Award winning play Spine comes to Plymouth

Soho Theatre and Francesca Moody are delighted to announce the UK tour of Spine, Clara Brennan’s hilarious and heartbreaking, multiple award-winning play.

Taking in an initial 13 theatres around the UK, the tour showcases Soho Theatre’s commitment to touring and sharing the best work with the widest possible audience around the UK and beyond. Spine’s UK tour begins at the The Drum in Plymouth on the 14th September and concludes on the 19th November at the Wales Millenium Centre, with tickets available from www.sohotheatre.com.

Spine charts the explosive friendship between a ferocious wise-cracking teenager Amy and a mischievous activist pensioner. Glenda is hell-bent on leaving a political legacy for her community and saving Amy because ‘there’s nothing more terrifying than a teenager with something to say’. In an era of political disillusionment and generational divides, has politics forgotten the people it represents? And, what price do we put on knowledge? Amy is about to find out.

The production has scooped a string of awards and plethora of critical acclaim since debuting at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2014, including a Fringe First Award, The Stage Award for Acting Excellence and a Herald Angel Award. The tour furthers the growing presence of the Soho Theatre as London’s most vibrant venue for new theatre, comedy and cabaret, now developing and touring work across the UK and beyond.

Rosie Wyatt is an award-winning actor who has previously performed in the National Theatre’s One Man Two Guvnors and Soho Theatre’s Blink. She has since scooped numerous accolades for her portrayal of Amy in Spine. Playwright Clara Brennan has established herself as one of the most exciting new voices in theatre. Clara was Soho Theatre’s Channel 4 Playwright in residence in 2014 and was shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award for her play The Vendor in 2013.

Spine is co-produced by Francesca Moody, who previously co-produced Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s acclaimed play Fleabag with Soho Theatre which went on to be adapted by BBC Three.