Now You Know Theatre Company Presents One for My Baby at the Lantern Theatre on the 30^th July before heading to Edinburgh for this year’s Fringe from the 10^th – 29^th August (excluding Sundays.)

One for My Baby is an exciting original play, backed by live jazz music, telling of the passionately wild marriage of Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner.

This play doesn’t show the glitz and glamour of the man, but portrays the sad and chaotic private life of fame and that behind those Ol’ Blue Eyes lived the real Sinatra. Written and directed by Anthony Orme and starring a cast comprising of Royal Central School of Speech and Drama students, One for My Baby promises to transport audiences back to the 1950s, telling the story of the deeply loving, but ultimately doomed partnership of two of the era’s biggest stars.

The audience meets Joe, the bartender immortalised in Sinatra’s hit One for My Baby, who lends an ear to Frank as he reminisces about his tumultuous relationship with Gardner. Told through his recollections of the past, the play explores the many and various ups and downs of their love affair, and questions whether anything worth having – be it youth, love, or fame – can last forever?

The action is undercut by live jazz music which plays from the ‘jukebox’ of the bar, which is made up of a group of actor-musicians. The characters of the story are brought to life when these actors step into the action of the play, and they provide the music which creates much of the play’s poignant and nostalgic atmosphere.

Coinciding with Sinatra’s centenary year, this piece of new writing aims to present a little explored period of the music legend’s life, and gives a stage to the woman who inspired and assisted his rise to fame. One for My Baby will be playing during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2015, at the Space on the Mile from 10^th – 29^th August (excluding Sundays, previews held on 7^th & 8^th August.)

Tickets for One for My Baby are priced at £10.50 with concessions available at £8.50 and are available to purchase from the Lantern Theatre Box office.