Sunderland Stages’ next performance will be Luke Wright’s What I Learned from Johnny Bevan, a one-man play about shattered friendships, class ceilings, the rise of New Labour and subsequent disillusionment, David Cameron and the abandonment of those left behind.
At university, Johnny Bevan saves Nick Burton, smashing his comfortable, middle class bubble, becoming his best friend and firing him up about politics, music and literature. Now it is twenty years later and a disillusioned Nick, a journalist, is led by an unexpected coincidence to seek out Johnny...
Described as “a brilliantly observed piece of writing, well-researched and with a sharp political edge” by BTG editor David Chadderton who reviewed it at the 2016 Edinburgh Book Festival, the production comes to Sunderland College’s Bede Campus theatre on 18 November at 7:30.
The aim of Sunderland Stages, now in its second season, is to “celebrate the very best of theatre, dance and spoken word performances and brings them to hidden, found and unexpected venues across Sunderland.”
Hear Luke Wright talk about this production in the BTG podcast.