Scytheplays Ltd: Together in Electric Dreams begins

5 Jul 2012

Together in Electric Dreams begins

Together in Electric Dreams began its run at the Lass O'Gowrie last night to great audience enjoyment. There are further performances planned for today (7pm and 9pm) and Sunday 8th July (2pm, 4pm and 6pm) so be sure to catch it!

Watch the Together in Electric Dreams trailer on YouTube

Naomi Sumner (pictured) has joined the cast as Akiko, the waitress who serves Alan and Sir Clive during their meal.

Naomi has worked as an actor, dancer and circus performer, is a former member of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and trained in Community Theatre at LIPA. Since graduating she has worked as a drama and dance facilitator throughout the North of England and set up her own arts workshop agency “All The Skills.”

It has been noted that there have been some problems booking tickets online, so here is a new link that should make things easier...

About the company

Scytheplays is a theatre company specialising in (but not limited to) the adaptation of literary science fiction for the stage.

Its first production was Kevin Cuffe's original black comedy play, The Say Can Blues, in July 2011, and it then produced an adaptation of the classic 2000AD comic book written by Alan Moore and drawn by Ian Gibson, The Ballad of Halo Jones. Both shows were staged at the Lass O'Gowrie in Manchester and Scytheplays has an on-going relationship with Lass Productions, going on to co-produce a new piece inspired by the true-life meeting between Sir Clive Sinclair and Alan Sugar, Together in Electric Dreams, an adaptation of Nigel Kneale's classic television play The Year of the Sex Olympics, the Leeds revival of Halo Jones, and the highly-acclaimed V for Vendetta and Wine of India. Scytheplays also collaborated with Lass Productions and Yer Maun Productions to co-found the Greater Manchester Horror Fringe Festival, which will be returning in October 2015.

Scytheplays works with a loose (and ever-expanding) pool of acting and production people, being keen to build on and strengthen the bonds within Manchester's creative community, and also to help new talent to emerge. The company's creative director is Daniel Thackeray and associated directors include Ross Kelly and Fi Hudson.

For more information please contact Daniel via guiltedge@hotmail.com or find us on Twitter (@ScytheplaysLtd). Proposals for new productions are encouraged, but we ask that any writers wishing to submit scripts send an enquiry e-mail in the first instance to ask if we are currently reading script submissions (as our reading team is small). Please be aware that the company aims in the main to produce plays that are either adapted from the science-fiction or fantasy of other media (literature/comics/TV), or original works that are concerned with real science and its history.

Scytheplays Ltd is a limited company, Companies House registration number 09041817.