Ayub Khan Din’s critically-acclaimed play East is East is to tour to the Opera House, Manchester, in January 2015 following its run in the West End.
It stars the stage and screen star Jane Horrocks (Young Vic’s Annie Get Your Gun, Sunshine on Leith, The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice, Absolutely Fabulous) as Ella and the playwright himself as her husband George.
Ayub Khan Din said, “It’s great that we are touring East is East—I believe it's really important that London shows can be seen all over the country.
"I'm particularly proud to be playing the Opera House in Manchester, a theatre I used to pass every day on the bus on my way to a job I hated, little thinking that one day my own play would be gracing its stage!”
East is East follows the success of the limited season tour of The Pride earlier this year, the third production in the Jamie Lloyd for Trafalgar Transformed Season One, which played in Brighton, Manchester and Richmond.