Originally produced by Newcastle’s acclaimed Live Theatre, and following sell-out seasons at the National Theatre, on Broadway and in the West End, Bill Kenwright presents the award winning play The Pitmen Painters, as it announces a new national tour beginning next month. The Pitmen Painters is written by Lee Hall who is well known for creating the worldwide sensation Billy Elliot.
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In 1934, a group of Ashington miners hired a professor to teach an art appreciation evening class. Rapidly abandoning theory in favour of practice, the pitmen began to paint. Within a few years the most avant-garde artists became their friends and their work was acquired by prestigious collections; but every day they worked, as before, down the mine. Examining the lives of a group of ordinary men who do extraordinary things, The Pitmen Painters is a humorous, deeply moving and timely look at art, class and politics.
Lee Hall wrote the screenplay for Billy Elliot and adapted it for the West End in 2005, winning an Olivier Award for Best New Musical. Billy Elliot opened on Broadway in November 2008. His plays also include Spoonface Steinberg (Ambassadors), Cooking with Elvis (Live Theatre, Assembly Rooms and West End), and an adaptation of Herman Heijerman’s The Good Hope for the NT.
Joe Caffrey will star as ‘Harry Wilson’, Philip Correia as ‘Oliver Kilbourn’, Suzy Cooper as ‘Helen Sutherland’, Catherine Dryden as ‘Susan Parks’, Louis Hilyer as ‘Robert Lyon’, Riley Jones as ‘Ben Nicholson / Young Lad’, Nicholas Lumley as ‘George Brown’, and Donald McBride as ‘Jimmy Floyd’.
Tour Dates
Wednesday 13 – Saturday 16 March
Theatre Royal, Windsor
Website: www.theatreroyalwindsor.co.uk
Monday 18 – Saturday 23 March
Clwyd Theatre, Mold
Clwyd Theatre, Mold
Website: http://www.malvern-theatres.co.uk/
Tuesday 2 – Saturday 6 April
Palace Theatre, Southend
Palace Theatre, Southend
Website: https://southendtheatres.org.uk
Tuesday 9 – Saturday 13 April
Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield
Tuesday 9 – Saturday 13 April
Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield
Website: http://www.pomegranatetheatre.co.uk
Monday 15 – Saturday 20 April
Alhambra, Bradford Website: http://www.bradford-theatres.co.uk/
Monday 22 – Saturday 27 April
Cambridge Arts Theatre Website: www.cambridgeartstheatre.com
Monday 29 April – Saturday 4 May
Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne
Monday 15 – Saturday 20 April
Alhambra, Bradford Website: http://www.bradford-theatres.co.uk/
Monday 22 – Saturday 27 April
Cambridge Arts Theatre Website: www.cambridgeartstheatre.com
Monday 29 April – Saturday 4 May
Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne
Website: http://www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk/
Tuesday 7 – Saturday 11 May
Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford
Tuesday 7 – Saturday 11 May
Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford
Website: http://www.edtheatres.com/kings
Monday 20 – Saturday 25 May
Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury
Grand Theatre, Swansea
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