January- March:

• National tour of Flesh fly, a new adaptation of Ben Johnson’s Volpone, starring Nabil Shaban launches.

  Graeae’s words: “Morally destitute and proud of it, Volpone conspires with his servant Mosca – and his insatiably weird retinue of bastard offspring – to prove that he is not the only one who will stop at nothing. Masquerading as terminally ill, he diverts the great and the good, the innocent and the cunning to his bedside. All hope to be his heir, but as they charge towards Volpone’s death, his undeniable good health and the guile of his slave confounds them all … Not least Volpone himself. Mosca is a parasite. He is the flesh fly that feeds on the work of others. And wherever he finds intrigue, he will find his meat.”

  Reviewer’s words: “Ewan Marshall’s production has all the bizarre, anarchic anger of a Quentin Tarantino reading of Punch and Judy” – The Guardian

Summer:

• Sympathy for the Devil, a co-production with Basic Theatre Company, embarked on a nation tour. The play was written by Roy Winston and directed by Ray Harrison Graham, previously seen in Graeae’s production of Soft Vengeance.

  Graeae’s Words: “Once in church when I was a boy, I asked an elderly relative why I had a disability. Taking my hand he replied “God loves all his children but sometimes the Devil tries to hurt them”. He then gave me a sympathetic smile and patted me on the head … it was that simple.”