Cheshire playwright’s work to be staged at The Lowry

Oct 2 2008 Chester Chronicle

A YOUNG playwright currently working with the Chester-based Action Transport Company and Chester Performs will see another of her works performed at The Lowry, Salford Quays, next week (October 9-11).

Sarah Macdonald Hughes, whose parents live in Ellesmere Port, wrote A Song for the Lovers for Monkeywood, the company she formed with fellow theatre student Francesca Waite when both were in sixth form college in Manchester.

The pair have had a number of successes and next week both will be on stage as their latest production is performed as part of The Lowry’s new Studio season.

Directed by Jo Fisher, who was recently in BBC’s Waterloo Road, it’s an updated version of the original play which opened the Studio’s first season two years ago.

A Song for the Lovers is the funny, compelling story of an unlikely friendship and an impossible evening in a deserted nightclub in a Manchester nightclub, as three desperate people search for an escape route that keeps drifting away.

Hughes will then be back with the Chester project for young writers and the play they have written called A Million Shades of Pink, which will be performed in the city on October 18 and 19.

Tickets are available from the box office on 0870 787 5793 or visit www.thelowry.com.