JIM Cartwright's new play, Stand Up Stand Up, visits the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, from May 18 to 20 as part of a UK tour.
Cartwight, the Olivier Award-winning Lancastrian playwright, is best known for the tragi-comedy The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice. Turned by York writer-director Mark Hearld into Little Voice, a 1998 film set in Scarborough, it is to be revived by SJT artistic director Paul Robinson as the opening production of the summer season in rep from June 15 to August 19.
Andrew Westfield in rehearsal for Jim Cartwright's Stand Up Stand Up
Produced by the Jim Cartwright Company and Wakefield Theatre Royal, and directed by Cartwright, Stand Up Stand Up is a darkly comic story of a struggling comedian who forms an unlikely friendship with a tough bailiff as they strive to help each other achieve their dreams.
Chris Hannon will play down-on-his-luck comic Colin after starring in John Godber’s Bouncers, CBeebies’ Topsy & Tim and the Wakefield theatre's pantomime for the past seven years as the dame. Stage and screen actor Andrew Westfield will be burly bailiff Biff, who wants to overcome his natural lack of charm to become a funnyman himself.
The tour is the first co-production in a new partnership between Cartwright and Wakefield Theatre Royal. Tickets for the 7pm Thursday show, 7.30pm Friday show and 2.30pm and 7.30pm Saturday performances are on sale at sjt.uk.com or on 01723 370541.
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