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Wed 01 Dec 2010 @ 19:00
ypia Theatre - trip to see MIDSUMMER @ Tricycle Theatre - 269 Kilburn High Road, London, NW6 7JR

Missed it in Edinburgh? Couldn't get a ticket for the London run earlier this year? Well now, as part of ypia Theatre's December event, you can catch the Traverse Theatre Company's Edinburgh hit MIDSUMMER (a play with songs) by David Greig & Gordon McIntyre, when it comes to the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn. The lowest price public tickets for this performance are £15, but the Tricycle have generously given ypia the chance to see Midsummer on 1 December at the exclusively reduced rates of £8.50 for ypia members, and £10 for ypia mailing list subscribers. To buy tickets, please visit www.ypia.co.uk/events

About MIDSUMMER [a play with songs] by David Greig & Gordon McIntyre

It’s Midsummer’s weekend in Edinburgh. It’s raining. Two thirtysomethings are sitting in a New Town bar waiting for something to turn up. He’s a failing car salesman on the fringes of the city’s underworld and she’s a high powered divorce lawyer with a taste for other people’s husbands. She’s out of his league and he’s not her type at all. They absolutely should not sleep together. Ever. Ever.

Which is why they do. Midsummer [a play with songs] is the story of Bob and Helena and a great lost weekend of bridge burning, car chases, wedding bust-ups, bondage miscalculations, midnight trysts and horrible hungover self loathing misery.

Featuring Cora Bissett and Matthew Pidgeon as the ill-advised love match, Midsummer is a quirky, charming love story by one of Scotland’s leading playwrights, David Greig and top Edinburgh singer/songwriter, Gordon McIntyre of the band ballboy.

**** ‘Exhilarating… You float out laughing as if you’ve just swallowed sunshine on a spoon‘ The Guardian
***** ‘A tragicomedy, with hope’ Time Out
***** ‘A proper romantic comedy… Very special indeed’ Evening Standard

ypia acknowledges the kind support of this event by The Tricycle Theatre