THE LAST SHIP TO MAKE UK NEWCASTLE
Jimmy Nail to star in Sting’s debut musical
The Last Ship
Monday 12th March – Saturday
7th April 2018
Opens 12 March 2018 at Northern Stage, ahead of UK Ireland
The Last Ship – the acclaimed musical by the internationally
renowned musician Sting – is to premiere in the UK Newcastle 12 March 2018 .
The production, which will star
Jimmy Nail, has a TONY-nominated original score and lyrics composed by Sting.
It will play a 4-week season in Newcastle
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| Sting - Photo: Mark Savage |
The production, which was
initially inspired by Sting's 1991 album The Soul Cages and his own childhood
experiences, tells the story of a community amid the demise of the shipbuilding
industry in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, with the closure of the town's shipyard.
When Gideon Fletcher returns
home after seventeen years at sea, tensions between past and future flare in
both his family and his town. The local shipyard, around which Wallsend has
always revolved, is closing and no-one knows what will come next, only that a
half-built ship towers over the terraces.
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| Lorne Campbell, Sting, Jimmy Nail Photo: Mark Savage |
The show is directed by Lorne
Campbell, the artistic director of Northern Stage, with set design by the Tony
Award-winning 59 Productions.
One of the country’s most
exciting and acclaimed theatre directors, Edinburgh-born Lorne Campbell had his
first professional job as an assistant director at Northern Stage, before
returning as artistic director in 2013. A graduate of Channel 4’s Young Theatre
Director scheme, he has previously worked with the Liverpool Everyman
Playhouse, Bath Theatre Royal, Traverse Theatre and Greyscale theatre company,
which he co-founded. Productions for Northern Stage include Get
Carter, Dr
Frankenstein and A
Song For Ella Grey.
This personal, political and
passionate new musical from multiple Grammy Award winner Sting, is an epic
account of a family, a community and a great act of defiance. With original
music and lyrics by Sting, The Last Ship also features a few of his best-loved songs Island
This is the proud story of when
the last ship sails.
Further casting to be
announced.
The Last Ship is produced by
Northern Stage in association with Karl Sydow and Kathryn Schenker.
2018 TOUR DATES & TICKET
DETAILS
Monday 12 March – Saturday 7
April
Box Office: www.northernstage.co.uk Telephone: 0191 230 5151
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Monday 9 – Saturday 14 April
everymanplayhouse.com | 0151
709 4776
Monday 16 – Saturday 21
April
THE NEW ALEXANDRA, BIRMINGHAM
atgtickets.com/Birmingham | 0844 871 7647
Monday 23 – Saturday 28
April
ROYAL & DERNGATE, NORTHAMPTON
royalandderngate.co.uk |
01604 624 811
Monday 30 April – Saturday 5
May
LEEDS GRAND THEATRE
leedsgrandtheatre.com | 0844
848 2700
Monday 7 – Saturday 12 May
nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk |
0115 941 9419
Monday 14 – Saturday 19 May
wmc.org.uk | 029 2063 6464
Monday 28 May – Saturday 2
June
BORD GAIS ENERGY THEATRE, DUBLIN
bordgaisenergytheatre.ie |
+353 1 677 7999
Monday 11 – Saturday 16 June
FESTIVAL THEATRE, EDINBURGH
edtheatres.com | 0131 529
6000
Monday 18 – Saturday 23 June
THEATRE ROYAL GLASGOW
atgtickets.com/Glasgow |
0844 871 7647
Monday 25 – Saturday 30 June
yorktheatreroyal.co.uk |
01904 623 568
Monday 2 – Saturday 7 July
THE LOWRY, SALFORD
thelowry.com | 0843 208
6000
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