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

SELBY TOWN HALL

 

30 September

ARTS CENTRE WASHINGTON

 

01 October

THE MALTINGS, BERWICK

 

02 October

ROSEHILL THEATRE , WHITEHAVEN

 

04 October

MIDDLESBROUGH TOWN HALL

 

05 October

CAST, DONCASTER

 

06 October

MILL ARTS, BANBURY

 

07 October

THE HAT FACTORY, LUTON

 

09 October

THE EDGE, MANCHESTER

 

12 October

ARTS DEPOT, LONDON

 

13 October

THE OLD MARKET, BRIGHTON

 

14 October

MARINE THEATRE, LYME REGIS

 

15 October

VENTNOR EXCHANGE

 

16 October

THE SPRING ARTS CENTRE, HAVANT

 

19 October

THE GARAGE, NORWICH

 

20 October

KEY THEATRE, PETERBOROUGH

 

22 October

NORDEN FARM

 

23 October

DERBY THEATRE

 

25 October

UNITY THEATRE, LIVERPOOL


27 October

SOUTH HILL PARK

 

28 October

POUND ARTS

 

29 October

TRESTLE ARTS BASE

 

30 October

YVONNE ARNAUD

 

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.

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