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My Name Is Sue's Dafydd James
My Name Is Sue's Dafydd James

My Name Is Sue at QUN, then Tour

Date: 19 May 2010

Following success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2009, My Name Is Sue arrives in Manchester as part of Queer Up North later this month. The production stars Dafydd James as a middle-aged woman called Sue, who sips pop, pops pills and sings songs of her life on a variety of topics: the buses in Cardiff, the apocalypse, a finishing school she once attended, scenes from Hades, and what she had for lunch. Accompanied by The Three Sues on violin, cello and drums, she combines virtuoso piano playing with a soaring falsetto and the occasional Radiohead cover.
 
In this genre-busting and blindingly original collaboration between award-winning theatre-makers Dafydd James and Ben Lewis, Sue invites you to take a peek beneath the drab cardigan of the person you’d probably rather not become.

Lewis is co-artistic director of Inspector Sands, whose shows Hysteria and That’s All There Is have won a host of awards including a Total Theatre Award, Argus Angel Award and the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Award.  Dafydd James is a Cameron Mackintosh award-winning composer. Past scores include Under Milk Wood (Northampton Royal); Geek Tragedy (Wales Millennium Centre); Woof Woof Kerching! (BAC, London); Apocalypse Wow (The Venue, London) and Pinocchio (Northampton Royal).

My Name Is Sue is at Queer Up North on Sat, 29th May, and then tours the UK, including London, Bristol and Oxford. Check out the clip here.
 

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Queer Up North turns 18 with Justin Bond and Taylor Mac - 31st Mar 2010 News


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