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Patrick Marber's The Red Lion transfers to Trafalgar Studios this November

The transfer follows a sell-out run at Live Theatre in Newcastle

Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff

| London |

3 July 2017

Stephen Tompkinson, John Bowl and Dean Bone star in Patrick Marber's The Red Lion
Stephen Tompkinson, John Bowl and Dean Bone star in Patrick Marber's The Red Lion

The Red Lion will transfer to Trafalgar Studios from Wednesday 1 November to 2 December 2017 after a sell-out run at Live Theatre in Newcastle.

The show is about different generations of football fans and director Max Roberts’ version is set in the dressing room of a semi-professional football club in the North East.

Stephen Tompkinson, John Bowler and Dean Bone will reprise their roles for the transfer.

Roberts said: "Whilst the play is inherently accessible, full of salty dialogue and laugh out loud set pieces its lyrical qualities to my mind seem to be enhanced by the north-east vernacular brought vividly to life by Stephen Tompkinson, John Bowler and Dean Bone who also compellingly represent the characters emotional complexity."

Patrick Marber said: "To an extent the play is dramatising something about England; that there is one strain of thought which is about community, tolerance and belonging, and there is another which represents a whole counter trajectory about what England could or should be; that England is a business."

The Red Lion is at Trafalgar Studios from Wednesday 1 November to 2 December 2017.

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