Luke Wright will be appearing in his latest show, What I Learned From Johnny Bevan, which won two awards at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, in a three-week run starting in February at London’s Soho theatre - and launching a book of the play at the same time.

What I Learned from Johnny Bevan, which won the a Fringe First award for new writing and the Stage award for acting excellence at Edinburgh, is an hour-long narrative poem set in the 1990s and the present day, and is a story of “shattered friendship, class ceilings, and the hollow reality of the New Labour dream”.

Luke Wright talked about the play’s survey of the optimism and disillusion of the Blair years in an interview with Write Out Loud shortly after last year’s general election, and before Jeremy Corbyn took over as Labour leader, saying: “I think we’re really starting to see just how damaging Blairism was to the labour movement.” The Soho theatre run is from 22 February to 12 March, with publication of a book of the play by Penned in the Margins on 24 February. More details

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