Steamie Cast Announced
Casting for Thirtieth anniversary tour
The full cast has been announced for the nine-week Autumn tour of The Steamie, which will play the Edinburgh King’s in November 2017.
The phenomenally successful show about four women gossiping on a 1950s Old Year’s Night in the last days of the Glasgow wash-houses has become staple on the amateur circuit and last had a fully professional tour in 2012.
Fiona Wood, Libby McArthur, Tony Roper, Mary McCusker, Steven McNicoll and Carmen Pieraccini. Photo: Neil Laidlaw Productions.
Written by Tony Roper, with songs by David Anderson, it was first staged in May 1987. A version was made by Scottish Television for Hogmanay 1988. Roper will directing the touring production which sets out from Kirkcaldy in September.
Two of the cast from the 2012 tour will be returning. Mary McCusker is reprising her role as old Mrs Culfeathers who harks back to the past, Fiona Wood returns as young Doreen, whose idea of the future is so optimistic that her idea of nirvana is a Drumchapel council house.
Joining them will be Libby McArthur as larger-than-life, busybody Dolly with Carmen Pieraccini as the harsh-tongued Magrit, whose husband is a no-good drunkard. Steven McNicoll is the play’s token man, Andy the wash-house janitor.
Listings
The Steamie
King’s Theatre, 2 Leven Street EH3 9LQ.
Mon 6 – Sat 11 November 2017
Evenings: 7.30pm; Matinees Weds, Sat: 2.30pm.
Tickets and details: http://www.edtheatres.com/steamie
Click on the images to buy the 1988 TV version and Roper’s novelisation of his own script on Amazon:
| The Steamie on tour 2017: | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 6 – Sat 9 Sept | Kirkcaldy Adam Smith Theatre |
01592 583302 | Book online |
| Tue 12 – Sat 16 Sept | Aberdeen His Majesty’s Theatre |
01224 641122 | Book online |
| Mon 18 – Sat 23 Sept | Dundee Rep |
01382 223530 | Book online |
| Tue 26 – Sat 30 Sept | Ayr Gaiety |
01292 288235 | Book online |
| Mon 2 – Sat 7 Oct | Inverness Eden Court |
01463 234 234 | Book online |
| Tue 10 – Sat 14 Oct | Stirling MacRobert Arts Centre |
01786 466666 | Book online |
| Mon 23 Oct – Sat 4 Nov | Glasgow King’s Theatre |
0844 871 7648 | Book online |
| Mon 6 – Sat 11 Nov | Edinburgh King’s Theatre |
0131 529 6000 | Book online |
Saw your production today. It was superb. Having seen several versions over the years, I feel I don’t want to see it again. You topped the lot !
Best wishes for the rest of the tour.
Elaine Wilson, a “Steamie ” lover