Brits Off-Broadway 2008 at 59e59 Theatres

59e59 Theatres announce the 2008 lineup for their 5th annual festival Brits off-Broadway. This year the festival features three of Scotland's top playwrights, acclaimed stage and film actor Ewen Bremner and Brits Off Broadway's first ever musical!

The Brits Off-Broadway 2008 presents:

• Yellow Moon: The Ballad of Leila and Lee
  Genre: Drama
  Playwright: David Greig
  Director: Guy Hollands Producers: TAG Citizens Theatre
  Synopsis: A modern Bonnie and Clyde tale of two teenagers on the run in the Highlands of Scotland. Silent Leila is an introverted girl who has a passion for celebrity magazines. Stag Lee Macalinden is the deadest of dead end kids in a dead end town. They never meant to get mixed up in murder...
  Dates: 23 Apr - 18 May
  
  
• The Unconquered
  Genre: Drama
  Playwright: Torben Betts
  Director: Muriel Romanes
  Producers: Stellar Quines Theatre Company
  Synopsis: About a fiercely intelligent young girl and her relentless refusal of the establishment. When a people's revolution breaks out and a mercenary soldier intrudes the family home, the conflict between the regime and the unconquered girl is revealed.
  Dates: 1 - 18 May
  
  
• Damascus
  Genre: Comedy
  Playwright: David Greig
  Director: Philip Howard
  Producers: 59E59 Theaters
  Cast: Ewen Bremner, Nathalie Armin, Alex Elliott, Dolya Gavanski and Khalid Laith.
  Synopsis: An English language textbook salesman on assignment to the oldest continuously inhabited city on earth.
  Dates: 8 May - 1 Jun
  
  
• Artefacts
  Genre: Drama
  Playwright: Mike Bartlett
  Director: James Grieve
  Producers: nabokov and the Bush Theatre
  Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Kelly is having a normal Saturday when her unknown father, who is Iraqi, turns up out of the blue. He's smuggled a priceless antique from the Baghdad Museum and wants Kelly to look after it. He's got a plane to catch, but Kelly threatens to smash it unless he stays and gets to know her.
  Dates: 21 May - 8 Jun
  
  
• Blink
  Genre: Drama
  Playwright: Ian Rowlands
  Director: Steve Fisher
  Producers: F.A.B. Theatre
  Synopsis: Set in Wales, UK, the initial inspiration for the play was the events surrounding the Clywch enquiry - a report into the systematic abuse of children at a Welsh language school. The play is an examination of the close-knit lives and lies of a small south Wales community, whose secrets start with the rudey club and end with '12 words that ruined a life.'
  Dates: 21 May - 8 Jun
  
  
  
• The Hired Man
  Genre: Musical
  Composer & Lyricist: Howard Goodall
  Book: Melvyn Bragg
  Director: Daniel Buckroyd
  Producers: New Perspectives Theatre Company
  Synopsis: Set in rural Cumbria in the early part of the twentieth century, The musical tells the story of a young married couple and their struggle to carve a living from the land, just as the rhythms of English country life are being interrupted by the gathering storm of war in Europe.
  Dates: 5 - 29 Jun
  
  
• Vincent River
  Genre: Drama
  Playwright: Philip Ridley
  Director: Steve Marmion
  Producers: Old Vic Productions
  Cast: Deborah Findlay and Mark Field
  Synopsis: About a woman visited by a teenager who has some connection with the death of her son.
  Dates: 10 - 29 Jun
  
  
• Some Kind of Bliss
  Genre: Comedy
  Playwright: Samuel Adamson
  Director: Toby Frow
  Producers: Trafalgar Studios
  Cast: Lucy Briers
  Synopsis: Rachel, a small-time hack and seeker of minor adventure, sets off down the Thames Path to Greenwich to interview British pop legend Lulu for her tabloid's glossy supplement. But between London Bridge and Lulu's mirrored hallway lies a series of unpredicted and comic events. A play about how a walk on an everyday Wednesday can become an odyssey that turns your life upside down.
  Dates: 10 - 29 Jun