British Council film

With our UK tour over, we're looking ahead to the Edinburgh Fringe.  So It Goes will return for a limited run from 24 to 30 August, back at Underbelly, Cowgate where we premiered the show last year.

This time, we're part of the British Council Edinburgh Showcase.  The British Council have made this fantastic film, featuring an interview with Hannah and footage from the show.

Tickets for Edinburgh are on sale now!

More Brighton buzz

Still mopping up tweets from Brighton Fringe!  Thanks to all our audiences over the weekend, we had a fantastic time.  The show heads to The Lowry in Manchester next, on Friday 15 May.  Click here for all our tour dates.

#BrightonFringe fantastic ,beautiful and totally original loved so it goes @OtherplaceBTN .deserves every praise going,MUST SEE DONT MISS!

— simon schneider (@antiqueman) May 9, 2015

In Exeter, Salford, Sheffield or London? Highly recommend seeing So it Goes from @ontheruntheatre on its tour http://t.co/SVAJaOfPdr

— Samuel French UK (@SamuelFrenchLtd) May 11, 2015

#BrightonFringe So it Goes @OtherplaceBTN absolutely brilliant, everything theatre should be

— Heather James (@funnyhorse) May 9, 2015

How good was @ontheruntheatre's So It Goes at @OtherplaceBTN tonight? Very moving and powerfully performed with a neat set. #brightonfringe

— RosieBlackwellSutton (@rmmbs) May 10, 2015

Just watched 'So It Goes' @brightonfringe beautiful, moving, devastatingly wonderful. Fantastic play. Everyone must see this! Cried so hard!

— Sara Huxley (@Sara_Huxley) May 10, 2015

@ontheruntheatre beautiful performance at the fringe yesterday, so pleased I made the journey down

— Adam Laurence Hedley (@AdamLHedley) May 11, 2015

'So it Goes' at the Basement is the best show I've seen this Brighton festival. The audience was in tears at the end http://t.co/2jnAcuWzXX

— Peter Chrisp (@PeterChrisp) May 9, 2015

#BrightonFringe fans, caught As It Goes by @ontheruntheatre last night - poignant, moving and beautiful, beautiful theatre - GO SEE!

— Jess Plant (@PTTjess) May 9, 2015

Postcards from tour

We've been having a fantastic time on tour and seeing some wonderful parts of the UK. From a performance in the gorgeous Cotswalds countryside, to chips on the beach in Margate.

Here are some photos and some of our Twitter reaction from this weekend's Brighton Fringe.

Halifax

Syde Barn, Cotswolds

On the beach in Margate

Margate Theatre Royal

The beach in Brighton

A note someone left for us in Brighton

Twitter buzz from Brighton Fringe

Had the pleasure of seeing the beautiful #SoItGoes by @ontheruntheatre at #brightonfringe last night. Theatre from deep inside the heart.

— John Hinton (@johnny_acecraft) May 11, 2015

@ontheruntheatre #Soitgoes is incredible theatre. Privileged to have watched such moving, & funny work. Beautifully crafted and performed.

— Jamie Martin (@JamieDMartin) May 10, 2015

@ontheruntheatre @OtherplaceBTN truly beautiful and heart breaking. Thank you for sharing your story with us xx

— Nathalie Codsi (@Nata_Angele) May 10, 2015

Loved So It Goes from @ontheruntheatre @brightonfringe. An intensely personal, inventive and beautiful piece of theatre. Catch it on tour.

— Samuel French UK (@SamuelFrenchLtd) May 10, 2015

Blown away by @ontheruntheatre's So It Goes @brightonfringe. Moving tale of loss & grief & one of the most original things I've seen in ages

— David Wright (@BitGay) May 10, 2015

Just had my heart broken by @ontheruntheatre's brilliant So It Goes.Go and support their final #BrightonFringe show tomorrow @OtherplaceBTN

— Ellen Carr (@racernell) May 9, 2015

Extra show announced for Shoreditch Town Hall

Possibly the best review we've ever had.  Certainly the most creative!

We're having a fantastic time performing So It Goes at Shoreditch Town Hall, in London. The final week has completely sold out and we've just announced an extra matinee performance at 4pm on Saturday 18th.  Tickets are going fast, so book ahead now!

The Times' Chief Theatre Critic, Dominic Maxwell, made us his Top Pick of the Week in Saturday's paper.  We were also a pick of the week in Metro and Time Out.

Since then, we've also had a 4 star review from Time Out and our second 5 star review from The Times!

