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Dateline: 18th May, 2010

Come To Where I'm From

Paines Plough directors James Grieve and George Perrin have announced a new initiative which sees new plays in thirteen theatres this summer. 58 playwrights from across the UK return to their home towns to write plays about the places that shaped them.

Starting from tomorrow, the dates, playwrights and venues are:

19/05 Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse - Everyword Festival
Helen Blakeman, Lizzie Nunnery, Keith Saha, Michael Wynne

26/05 Sheffield Crucible Theatre - Forge Festival
Leo Butler, Matt Hartley, Tom Hill, Emteaz Hussein, Richard Cameron

28/05 New Wolsey, Ipswich - Pulse Festival
Molly Davies, Joel Horwood, Ian McHugh, Niki Werenowska

19/06 Live Theatre, Newcastle
Alison Carr, Michael Chaplin, Dick Curran, Tracey Whitwell

21/06 Birmingham Repertory Theatre
Alia Bano, David Watson, David Edgar, Cheryl Payne

25/06 Ransom Productions at the Island Arts Centre, Belfast
Richard Dormer, Stacey Gregg, David Ireland, Rosemary Jenkinson, Martin Lynch

01/07 Sherman Theatre, Cardiff
Matthew Bulgo, Samantha Burns, Alan Harris, Bethan Marlow, Tim Price

09/07 Watford Palace
Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, Guy Jones, Glyn Maxwell, Adam Taylor

10/07 Bristol Old Vic
Tim Atack, Natalie McGrath, Adam Peck, Tom Wainwright

14/07 Belgrade Coventry
Vanessa Oakes, Chris O'Connell, Alan Pollock

22/07 Nottingham Playhouse
Leah Chillery, James Graham, Laura Lomas, Beth Steel, Mufaro Makubika

24/07 Oxford Playhouse
Mike Bartlett, Alice Birch, Catriona Kerridge, Duncan Macmillan, Penelope Skinner

03/11 Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Lucinda Cardey, Phil Davies, Sarah McDonald Hughes, Rory Mullarkey, Chris Thorpe, Joy Wilkinson

In addition the company will present new plays by some of the UK's leading writers - April De Angelis, David Harrower, Marie Jones, Linda McLean and Gary Owen - on tour in England, Scotland and Ireland, with a pie and a pint thrown in as the Paines Plough partner with the Glasgow's A Play, A Pie and A Pint. These can be seen at:

30/08-02/10 Oran Mor, Glasgow
13/09-16/10 Live Theatre, Newcastle
20/09-23/10 The Traverse, Edinburgh
27/09-30/10 The Belgrade, Coventry
04/10-06/11 Bewley's Cafe Theatre, Dublin

Paines Plough will also be presenting the World Premiere of a new play by Olivier Award winner Mike Bartlett with The Drum Theatre, Plymouth in October.

Before then you can see our collaboration with Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse on Laurence Wilson's uproarious state of the nation comedy Tiny Volcanoes, which opens at The Latitude Festival before touring.

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