NZ Int'l Arts Festival 12 - Beautiful Burnout
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With flinchingly realistic training and fight sequences, Beautiful Burnout channels the breathless physical action that audiences loved in Black Watch. But this is much more than just flying fists. Writer Bryony Laverys heart-wrenching and deeply human story follows five young fighters as they desperately try to escape Glasgows mean, grey streets. Friendship, family, beliefs what are they willing to sacrifice? All is revealed as the sweat, punches, blood and banter start to fly.
Co-produced by award-winning companies Frantic Assembly (Stockholm, Othello) and the National Theatre of Scotland (Black Watch, The Bacchae) this compelling drama was born out of a unplanned trip to a New York boxing gym. Through spectacular staging, Beautiful Burnout literally takes audiences into the heart of the action. With a boxing ring on a revolving stage and a backdrop of glittering video screens, the audience sits ringside for a night of drama that packs a punch in more ways than one.
Writer Bryony Lavery.
Directors/Choreographers Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett
With Stuart Martin, Blythe Duff, Kevin Guthrie, Eddie Kay, Vicki Manderson, Taqi Nazeer, Ewan Stewart
Co-produced by award-winning companies Frantic Assembly (Stockholm, Othello) and the National Theatre of Scotland (Black Watch, The Bacchae) this compelling drama was born out of a unplanned trip to a New York boxing gym. Through spectacular staging, Beautiful Burnout literally takes audiences into the heart of the action. With a boxing ring on a revolving stage and a backdrop of glittering video screens, the audience sits ringside for a night of drama that packs a punch in more ways than one.
Writer Bryony Lavery.
Directors/Choreographers Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett
With Stuart Martin, Blythe Duff, Kevin Guthrie, Eddie Kay, Vicki Manderson, Taqi Nazeer, Ewan Stewart
