The UK tour of Sheila’s Island will star Olivier Award winner Sara Crowe (Private Lives, Aldwych Theatre; Calendar Girls the Musical, UK Tour and West End; Four Weddings and a Funeral), Eastern Eye Award winner Rina Fatania (Waking/Walking, Kiln Theatre; Dead Dog in a Suitcase, UK and International tour), Judy Flynn (The Brittas Empire, BBC; Dinnerladies, BBC), and Abigail Thaw (Endeavour, ITV).
The tour will be at Brighton Theatre Royal from 19th – 23rd April 2022.
This gender-swapped reimagining of Tim Firth’s sharp-witted and highly acclaimed comedy Neville’s Island sees four women try to survive an outward bound team-building weekend. Sheila’s Island illuminates the vulnerability, viciousness, and absurdity of office relationships and asks the big questions: ‘Is it possible to build an adequate night shelter with a prom dress and a sleeveless jumper?’, ‘Do endless verses of Kumbaya really keep up spirits?’ and ‘Why go to the Lakes when you could go to a spa?’
With vulnerability, viciousness, painful honesty and great wit, we can all (female or male) see some of ourselves in Sheila, Denise, Fay and Julie. Tim Firth comments, As a male writer I initially thought what happens on the island could only happen between men. It took Joanna Read to remind me that shoddy, childish and viciously destructive behaviour is not the exclusive preserve of the male sex. Joanna Read, Director of Sheila’s Island and Chief Executive of Yvonne Arnaud Theatre comments, I’ve had a very enjoyable time demonstrating to Tim quite how mean women can be. I’m thrilled to be working with such a talented, well-known cast. They have so much comedy experience between them it’s going to be hysterical working together.
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