When to Run
06/03/07
There is an exciting, funny and interesting show going on around the UK. DUKA is pleased to promote this show as it relates to running and it’s the work of Sophie Woolley, a deaf-writer and performer who is keen in athletics. This is her one person play about runners.
Still only halfway through her debut tour, Sophie Woolley has already wowed critics with her one person play When to Run. She received rave reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe festival and sold out a 400 capacity show at the Royal Festival Hall in London.
Written and performed by Sophie Woolley and directed by Gemma Fairlie, When to Run tells the compelling story of four women runners and a man who looks a bit like Tony Soprano. Sophie flits between characters in a beautifully written play of interwoven monologues which are at once hilarious and moving. A neurotic professional, an urban teenage athlete, a secretly miserable life coach and a dog walker who hates exercise. Their lives collide as they pound the pavements of London - with fatal consequences.
A must see for runners and couch potatoes alike.
Quotes:
"A stunning, electrifying show full of imagination and verve. Sophie
Woolley is massively talented and already becoming hugely successful." Irvine Welsh
"Sophie Woolley occupies the gap between the broad caricature comedy of Little Britain or The Catherine Tate Show and the sharp, dark literary satire of Martin Amis and Will Self. " Joe Muggs
"Like cult British TV show Nighty Night or Chris Morris' trend-destroying series Nathan Barley, Woolley writes dark, hilarious monologues in thrilling, hyper-real detail." Emma Warren, Electronic Beats
"In 'When to Run' Woolley dazzles with her quick-change mastery. In the shadow of a patriarch we never see or hear directly, four women's accounts break into each other with increasing fluency and wit: Greek tragedy meets txt msg culture in a London park." Tom McCarthy (author of Remainder)
"When you run, you're in your own world – but the women in Sophie Woolley's show are closer to each other than they think. Woolley plays three women and a girl finding more in running than just speed. There's a depressed yuppie wife, a controlling life coach, a needy dog walker and a teenage athlete – a wonderful creation." The Scotsman
Next date:
Tuesday 20 March 2007 BIRMINGHAM, Birmingham Repertory, Centenary Square, Broad Street, Birmingham B1 2EP £8 (£4 concessions) Box office: 0121 236 4455
The show is subtitled for deaf and hard of hearing people.
For further information:
Visit: www.sophiewoolley.com and www.myspace.com/sophiewoolley