Writer: Ben Tagoe
Director: Duncan Marwick
Designer: Kelly Jago
Performers: Antony J Irwin, Olivia Williamson, Natalie Bellingham, Lladel Bryant, Sharron Fenton.
Photos by Caina Cuthbertson
Performance opened the Emerge Festival at The Carriageworks, Millennium Square, Leeds Mon 21 & Tues 22 June @ 7.30pm
Reviews: digyorkshire.com/ Dickie & Butch
Terry is living the dream. Twenty years after escaping from grey England, he's now the proud licensee of a beach bar on the Costa Brava. But Terry's Utopian England in the sun has a cloud floating above it - namely the arrival of his niece Hayley, who reopens his oldest wounds and forces him to confront a dark past. Terry's been running all his life and now he's on the verge of running again.
Solomon is a beachhawker from Sierra Leone who earns a few extra Euros helping Terry to sweep his terrace every day. Like Terry, Solomon is also running from some demons. Will either of them be brave enough to go home and face up to their past?
‘Bittersweet Sunshine’ is Ben Tagoe’s first commission with Red Grit (Red Grit is Red Ladder's Actor Training project) and Red Ladder is proud to produce this new play by a Yorkshire based playwright.