We Love You Arthur
by Fiona Evans
15 - 20 July 2024 7.15pm
The hilarious story of two teenage girls in a small Durham mining village during the Miners’ Strike in 1984.
Julie and Lisa are best friends, coming of age in Easington Colliery. Whilst their parents’ lives are being torn apart by the devastation of the strike, the girls are focussed on a comical, crackpot criminal scheme to meet their idol and crush, the formidable union leader Arthur Scargill. But what happens when the challenges and the impacts of the strike come closer to home? Can their friendship survive? Will they get to meet Arthur?
DIRECTOR
Lee Brannigan
CAST
To be confirmed
PRODUCTION TEAM
To be confirmed
Image of Arthur Scargill used with kind permission
About Fiona Evans
Fiona Evans is an award winning playwright who writes for theatre, television and radio. In 2005 she wrote We Love You, Arthur, which received its first performance at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Her play Scarborough, about an illicit affair between a teacher and a pupil, received its first performance in a one act version in 2006 at Apartment in Newcastle, and went on to win a Fringe First award at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Other plays include Geoff Dead: Disco for Sale (2008) and The Price of Everything (2010). Her plays for radio include The Startling Truths of Old World Sparrows, received the Grand Prix Nova International Radio Drama Festival silver award for its novel casting of children in the roles of octogenarians.
After graduating from the BBC Writers Academy in 2008, Fiona wrote for TV shows such as Eastenders, Casualty and Hollyoaks. In 2019 she was awarded a doctorate from Newcastle University. She and her partner live on a farm in Scotland, where they breed horses for National Hunt racing.
Running time approximately 2 hours 30 minutes
Online booking available soon.
