The world première tour of A Day of Pleasure, a new play adapted by The Useful Donkey Theatre Company based on Isaac Bashevis Singer’s award-winning book, will debut at the Playhouse Studio. Performed by Everyman founding company member Stuart Richman it will run from Thursday 26th to Saturday 28th September.
“Only the dreamers, who dream while awake, call back the shadows of the past and braid from unspun threads, unspun nets.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer
The evening before he travels to Stockholm to collect the Nobel Prize for Literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer – a passionate, brilliant storyteller – recalls a fascinating childhood full of mystery, torment and adventure.
A Day of Pleasure is about more than a young boy growing up in a strange and exotic world; it is about growing up itself. Singer brings to life the vivid characters of pre-war Warsaw, his own character and the human conditions that affect us all.
The one-man play will be performed by Stuart Richman who was part of the Everyman Finale in July 2011 and also performed in the Everyman Unbound season in 2010. His other theatre credits The Caretaker, Tartuffe, Uncle Vanya, Hedda Gabler and Murder in the Cathedral (Liverpool Everyman), The Duchess of Malfi and Wild Oats (National Theatre and Tour), Edward II (Royal Exchange Manchester) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Balcony, Everyman In His Humour and Country Dancing (RSC).
Mr. Richman said, “I’ve conjured up a persona of Isaac Bashevis Singer telling the stories so that it is not simply me telling the stories, it’s me as Bashevis Singer telling these vital elements of his life while preparing to go and receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.”
A Day of Pleasure is the first show of an exciting season in The Studio, which includes Scrappers in November, the debut play by Everyman Playhouse Young Writers graduate Daniel Matthew. The Studio has quickly become as an exciting hotbed for new work since it reopened in 2011, with past successes including Frank McGuinness’s The Match Box and Joe Ward Munrow’s Held.
Tickets for A Day Of Pleasure are available from the Liverpool Playhouse Theatre Box office on Williamson Square, by telephone on 0151 709 4776 or online at www.everymanplayhouse.com. Tickets are priced at £10 and £12. There is a matinee performance on Saturday 28th September at 2.30pm.
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