Today, Metro put us in their Top 5 shows to see in London:

Here's a round-up of what our audiences have been saying on Twitter:

Can't recommend @ontheruntheatre more. Saw the show #ShoreditchTownHall last night& was captivated by the clever, hilarious & moving story
— Rachael Morrow (@RachHMorrow) April 16, 2015

Went to see the fantastic @ontheruntheatre this w/e.So it Goes: direct, slick, innovative.Dealing with the reality of grief.Cried buckets.
— Lizzy Clark (@Lizzydclark) April 15, 2015

Just saw @ontheruntheatre's #soitgoes for the second time tonight. Cried more than the 1st. Tickets still available: http://t.co/ckbHmpgRgm
— Daniel Saunders (@DJKSaunders) April 14, 2015

Wonderful show #SoItGoes by @ontheruntheatre runs at @ShoreditchTH til Sat 18th.Please see it if you can @showandtell http://t.co/VUyRO8WYDw
— Belisarius Mock (@sfeegrade) April 12, 2015

Loved @ontheruntheatre 's show this evening at @ShoreditchTH . A gentle and beautiful story!
— Toby Peach (@TobyPeach) April 11, 2015

@Show_And_Tell @ontheruntheatre @ShoreditchTH It's funny, very moving, brilliantly performed, and generally superb. Laughed,cried,loved it.
— Belisarius Mock (@sfeegrade) April 11, 2015

@ontheruntheatre funny, smart and moving. Really touched by the show this evening. Thank you for reminding me... she lived.
— Katie Edmondson (@Katie_Edmo) April 11, 2015

I went to see So It Goes last night at Shordeditch Town Hall. It was incredible. Please go see it and please take a tissue @ontheruntheatre
— Stacca (@Stacca) April 11, 2015

So It Goes come to London

Not long until So It Goes reaches London!  We're on at Shoreditch Town Hall for two weeks, from Wednesday 8 April to Saturday 18 April (not including Sunday 12 but yes including all the other days, including Monday 13).

We're very excited.  Home crowd!  In fact, we've been singing "So It Goes is coming home" to the tune of "Football's coming home" for over a week now.

Tickets available here.

David & Hannah x

Starting Blocks at Camden People's Theatre... it's over, sadface

On Sunday, we performed about 30 minutes of brand new material at Camden People’s Theatre.  We’ve been developing new ideas there since January, as part of CPT’s Starting Blocks scheme.  We’ve also been meeting with the other artists on the scheme every Monday, to share our experiences of making work and to find out more about each other’s creative processes.

It was fun to perform and we’re excited about how the show might develop from here.  There are some big creative questions to answer, in terms of how we tell this story.  But we’re confident that it’s a good story to be telling and we have a clearer idea of why we’re telling it and the shape of it.  

(I’m being deliberately non-specific here because I don’t like saying too much about a show before it’s finished!)

A heartfelt thanks to Camden People’s Theatre and our fellow Starting Blockers. 

Starting Blocks Class of 2015: Cape Theatre, Will Drew aka Venice As A Dolphin, Sh!t Theatre’s Rebecca Biscuit, Owl Young and Caretaker Ministry.

Thoughts on Battersea Arts Centre

The outpouring of grief and affection following the fire at Battersea Arts Centre has been extremely touching.  Much has been said about BAC’s importance; these pieces by Dan Rebellato and Catherine Love are particularly eloquent.

My first visit to BAC was to see 1927’s debut show Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea.   I didn’t live in London and travelling alone, with no understanding of London’s geography, meant the tube and bus journey required to get from King’s Cross to Battersea was quite an undertaking.  But that simply added to the sense of adventure and overwhelming excitement when I finally arrived.  I was wide-eyed as I entered that stunning building.  What a building and what a show.  I came back a week later to see it again.

When I put on my first proper show, Machines For Living, less than a year after leaving drama school, I invited every single theatre in London and beyond.  Only one replied.  BAC sent someone to see it.  When Hannah and I did a work in progress performance of So It Goes, we invited everyone we could think of.  BAC were the only people who came. For years, I knew that it was a place where people a few years older than me had got their first gigs.  I’d known it was a place who wouldn’t turn me away because my process didn’t start with a script. When that place sent someone to see my work, it meant the world.  And they were the only ones who did.

BAC are fundraising to allow them to rebuild and keep doing what they do so well.  You can donate here.

Meanwhile, the show goes on and I’m looking forward to seeing Caroline Horton’s show at BAC tomorrow.

David