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After Party at The Belgrade

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The cast of After Party.
The cast of After Party.

After Party by Morna Young at The Belgrade Theatre from 9 – 12 September. Directed by Katie Posner.

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The Traverse Theatre, Paines Plough and the Belgrade Theatre have announced the full cast and creative team for After Party, a bold new play by award-winning Scottish playwright Morna Young (Lost At Sea, Never Land). 

 

Directed by Paines Plough’s Joint Artistic Director Katie Posner, the cast includes Alison Peebles, Hilary Maclean, Gilly Gilchrist, Liz Kettle, Rachel Dick, Angus Yellowlees, Ruby Glyne, Benny Young and Maryam Hamidi. 

 

The set and costume designer is Richard Kent, Lighting Designer is Rory Beaton, Sound designer and composer is Oguz Kaplangi, the Movement Director is Jack Webb, Dramaturgy is Philip Howard and Casting is by Jacob Sparrow. 

Matriarch Vivienne Blackwood has always lived life on her own terms; much to the frustration of her fractured family.

 

Summoned for her 80th birthday party, they arrive expecting the usual family shenanigans.

What they’re not expecting, however, is Viv’s announcement that tonight is much more than a birthday party – it’s the celebration of a lifetime.

Because tomorrow, Viv will die… and she wants her whole family at her side.

 

With biting wit and unexpected tenderness, After Party is a bold, life-affirming story about a life-ending decision.

 

Katie Posner, director of After Party and Joint Artistic Director of Paines Plough said: “We are so thrilled to have brought together such a phenomenal Scottish cast and creative team for After Party. Morna’s play is bold, funny and full of heart, and it’s a joy to be bringing it to the stage with such a talented team of actors and so many brilliant collaborators.

 

This feels like a really special moment for us in teaming up once again with our friends at the Traverse Theatre and Belgrade Theatre to make a show on such an exciting scale, while staying true to the intimate, human storytelling we love.”

 

Idea conceived by Alex Fthenakis and Morna Young.  

Presented by Traverse Theatre, in co-production with Paines Plough and the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry.

 

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