NEWS: First cast announced for The Beast Of Blue Yonder at The Southwark Playhouse in April.

Tramp presents

THE BEAST OF BLUE YONDER

A new play by Philip Ridley

Directed by Wiebke Green

Venue:              Southwark Playhouse

Dates:              Thurs, 2^nd April to Sat, 9^th May 2020

(Not Sundays)

Time:               Mon to Sat – 7.30pm

(Tues & Sat Matinee 3.00pm - not 4^th & 7^th April)

Box office:        020 7407 0234

Online:             www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk

JADE EWEN (SUGARBABES AND ALADDIN WEST END), MIRREN MACK (SEX EDUCATION), RACHEL BRIGHT (EASTENDERS) AND UNIQUE SPENCER (TOP BOY) ARE AMONG THE FIRST CAST MEMBERS TO BE SIGNED FOR PHILIP RIDLEY’S NEW DARK COMEDY.

Tramp are proud to announce that Jade Ewen, Mirren Mack, Rachel Bright, and Unique Spencer will star in The Beast of Blue Yonder when it opens at Southwark Playhouse in April. Along with comedian and actor Steve Furst (Little Britain, Stephen Polliakoff's Summer of Rockets, Matilda West End), Charlie Quirke (Birds of a Feather), Lucy Gape (Hollyoaks, Hollyoaks Later), and Tyler Conti (Safe) they will form the backbone of a talented ensemble cast in Philip Ridley’s rip roaring dark comedy.

Jack Silver, Artistic Director of Tramp, said: "We're thrilled to have such an exciting ensemble cast on board for Philip Ridley's new comedy. It's a testament to Philip's incredible imagination that we've been able to get such incredible actors, and we can't wait for audiences to experience an unforgettable and entertaining night at the theatre."

The rest of the cast includes: Joseph Drake, Mike Evans, Nat Johnson, Joseph Potter, and Kyle Rowe.

This new black comedy is a dazzling, genre-mashing, singing & dancing, tour de force of storytelling, where film stars become addicted to strange potions, a town battles with a demonic child, and a burning cinema shines like a new sun. Three different stories from three different decades, but all hurtling towards the same thing. That thing that everyone fears the most...The Beast of Blue Yonder.

Tramp return to Southwark Playhouse after the success of their Offie-nominated production of Philip Ridley’s Angry and their smash hit immersive version of Confessional by Tennessee Williams.

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Philip Ridley’s previous plays include Angry, The Fastest Clock in the Universe, Radiant Vermin, The Pitchfork Disney, Tender Napalm, Dark Vanilla Jungle, and Mercury Fur, as well as the screenplay for the 1990 film The Krays. 

Praise for previous Philip Ridley plays:

“Delivers the goods with a punch in the gut and a burst vein in the head.” The Arts Desk (Angry)

“Ridley’s play is completely and dizzyingly of itself. The writing seethes and burns.…Seldom has sexual love been explored on stage with such ferocious honesty.” — The Guardian (Tender Napalm)

“Outstanding….Ridley at his imaginative best…his most moving and accessible adult play to date.” — What’s On Stage (Shivered)

“Thrilling…I left the theatre convinced that I’d seen a work of genius immaculately performed. Wonderful.” — Arts Desk (The Pitchfork Disney)

“Ridley pictures consumerism at its most insane and destructive. He’s on stingingly funny…fierce…

dazzling.” — The Evening Standard (Radiant Vermin)