMBERS $17.50)

Photos by William Burdett-Coutts

RICHARD DARBOURNE LTD. in association with ASSEMBLY AND RIVERSIDE STUDIOS presents

BY EMMANUEL DARLEY DIRECTED BY SIMON STOKES ADAPTED AND TRANSLATED BY MATTHEW HURT AND SARAH VERMANDE

WITH CONOR MITCHELL Every Tuesday, Pauline visits her elderly father to do household chores and take him to the grocery store.

But it’s not just fruit and vegetables she searches for walking down the aisles. It’s the lost love of her father; a father who cannot forget who Pauline once was –his son Paul.

Desperate to connect with her father, Pauline is met only with gruff disrespect, stares, and embarrassment. Tuesdays At Tesco’s is an intense, thought-provoking journey, exploring perceptions of identity and the lines we dare to cross.

A moving and uplifting story of love and death, starring Simon Callow C.B.E., one of Britain’s greatest actors, known for Amadeus, A Room with a View, Four Weddings and a Funeral and Shakespeare in Love, goes out on a limb and brings vividly to life the wondrous character that is Pauline, whose love and duty to her father transcend everything, allowing her to survive the embarrassment she has to endure every Tuesday at Tesco’s supermarket.

Originally seen at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2011, where Pauline packed the cavernous Assembly Hall on the Mound, Simon Callow brings his greatest creation to the intimate confines of Theater A! "A profoundly moving performance that pierces the heart" Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman

"A performance that combines serious quantities of commitment and courage.”

The Telegraph, London

"A brave and challenging piece both gripping and poignant" Edinburgh Spotlight

THEATER A TUE, WED & THU 7 FRI 8 SAT 2 & 8 SUN 3 & 7 No performance SUN 5/17 AT 7

TICKETS $70 (MEMBERS $49) "The best performance I have seen this year... groundbreaking."

Broadway Baby

"A tour de force!"

What'sOnStage

"A wistful exploration of acceptance and identity" London Evening Standard

Photo by Alex Beckett

ARCH 468 and OVALHOUSE present

BY JOSEPH WILDE DIRECTED BY REBECCA ATKINSON-LORD WITH CARLA LANGLEY AND RENDAH HEYWOOD Imagine a world without sunlight. A world where Harry Potter, Bilbo Baggins and the cast of Dante’s Inferno are real; where princes with adjectives instead of names seduce beautiful princesses against the odds. A world crammed full of storybook characters but with just one living, breathing human being to cuddle. Welcome to Eve’s world.

Eve is a 13-year-old vampire. She has never left her room and everything she knows about the world comes from her sister Tabby and her storybook characters. Eve does everything a good little vampire girl should, including drinking her (human) sister’s blood. But one day, Tabby tires of opening her veins and, in a breath, Eve's whole world changes.

Cuddles is the stunning debut play from 2012 Capital Theatre Festival Award-winning young playwright Joseph Wilde.

Famous since the 1960s as a pioneer of the innovative fringe (Ovalhouse’s first production was Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey), Ovalhouse has supported emerging gay, lesbian, and women’s theatre as well as new black and Asian playwrighting. Now, under the artistic directorship of Rebecca Atkinson-Lord, we are delighted that Ovalhouse is making its New York debut in Brits Off Broadway!

"A smart and gruesome gothic tale!"

Time Out London

"The finale sends you out into the dark with a shiver."

The Guardian, London

"Funny, touching and incredibly intense, this is new writing at its best."

Everything Theater

THEATER C TUE, WED & THU 7:30 FRI 8:30 SAT 2:30 & 8:30 SUN 3:30 & 7:30 No performance SUN 6/28 AT 7:30

TICKETS $25 (MEMBERS $17.50)

Photos by Viktoria Begg

DUNDEE REP ENSEMBLE presents

BY JUSTIN YOUNG DIRECTED BY PHILIP HOWARD SCOTTISH GAELIC BY IAIN FINLAY MACLEOD

WITH ANGUS PETER CAMPBELL, GARRY COLLINS AND MUIREANN KELLY In an old wooden house by the shore of Lake Ontario in Canada, Louis battles with his elderly father, Don, whose decline into dementia is gradually robbing him of the ability to speak.

Into their lives comes Flora, the caregiver that Louis employs to look after Don. Flora, who is of Scottish heritage, understands the ‘nonsense’ that Don speaks is fragmented Gaelic, opening up an ocean of revelations and buried family history spanning the Atlantic. In My Father’s Words is a beautiful play about identity, language, and the utter indivisibility between the two.

Originally presented as a cultural highlight of the wildly successful 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, this production, supported by Creative Scotland and the Scottish government, was presented at Glasgow’s Tron Theatre and in Dundee; directed

by Dundee Rep’s Artistic Director, Philip Howard.

It then toured Scotland, ending its journey in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis before following the same journey as the play itself across the Atlantic.

See one of the most beautifully written plays of recent years.

THEATER B TUE, WED & THU 7:15 FRI 8:15 SAT 2:15 & 8:15 SUN 3:15 TICKETS $35 (MEMBERS $24.50)

“Philip Howard’s strongly acted production bridges “Both intimate and epic the gulf between the domestic and the mythological” in its reach for roots and reconciliation“ The Guardian, London The Herald, Scotland

“A clever, engrossing, and affecting exploration of memory, language and identity“ The Sunday Herald, Scotland

“Rich and thoughtful... powerful and fascinating“ The Scotsman, Edinburgh

Photo by Manuel Harlan

TOLD BY AN IDIOT, YOUNG VIC, and THEATRE ROYAL PLYMOUTH present

WRITTEN BY KATHRYN HUNTER, PAUL HUNTER AND EDWARD PETHERBRIDGE DIRECTED BY KATHRYN HUNTER WITH PAUL HUNTER AND EDWARD PETHERBRIDGE Acclaimed classical actor Edward Petherbridge was cast as King Lear. On the second day of rehearsals he suffered a stroke that left him barely able to move. As he struggled to recover, Edward made a discovery – the entire role of Lear still existed word for word in his mind!

From being on the brink of playing one of Shakespeare’s most revered roles, to lying in a hospital bed surrounded by doctors, Edward never imagined what tragedies and comedies lay in store for him. My Perfect Mind celebrates the resilience of the human spirit through the prism of Shakespeare’s great tragedy.

However, it’s anything but a tragedy.

Originally presented by Told by an Idiot, the Theatre Royal, Plymouth and London’s Young Vic, My Perfect Mind has captivated audiences all over the U.K. and Europe. Featuring Edward Petherbridge, the original Guildenstern in Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Nobbs in the R.S.C.’s Nicholas Nickleby on Broadway, this remarkably funny, touching, and truly inspiring production celebrates 22-years of Told by an Idiot.

“Very funny!

A show of constant invention and delight.”

The Telegraph, London

"An exquisite piece of tomfoolery."

Supported by

THEATER A TUE, WED & THU 7 FRI 8 SAT 2 & 8 SUN 3 Additional performance SUN 6/21 AT 7

TICKETS $70 (MEMBERS $49)

“A gently hilarious, intermittently (and understatedly) haunting double-act piece.”

The Independent, London

The Guardian, London

“There’s nothing quite like it!

Wild and funny with a serious core.”

The Times, London

“A company with a gift for inventive physicality” Time Out London, Critics’ Choice

“My Perfect Mind is a show unlike any other.”

The Telegraph, London

“The result is a sweet, deliberately scattershot theatrical vaudeville.”

The New York Times

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