Stovepipe named one of the Ten Best Theatre Productions of the Decade

Published December 31st 2009

Stovepipe by Adam Brace premiered in the HighTide Festival 2008, and transferred to London as a site-specific production with the National Theatre and Bush Theatre in March 2009. The production received five-star reviews from The Sunday Times, Time Out and Independent on Sunday, was listed as one of the Ten Best Theatre Productions of the Decade by The Sunday Times, and is currently nominated as 2009’s Best Off-West End Production by Whatsonstage.com. 

Expertly staged in the deliberately discomforting environs of a concrete basement in Shepherd’s Bush, this was one site-specific and promenade performance that really worked. Adam Brace’s play about mercenaries was one of the most coldly observant and convincing accounts of the 21st century’s interminable war on terror. The Times 

A rivetingly intelligent, action-packed play. This is a five-star production in power, ambition and sense of the way we live now. Sunday Times

Exhilaratingly convincing, inspired and informed. A highly impressive transfer from Suffolk's talent-nurturing HighTide Festival. Independent on Sunday

Inspires shock and awe. Time Out (Critics' Choice / Show of the week) 

Stovepipe and Fixer (HighTide Festival 2009) have been selected by the National Play Festival, Australia’s leading event for showcasing new unproduced plays by the leading national and international practitioners, as representatives of the best international new writing produced in the last year.

From February 15-20th 2010, HighTide are honoured to have been invited to perform at the annual Festival, which in 2010 takes place in Brisbane.

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