Acclaimed musical Islander, winner of Musical Theatre Review’s Best Musical Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019, is heading Off-Broadway, running at the new PLAYHOUSE 46 at St. Luke’s from 14 April 2022 (opening night is 21 August).
Islander transferred from Edinburgh to London’s Southwark Playhouse and a cast recording, Radio 4 adaptation and filmed version followed. The New York production will feature the show’s original two-hander cast, Kirsty Findlay and Bethany Tennick.
Conceived and directed by Amy Draper, Islander has a book by Stewart Melton and music and lyrics by Finn Anderson. Lighting design is by Simon Wilkinson and costume design by Hahnji Jang.
There is a girl. She stares out to sea and dreams of a new life beyond her lonely island. Myth and reality collide when the tide washes a mysterious stranger onto her beach.
Islander is intimately staged with a contemporary Scottish folk-inspired score and epic storytelling.
Kirsty Findlay (Olivier Award nominated) and Bethany Tennick (The Stage nominee for Best Performer in a Musical) create a world of characters while live-mixing and layering their voices, harnessing looping technology to create an astonishing soundscape.
Reviewing Islander in 2019, Chris Grady wrote: “I sense this will have a global life and it is most fitting to be a piece of musical theatre celebrated in the Made in Scotland programme.”
Islander will be the first production to play in the newly designed PLAYHOUSE 46 at St Luke’s. The theatre has been renovated and is a bright new Off-Broadway gem in the middle of the Broadway/Times Square area with location right on 46th Street’s Restaurant Row.
The musical was originally produced in the UK by Helen Milne Productions in association with Mull Theatre and the support of Creative Scotland. In New York, the producers are Molly Morris, Helen Milne, Martin Platt (for Bunce and Spider LLC) and James Simon.
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