18 February 2019
Newsdesk
Fuel have today announced the cast for the UK tour of Inua Ellams’ critically acclaimed Barber Shop Chronicles which returns by popular demand.
Maynard Eziashi, Mohammed Mansaray, Anthony Ofoegbu, Jo Servi and David Webber continue in their roles following the hugely successful tours of Australia, New Zealand, the United States of America and Canada. Michael Balogun, Tobi Bamtefa, Adé Dee Haastrup, Emmanuel Ighodaro, Demmy Ladipo, Rudolphe Mdlongwa, and Elander Moore join the cast which opens at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, in partnership with Contact, on 7th March 2019.
Newsroom, political platform, local hot-spot, confession box, preacher-pulpit and football stadium - for generations, African men have gathered in barber shops to discuss the world.
These are places where the banter can be barbed and the truth is always telling.
Directed by Bijan Sheibani and designed by Rae Smith, Barber Shop Chronicles is a heart-warming, hilarious and insightful new play that leaps from a barber shop in Peckham to Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos, and Accra over the course of a single day.
Barber Shop Chronicles is a Fuel, National Theatre and Leeds Playhouse co-production.
BARBER SHOP CHRONICLES
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in partnership with Contact
March 7th – 23rd 2019
www.royalexchange.co.uk
www.contactmcr.com
Leicester Curve
April 3rd – 6th 2019
www.curveonline.co.uk
Bristol Old Vic
May 2nd – 18th 2019
www.bristololdvic.org.uk
Sheffield Crucible
May 22nd – June 1st 2019
www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk
Roundhouse, London
July 18th – August 24th
www.roundhouse.org.uk/
Leeds Playhouse
DATES TBC
www.leedsplayhouse.org.uk
Oxford Playhouse
October 9th – 12th 2019
www.oxfordplayhouse.com
Nuffield Southampton Theatres
November 13th – 16th 2019
www.nstheatres.co.uk
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