This month sees the start of a UK tour for Stella Feehily's new play This May Hurt A Bit.
Out of Joint Artistic Director Max Stafford-Clark directs a cast led by Stephanie Cole playing Iris, a witty, feisty and independent elderly woman and unswerving champion of the NHS who finds herself unexpectedly in its care.
Cole's extensive credits include Pygmalion and Separate Tables at the Chichester Festival Theatre and Blithe Spirit and Noises Off in the West End, and for television Open All Hours, Coronation Street, Tenko and Waiting For God.
Also in the cast are brother and sister Jane and Tristram Wymark, both known for ITV's Midsomer Murders, Brian Protheroe whose credits include Long Days Journey Into Night at the Octagon Theatre Bolton, Frances Ashman and Natalie Klamar.
Max Stafford-Clark's own experience of having a stroke prompted his playwright wife Stella Feehily to research and write the play. Feehily's other plays include Duck, O Go My Man, Dreams Of Violence and Bang Bang Bang.
This May Hurt A Bit tours from March to May finishing at St James Theatre, London.
- Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds
- Octagon Theatre, Bolton
- Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
- Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham
- Oxford Playhouse
- Bristol Old Vic
- Liverpool Playhouse
- St James Theatre, London