Joburg audiences finally get to experience the multiple award-winning one-woman play My Name Is Lucy Barton, and to see for themselves why the Cape Town audiences have been raving about the play that explores the delicate threads that connect us to our family and past.
My Name is Lucy Barton is on stage for a limited season at Theatre on the Square in Sandton from Wednesday 9th – Saturday 26th October 2024.
The production stars multiple award-nominated actor Julie-Anne McDowell (The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Revlon Girl) who takes the audience on an emotional journey of memories and reconciliation.
The play is directed by multiple-award winning Charmaine Weir-Smith (The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Train Driver). Design is by Kieran McGregor (Expelled).
Presented by How Now Brown Cow the multiple award-winning My Name Is Lucy Barton is written by Elizabeth Strout and adapted by Rona Munro. It is the story of a writer reckoning with the legacy of a scarred family life who is coming to terms with the cost of her childhood and the rewards of her art.
Longlisted for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016, the BAILEYS WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 and a #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout shows the most tender relationship of all – the one between a mother and daughter.
My Name Is Lucy Barton has been adapted for the stage as a one woman show by acclaimed TV, Film and Theatre writer Rona Munro (winner of the Evening Standard Award, NOOK Award and the Writer’s Guild of Great Britain Award). It opened at The Bridge Theatre in London in 2018 starring Laura Linney who reprised her role on Broadway in 2020.
My Name Is Lucy Barton – A synopsis
Lucy Barton wakes after an operation to discover – much to her surprise – her estranged mother at the foot of her bed. Over the course of her mother’s visit, she and Lucy seem to reconnect, but just below the surface lies the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy’s life.
Lucy’s encounter with her mother brings into sharp focus her troubled childhood in rural Illinois and her current life in New York City. Knitting these powerful memories together, Lucy begins to come to terms with her past and her future as a writer.
My Name is Lucy Barton is a story for anyone who has questioned how family defines oneself. It is a powerful narrative of hope and triumph about a woman who finds her truth and reclaims her story.
My Name is Lucy Barton will be on stage at Theatre On The Square in Sandton, Johannesburg for a limited season from Wednesday 9th – Saturday 26th October 2024.
Performances are Tuesdays – Fridays @ 19h30, Saturdays @ 16h00 & 19h30 and Sundays @ 15h00.
The show is 80 minutes in duration, with no interval, and carries a suggested age-appropriate restriction of no under 12s.
Tickets are R230 per person, with discounts available for senior citizens, students, scholars over 12 and groups of 10 or more. Bookings are via Computicket .
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My Name is Lucy Barton is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
My Name is Lucy Barton was originally produced on Broadway by the Manhattan Theatre Club, Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director, Barry Grove, Executive Producer, The London Theatre Company, Nicholas Hytner, Nick Starr, in association with Penguin Random House Audio on January 15, 2020.
My Name is Lucy Barton was originally produced by Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr for the London Theatre Company at the Bridge Theatre in June 2018.
