A CLOUD IN TROUSERS
A TRAGI-COMEDY ABOUT SEX, POETRY, POLITICS AND LOVE
A new play by STEVE TRAFFORD
Directed by DAMIAN CRUDEN
Designed by SIMON BANHAM
Music by CHRISTOPHER MADIN
Lighting by JUDE CLOKE
Cast:
Elizabeth Mansfield
Mark Payton
John Sackville
Gilly Tompkins
A CLOUD IN TROUSERS is a new play by Steve Trafford about the Russian Futurist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, and his relationships with Lili and Osip Brik. A CLOUD IN TROUSERS starts in the Stray Dog café and takes you to Moscow where this extraordinary threesome are living out a passionate and troubled ménage à trois. Whilst outside, on the streets, three hundred million people are changing the world, turning it upside down in the Bolshevik revolution, these three are trying to realise their revolutionary ideal of free love, without possessiveness, without jealousy.
MAYAKOVSKY, who began as a 'punk poet', a 'Futurist', revelling in revolution - 'Pub crawlers pull your hands from your pants/ Grab bombs, cobblestones, scythes or instead/ Those of you who haven't got arms or hands/ Batter at the walls with your heads' - became celebrated as the greatest Russian poet of the 20th century.
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| OCTOBER | Box Office | |
| Fri 1st - Sat 23rd | YORK Theatre Royal Studio | 01904 623568 |
| Thu 28th | New Vic Theatre, NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME | 01782 717962 |
| Sat 30th | Merlin Theatre, FROME | 01373 465949 |
| NOVEMBER | ||
| Mon 1st - Tue 2nd | The Lighthouse, POOLE | 01202 685222 |
| Thu 4th - Sat 20th | Southwark Playhouse, LONDON | 020 7620 3494 |
| Mon 22nd - Tue 23rd | Theatre by the Lake, KESWICK | 017687 74411 |
| Thu 25th - Fri 26th | Emlyn Williams Theatre, Clwyd Theatr Cymru, MOLD | 0845 3303565 |
| Sat 27th | The Marsden Theatre, Worden Arts & Crafts Centre, LEYLAND | 01772 455908 |
| DECEMBER | ||
| Wed 1st | Angles Theatre, WISBECH | 01945 474447 |
| Thu 2nd | LEIGHTON BUZZARD Theatre | 01525 378310 |
| Mon 6th - Tue 7th | Burton Taylor Studio, OXFORD Playhouse | 01865 305305 |
| Thu 9th - Sat 11th | Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal BATH | 01225 448844 |
