Award-Winning SUPERFAN Announce Stuntman UK Tour

Award-winning Scottish company SUPERFAN are taking their high-octane smash hit Edinburgh  Fringe show Stuntman on tour, supported by Creative Scotland. The show uses a blend of dance,  theatre and circus, to present a hilarious, and tender ode to the relationship between  masculinity and male violence. The show creates cartoonish action-movie inspired fight scenes  using the performers lived experiences. With dates across the UK the show will have a limited run at HMP YOI Polmont, Scotland’s largest Young Offenders Institution which primarily houses  young males between the ages 18-21. 

This explosive highly acclaimed performance showcases a duet in which two stuntmen wrestle  with their relationship to violence on and off screen. Told through a series of satirical stunts with high impact,Stuntmanis not only inspired by classic and contemporary action movies such  asDie HardandJohn Wick, but also the performers’ personal experiences of their relationships  with violence and aggression.Through hard-hitting and entertaining theatrics, performers David  Banks (Fox) (Stuntman, Summerhall) and Sadiq Ali (The Chosen Haram,UK Tour;Tell Me,UK  Tour;The Unlikely Friendship of Featherboy and Tentacle Girl,Assembly Roxy) introduce an up close and personal look into their lives in an intensely physical, funny, and moving production. 

With striking, film set-inspired design from Rachel O’Neill (Tounge Twister, UK Tour;Through the  Shortbread Tin, Scotland Tour;The Show for Young Men,Edinburgh International Children’s  Festival), sound design from Richy Carey ({ stereo – type – music}, Art Night Dundee;wild tracks  radio, BBC Radio 6;Åčçëñtß, Glasgow Short Film Festival 2019) and lighting design from  Michaella Fee (Ginger,Tramway Glasgow;Childminder,Scotland Tour;Me and My Sister Tell  Each Other Everything,The Tron Glasgow).Stuntmanwill immerse the audiencein highly 

physical exaggerated fight sequences and challenge how we think about violence in the media  and questions the impact that action-hero role models have on men and boys.  

Director and Deviser ofStuntmanPete Lannon (Nosedive, The Barbican;Like Animals, UK Tour) comments,It’s great to be bringing Stuntman back to audiences around the UK, and to be  touring to a lot of places we haven’t taken work to before. This show is bursting with fun as well  as tackling some really complex themes, and every time we perform the show it feels like those  themes have just become more urgent and relevant. I especially can’t wait to bring the show to  my hometown of Berwick-upon-Tweed (the first time I’ve toured there) and to audiences in  HMPYOI Polmont. 

SUPERFAN are an award-winning Scottish company who devise theatre for adults and young people to take a playful approach to exploring the world using artforms that include  contemporary circus, dance-theatre, autobiographical performance and physical theatre. They  were 2021 Company-in-residence at the National Theatre of Scotland, and in 2019 won the  Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust award to create intergenerational contemporary circus  pieceNosedive. SUPERFAN are supported by Creative Scotland as part of the multi-year funding  portfolio. 

Previous praise forStuntman: 

This is the kind of theatre we need–★★★★The List 

A subtle and moving meditation on masculine violence–★★★★The Stage 

On the surface fun and silly, it has much greater depth …delivered with a (thoughtful) punch. A  small but perfectly formed piece of theatre.– Glasgow Theatre Blog 

Main Image: Courtesy of Brian Hartley

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