Embra Fringe comes South

LONG LIVE THE LITTLE KNIFE

Written and directed by David Leddy

Performed by Wendy Seager (Susurrus, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice)
and Neil McCormack (Ae Fond Kiss, The Blue Room)

Following a phenomenally successful run at the Traverse Theatre, and 15 **** reviews during the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the production will be touring Scotland from the end of August - from the Highlands to the Scottish Borders. 

Long Live The Little Knife is a dynamic, absurd and uplifting theatre piece about forgery, castration and blind drunkenness. The show began life as a mini-commission for the Royal Shakespeare Company in the British Museum. It got such an overwhelming response that David Leddy has brought the characters back for a full-length escapade for the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe following three preview performances in Glasgow.

“…a fantastic exhibition of verbal pyrotechnics” ★★★★ The Scotsman

“… fantastical flight of fancy” ★★★★ The Herald 

Liz and Jim are a husband and wife team of forgers who have risen to great heights and fallen to great depths in their careers as con artists and counterfeiters. They are caught in a turf war over fake vintage handbags. They need to find £250 grand in protection money. Their Big Boss, The Wee Man, convinces them to undertake a harebrained mission to up their game and become the world’s greatest art forgers. There’s only one problem. They can’t paint.

In this fast-paced, provocative and boisterous caper Leddy finds the incongruous connections between verbatim theatre, free-market economics, the psychology of ‘truth’ and a castrated labradoodle in a classic Chanel clutch bag. 

Local date and nearish others:

Wednesday 18 September, 7:30pm 
The CatStrand, New Galloway 
Tickets: £10/£8
01644 420374 www.catstrand.com

Friday 6 September, 7:30pm 

Eastgate Theatre & Arts Centre, Peebles 
Tickets: £14/£5
01721 725 777 www.eastgatearts.com

Wednesday 4 September, 7pm 
The Maltings Theatre, Berwick-Upon-Tweed  
Tickets: £12/£10.50 
01289 330 999 www.maltingsberwick.co.uk

Trailer - here

One of the two performers in 'Long Live the Little Knife' is Dumfries born Neil McCormack - Neil attended Georgetown Primary School, Dumfries High School and was a member of the Junior Guild of Players.