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Dateline: 6th August, 2009
Riverside Celebrates Gill On 7th September Peter Gill OBE, Founder Director of Riverside Studios, celebrates his 70th birthday: from 22nd September to 11th October the venue will present the first UK revival of his Olivier nominated play, The York Realist, the first Peter Gill script to be performed at Riverside Studios since 1980. A key figure in British theatre for over fifty years, Peter Gill founded Riverside Studios, and the Royal National Theatre Studio. The York Realist premiered in 2001 at The Lowry, produced by English Touring Theatre. It went on to be performed at Bristol Old Vic, the Royal Court and transferred to the Strand Theatre. It was nominated for Best New Play at the Olivier Awards and Evening Standard Theatre Awards and won the Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play. In August 2009 he is directing the world premiere of his new play Another Door Closed at the Theatre Royal, Bath. The production is by Good Night Out Presents which was formed in August 2008. After a residency at The White Bear Theatre, they now manage The Cock Tavern Theatre, Kilburn. Set on the brink of major social change in the early 1960's, The York Realist is the love story of two young men from diverse backgrounds, who are being pulled apart by cultural barriers and family allegiances. After meeting at rehearsals for a local staging of the York Mystery Plays, middle-class theatre director John asks Yorkshire farm labourer George to return with him to London. George is faced with an agonising decision that highlights the depth of family roots and furthermore questions the ownership of Art in an England fractured by class. There will be two post-show talks during the run: on Wednesday 30th September with Peter Gill and director Adam Spreadbury-Maher and Friday 2nd October with Michael Billington and Josie Rourke who will discuss Class and Theatre.
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