Theatre News

Beautiful Burnout revived for UK tour

Beautiful
Burnout
, the award-winning show by Frantic Assembly and the
National Theatre of Scotland, will be revived this autumn.

The show, which received a
Fringe First and universal critical acclaim when it premiered at the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2010, will open at the Theatre Royal,
Plymouth on 3 October before touring to Warwick,
London, Cardiff, Dundee, Leeds, Newcastle, Southampton and Hull. The final
performance of the tour will be at Hull Truck Theatre on 1 December.

This
is the first UK revival of Bryony Lavery‘s boxing drama, which
features the music of Underworld. The show toured the UK after its
Edinburgh run in 2010 and has since played in America, Australia and
New Zealand.

The
revival is one of a trio of collaborations taking place between
Frantic Assembly and three of the UK’s national theatres this year. Little
Dogs
, a co-production with National Theatre Wales opened
this week in Swansea, while The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
, on
which Frantic artistic directors Scott
Graham
and Steven Hoggett are movement directors, opens in July. The
pair are also represented in the Cultural Olympiad, having
choreographed the Damon Albarn opera Dr Dee, which
will play at the ENO as part of the London 2012 Festival in June following its launch at the Manchester International Festival in the summer of 2011.

Along
with news of the revival of Beautiful Burnout,
Frantic announced that Ignition, the company’s training project for
young men, has received funding of almost £90,000 from the Esmée
Fairbairn Foundation. The
company will deliver free taster sessions and workshop auditions
across the UK in September and October for young men aged 16-20.
Those selected will take part in an accredited five-day residency in
London which will culminate in a public performance. Over
400 young men have taken part in Ignition activities since its launch
in 2008, with 70 being selected to take part in the intensive
productions.