The multi award-winning The Pride will be playing Manchester Opera House next week as part of a three-week tour.
The play, which ran at London’s Trafalgar Studios last year, is directed by Jamie Lloyd (Donmar's Passion, Old Vic's The Duchess of Malfi, National Theatre's She Stoops to Conquer).
Starring Harry Hadden-Paton (Posh, She Stoops to Conquer, Flare Path) as Philip, Mathew Horne (Gavin and Stacey, Bad Education, Charley's Aunt) as The Man / Peter / The Doctor, Naomi Sheldon (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Sex with a Stranger) as Sylvia and Al Weaver (Inadmissible Evidence, Coram Boy, Hamlet) as Oliver, The Pride follows Lloyd’s critically acclaimed The Hothouse, starring Simon Russell Beale and John Simm, and Macbeth with James McAvoy, all for the Trafalgar Transformed Season.
Alexi Kaye Campbell, writer said: “After the successful run that The Pride has enjoyed in London, it means a lot to me personally that the play will now reach a wider audience beyond the capital.”
Philip, Oliver and Sylvia exist in a complex love triangle, which spans half a century, living and loving simultaneously in 1958 and the present against a background of changing attitudes towards homosexuality.