We’ve just announced the full tour dates for SESSIONS by Ifeyinwa Frederick, a co-production between PP and Soho Theatre, which will be directed by Philip Morris and will tour the UK from 28 September to 31 October, before a four-week run at Soho Theatre 08 November to 05 December. Tickets for SESSIONS at Soho Theatre are onsale for members from today and onsale to the general public from Thursday – you can book them here: https://sohotheatre.com/shows/sessions/
In 2019 we co-commissioned a new play by Ifeyinwa Frederick, one of the 2019 Soho Six, in a yearlong attachment programme for artists run by Soho Theatre. This play is the result of that commission.
We’re partnering with Trybe House Theatre, a newly formed company which seeks to actively build resilience and self well-being, particularly with young black men aged 16-25, to deliver a programme of workshops to our national audiences alongside the tour.
About SESSIONS:
“30 just matters, init. Like there’s no doubt you’re a proper adult then. Like 25 to 29 is just training but 30, it’s real.”
Tunde’s 30th birthday is fast approaching. So he’s just started therapy because he hasn’t been able to get to the gym for weeks and a recent one night stand ended in tears – his.
Interrogating the challenge of opening up and accepting our own vulnerabilities, SESSIONS by Ifeyinwa Frederick is a raw, funny, bittersweet deep-dive into the complexities of masculinity, depression and therapy.
About Ifeyinwa:
Ifeyinwa is a fervent believer in the power of storytelling and human connection, which fuels her work as a writer and entrepreneur. In need of a creative outlet outside of her business, she began writing and joined Soho Theatre Writers’ Lab. Supported by the programme, she wrote her debut play THE HOES which received a full production at Hampstead Theatre in 2018. The play was shortlisted for the Tony Craze Award and Character 7 Award and longlisted for the Verity Bargate Award. Writing alongside her full-time job as co-founder of Chuku’s – the world’s first Nigerian tapas restaurant – she’s a Young British Foodie award winner and has been featured in Forbes’ list of 100 Female Founders in Europe.
About Philip:
Philip Morris has been a Trainee Director at the Royal Court. He was previously Senior Youth Theatre Director at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre (The REP). After graduating from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Philip began work as an intern at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and the Birmingham Hippodrome. Approximately halfway through his 6-month internship he was asked to deliver a pitch for Mind Charity for a pilot project named Up MY Street working closely with vulnerable young black men on behalf of The REP. He was successful in the pitch which then led to him creating Lightpost Theatre Company. He has since gone on to direct work for the National Theatre, Company Three, the Young Vic and is the now Artistic Director of his own theatre company Trybe House Theatre.
We will tour the UK as follows…
29 September
30 September
01 October
02 October
04 October
05 October
06 October
07 October
09 October
12 October
13 October
14 October
15 October
16 October
THE SPRING ARTS CENTRE, HAVANT
19 October
20 October
22 October
23 October
25 October
27 October
28 October
29 October
30 October
You can keep up with the tour using the hashtag #SESSIONS.
Thanks to the brilliant Rebecca Need-Menear and Thread Design for the cracking new image.