Scytheplays Ltd: Tickets now on sale for The Year of the Sex Olympics

22 Jun 2012

Tickets now on sale for The Year of the Sex Olympics

Tickets for the Scytheplays/Lass O'Gowrie Productions adaptation of The Year of the Sex Olympics are now available for online purchase here.

The Greater Manchester Fringe Festival, which launches on Sunday July 1st, showcases a wide variety of entertainment including a new stage production of Porridge, new comedy with Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer, jazz music from the Freedom Principle, more sci-fi with the Doctor Who spin-off Robots of Death, and original stage drama such as AfterWords, Bottled Wasps and Scytheplays' own Together in Electric Dreams. For the full run-down of the many and various events, please visit the festival website.

About the company

Scytheplays is a theatre company specialising in (but not limited to) the adaptation of literary science fiction for the stage.

Its first production was Kevin Cuffe's original black comedy play, The Say Can Blues, in July 2011, and it then produced an adaptation of the classic 2000AD comic book written by Alan Moore and drawn by Ian Gibson, The Ballad of Halo Jones. Both shows were staged at the Lass O'Gowrie in Manchester and Scytheplays has an on-going relationship with Lass Productions, going on to co-produce a new piece inspired by the true-life meeting between Sir Clive Sinclair and Alan Sugar, Together in Electric Dreams, an adaptation of Nigel Kneale's classic television play The Year of the Sex Olympics, the Leeds revival of Halo Jones, and the highly-acclaimed V for Vendetta and Wine of India. Scytheplays also collaborated with Lass Productions and Yer Maun Productions to co-found the Greater Manchester Horror Fringe Festival, which will be returning in October 2015.

Scytheplays works with a loose (and ever-expanding) pool of acting and production people, being keen to build on and strengthen the bonds within Manchester's creative community, and also to help new talent to emerge. The company's creative director is Daniel Thackeray and associated directors include Ross Kelly and Fi Hudson.

For more information please contact Daniel via guiltedge@hotmail.com or find us on Twitter (@ScytheplaysLtd). Proposals for new productions are encouraged, but we ask that any writers wishing to submit scripts send an enquiry e-mail in the first instance to ask if we are currently reading script submissions (as our reading team is small). Please be aware that the company aims in the main to produce plays that are either adapted from the science-fiction or fantasy of other media (literature/comics/TV), or original works that are concerned with real science and its history.

Scytheplays Ltd is a limited company, Companies House registration number 09041817.