Badapple reprises Amy Johnson play for 2018 tour

North Yorkshire's Badapple Theatre Company is celebrating twenty years on the road and, to mark the milestone, it is re-presenting the first show the company ever toured with. 'Amy Johnson’ will tour nationally from April to June, starting in Yorkshire.

Artistic Director Kate Bramley’s show follows the inspirational life of Hull aviatrix Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from the UK to Australia. During World War II she had a vital role as one of a team of female pilots working as auxiliary personnel and the play, which features a 2/3 replica bi-plane, explores Amy's final mysterious wartime journey whilst celebrating her pioneering career.

"I started out as a professional director and ‘Amy Johnson’ was the first full length script I wrote,” notes Bramley. “Seventeen plays later, I feel like I have developed my own distinct voice as writer and am excited to go back and re-visit this old story with the benefit of all those years of experience with a brand new adaptation. The plane is the same though!”

The 2/3 replica Gipsy Moth bi-plane built for the original show won the Glenn Willoughby design award and still has a central role in the drama. It was designed by set designer and air enthusiast Andy Newell, built by John Bramley and was donated to Sewerby Hall, Bridlington in the year 2000. It now resides permanently at the Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum which is loaning it back to the company for this anniversary tour. Expect a good dose of Badapple humour, as well as a poignant tribute to Hull's 'First Lady of the Air’.

Badapple Theatre Company is one of the most prolific and original rural touring companies in the UK. For the last twenty years, its mission has been to take product

ions to the smallest of rural venues, and in doing so find the best of new theatre in the most unexpected of places.

Starring Sarah Raine and Frances Tither with original songs and music by Jez Lowe.

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