Leave to Remain Tickets
Lyric Hammersmith
An interrogative, visceral new play by Matt Jones and Kele Okereke, Leave to Remain addresses a range of prescient themes. Movement, music and an engrossing script help to tell this important tale.
A young, gay couple just want to be together and lead a normal life, but the British Government’s ‘hostile environment’ policy has other things in mind. As they are forced to navigate the Home Office’s visa process, which is designed to divide families, Leave to Remain is the powerful new play that tells the story of their love with movement, music and gripping text.
Matt Jones (Mr Selfridge, Doctor Who, Torchwood) and Kele Okereke, who is founding member of music band Bloc Party, have jointly written the script and songs, and Robby Graham directs. Graham is the Artistic Director of Southpaw Dance Company, with recent credits including choreography for the National Theatre’s Pericles and Angels in America, and co-directing Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing for the Greenwich and Docklands Festival.
Tyrone Huntley takes on the role of Obi. Named by the Evening Standard as one of London’s hottest new talents, Huntley has an incredible list of credits, including the West End productions of Jesus Christ Superstar, Dreamgirls and Memphis, as well as Angry, Homos or Everyone on America and regionally A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hairspray.
Huntley is joined by Billy Cullum (Little Shop of Horrors), Emma Amos (Sweet Bird of the South), Rakie Ayola (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child), Aretha Ayeh (Miss Littlewood), Arun Blair-Mangat (Kinky Boots), Sandy Batchelor (Strangers on a Train) and Cornell S John (The Lion King). Further casting news is yet to be announced.
A visceral new production, Leave to Remain runs for a limited season at London's Lyric Hammersmith from 18 January to 16 February 2019, with a press night on 24 January 2019. This relevant piece of new writing addresses an array of themes, from politics to family to love, and the power the government has to keep couples together or tear them apart.
Matt Jones (Mr Selfridge, Doctor Who, Torchwood) and Kele Okereke, who is founding member of music band Bloc Party, have jointly written the script and songs, and Robby Graham directs. Graham is the Artistic Director of Southpaw Dance Company, with recent credits including choreography for the National Theatre’s Pericles and Angels in America, and co-directing Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing for the Greenwich and Docklands Festival.
Tyrone Huntley takes on the role of Obi. Named by the Evening Standard as one of London’s hottest new talents, Huntley has an incredible list of credits, including the West End productions of Jesus Christ Superstar, Dreamgirls and Memphis, as well as Angry, Homos or Everyone on America and regionally A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hairspray.
Huntley is joined by Billy Cullum (Little Shop of Horrors), Emma Amos (Sweet Bird of the South), Rakie Ayola (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child), Aretha Ayeh (Miss Littlewood), Arun Blair-Mangat (Kinky Boots), Sandy Batchelor (Strangers on a Train) and Cornell S John (The Lion King). Further casting news is yet to be announced.
A visceral new production, Leave to Remain runs for a limited season at London's Lyric Hammersmith from 18 January to 16 February 2019, with a press night on 24 January 2019. This relevant piece of new writing addresses an array of themes, from politics to family to love, and the power the government has to keep couples together or tear them apart.
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