Scytheplays Ltd: An encore for Together in Electric Dreams

23 Jul 2012

An encore for Together in Electric Dreams - and kudos for the Sex Olympics

Following excellent reviews ("Altogether a lot of laughs and worth a trip down memory lane" said Elaine O'Flynn in the Manchester Evening News, while the Fiction Stroker's five-out-of-five review can be read here), Together in Electric Dreams returns this week for two final performances in the Manchester Fringe Festival, on Thursday 26th July at 5.30pm and 7.30pm at the Lass O'Gowrie. Tickets can be booked here.

Watch the Together in Electric Dreams trailer

Listen to the actors discuss the play on BBC Radio Manchester

The top floor are quite satisfied: the Executive (Leni Murphy), Coordinator Priest (Howard Whittock), Misch (Louise Hamer) and Opie (Benjamin Patterson) congratulate themselves in The Year of the Sex Olympics.
Photo by Joanne Fountain

Meanwhile, The Year of the Sex Olympics too has been receiving a great response - very positive reviews from The Fiction Stroker and The Public Reviews, while Speaker to Animals has posted an brilliant in-depth analysis of Nigel Kneale's script here. The Year of the Sex Olympics is also returning for two final performances on Tuesday January 31st at the close of the Festival. Tickets are available here.

About the company

Scytheplays is a theatre company specialising in (but not limited to) the adaptation of literary science fiction for the stage.

Its first production was Kevin Cuffe's original black comedy play, The Say Can Blues, in July 2011, and it then produced an adaptation of the classic 2000AD comic book written by Alan Moore and drawn by Ian Gibson, The Ballad of Halo Jones. Both shows were staged at the Lass O'Gowrie in Manchester and Scytheplays has an on-going relationship with Lass Productions, going on to co-produce a new piece inspired by the true-life meeting between Sir Clive Sinclair and Alan Sugar, Together in Electric Dreams, an adaptation of Nigel Kneale's classic television play The Year of the Sex Olympics, the Leeds revival of Halo Jones, and the highly-acclaimed V for Vendetta and Wine of India. Scytheplays also collaborated with Lass Productions and Yer Maun Productions to co-found the Greater Manchester Horror Fringe Festival, which will be returning in October 2015.

Scytheplays works with a loose (and ever-expanding) pool of acting and production people, being keen to build on and strengthen the bonds within Manchester's creative community, and also to help new talent to emerge. The company's creative director is Daniel Thackeray and associated directors include Ross Kelly and Fi Hudson.

For more information please contact Daniel via guiltedge@hotmail.com or find us on Twitter (@ScytheplaysLtd). Proposals for new productions are encouraged, but we ask that any writers wishing to submit scripts send an enquiry e-mail in the first instance to ask if we are currently reading script submissions (as our reading team is small). Please be aware that the company aims in the main to produce plays that are either adapted from the science-fiction or fantasy of other media (literature/comics/TV), or original works that are concerned with real science and its history.

Scytheplays Ltd is a limited company, Companies House registration number 09041817.