Rita, Sue and Bob Too/A State Affair

Archive Listings for Rita, Sue and Bob Too/A State Affair

T1223450062 (OOJ01) Company Out of Joint. Company Everyman and Playhouse. Company Soho Theatre Company. Director Max Stafford-Clark. Design Es Devlin. Lighting Johanna Town. Sound Frank Bradley. Performer Emily Aston. Performer Ian Redford. Performer Emma Rydal. Performer Matthew Wait. Performer Gary Whitaker. Performer Jane Wood. Performer Paul Jesson. Performer Ian Redford. Performer Lise Stevenson.
5 Feb 02 to 9 Feb 02	Northern Stage (previously known as Newcastle Haymarket Playhouse), Newcastle upon Tyne :: V568 listing details L1138474204
14 Jan 02 to 2 Feb 02	West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds :: V977 listing details L165679564
28 Nov 01 to 12 Jan 02	Soho Theatre, Inner London :: V1035 listing details L01202041055
6 Feb 01 to 10 Feb 01	Arts Theatre, Cambridge :: V19 listing details L01560702503
1 Feb 01 to 3 Feb 01	Blackpool Grand Theatre, Blackpool :: V518 listing details L1826273825
29 Jan 01 to 30 Jan 01	Alhambra Theatre, Bradford :: V965 listing details L1346686839
23 Jan 01 to 27 Jan 01	Library Theatre, Manchester :: V487 listing details L0161371608
16 Jan 01 to 20 Jan 01	Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry :: V156 listing details L02036314480
T1719035582 (OOJ00) Company Out of Joint. Company Everyman and Playhouse. Company Soho Theatre Company. Director Max Stafford-Clark.
5 Dec 00 to 13 Jan 01	Soho Theatre, Inner London :: V1035 listing details L0483954530
28 Nov 00 to 2 Dec 00	Theatre Royal, Plymouth :: V895 listing details L452814832
7 Nov 00 to 11 Nov 00	The Playhouse, Oxford :: V803 listing details L0495407768
T0659471338 (OOJ00) Company Out of Joint (in a co-production with Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse and Soho Theatre Company). Director Max Stafford-Clark. Design Es Devlin. Lighting Johanna Town. Performer Emily Aston. Performer Ian Redford. Performer Sally Rogers. Performer Emma Rydal. Performer Matthew Wait. Performer Gary Whitaker. Performer Jane Wood.
14 Nov 00 to 18 Nov 00	Mercury Theatre, Colchester :: V37 listing details L767903144
19 Oct 00 to 4 Nov 00	Everyman Theatre, Liverpool :: V535 listing details L01640699502

Details

Play :: Rita, Sue and Bob Too (Bradford 1982). A State Affair (Today's stories Yorkshire, 2000). Sharp, funny and disarmingly direct, Andrea Dunbar's semi-autobiographical Rita, Sue and Bob Too follows the lives of two feisty schoolgirls who grow up on a Bradford estate and start an affair with a married man. A comic classic Rita, Sue and Bob Too caught the mood of the early Thatcher years and became widely recognised as a marker of its time. Eighteen years later, life on Britain's council estates is back in the spotlight as reports of a hidden underclass begin to emerge. In the summer of 2000, Max Stafford-Clark and Out of Joint's actors journeyed back to the estates around Bradford and Leeds where Andrea Dunbar grew up. A State Affair is a record of what they found - has life there changed since the 1980's, or for that matter the 1880's? This production contains scenes and language which may offend some people.

Author	Andrea Dunbar
Author	Robin Soans