The Summer House

By
Will Adamsdale, Neil Haigh, Matthew Steer & John Wright
Produced by
Fuel
Dates
11 Mar 2011 - 24 Mar 2012
Artist/Company
Will Adamsdale, Neil Haigh, Matthew Steer & John Wright

Fuel presents The Summer House

By Will Adamsdale, Neil Haigh, Matthew Steer & John Wright

Three not-so-alpha males are AWOL on a stag night in Iceland.

Then the Vikings arrive.

Mountains, myths, and middle-class angst, in a new play about friendship and modern masculinity. And the weather.

The Summer House was a first-time collaboration between Will Adamsdale (Jackson’s Way), Neil Haigh (Cartoon de Salvo), Matthew Steer (Britain’s Best Mates), and John Wright (co-founder of Told by an Idiot and Trestle).

Commissioned by Corn Exchange Newbury. Developed as part of Fuel at the Roundhouse and the Jerwood Residencies at Cove Park, which are supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation. Funded by Arts Council England. Production time in kind provided by artsdepot. Presented as part of Gate Guests.

Image: Edmund Collier

Creative Team

Devised by Will Adamsdale, Neil Haigh, Matthew Steer, and John Wright. Directed by John Wright

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"**** Warm, funny, spot-on comedy with dark undertones – very entertaining."

Whatsonstage

"**** ...ingenious comedy... deliciously leftfield fare and more than just a conventional satire such as Men Behaving Badly... The real treat is the ingenuity with which the tale is told."

Time Out

"A wonderful homage to male bonding' - Exeunt Magazine 'It's likely to be an offbeat evening, and totally disrespectful of the boundaries between comedy and theatre, high and low art."

The Guardian (preview)

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Project History

11/03/2011
artsdepot
London
14/03/2011 - 15/03/2011
Burton Taylor Studio at Oxford Playhouse
Oxford
17/03/2011 - 19/03/2011
Ustinov Studio
Bath
23/03/2011
Brewery Arts Centre
Kendal
24/03/2011
Hull Truck Theatre
Hull
29/03/2011 - 30/03/2011
Unity Theatre
Liverpool
31/03/2011 - 02/04/2011
Northern Stage
Newcastle
05/04/2011 - 09/04/2011
Drum Theatre
Plymouth
03/05/2011 - 04/05/2011
Warwick Arts Centre
Coventry
08/05/2011
Parabola Arts Centre
Cheltenham
10/05/2011 - 11/05/2011
New Greenham Arts
Greenham
12/05/2011 - 14/05/2011
Bristol Old Vic, as part of Mayfest
Bristol
15/07/2011 - 16/07/2011
Latitude Festival
Southwold
04/12/2011 - 28/02/2012
Gate Theatre, select nights only
London