UK tour announced for award-winning Fringe hit SAP from Atticist and Ellie Keel Productions

Following a critically acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the award-winning SAP returns for an extensive UK tour, including runs at London’s Soho Theatre, Birmingham Rep, The  Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, and Theatre by the Lake in Keswick, with further venues to be  announced.  

From Atticist and Ellie Keel Productions, this hit play is a queer urban fable about bisexuality and what we allow people to believe, in a world where The Song of Achilles meets Killing Eve.  Drawing inspiration from the myth of ‘Daphne and Apollo’, SAP is a contemporary, fast-paced  thriller about passion, power, and photosynthesis.  

When a woman tells a lie to her girlfriend, a seed is planted that starts to grow in the darkness.  Now roots are cracking up through the pavement and branches are coming in at the windows,  and – as she starts to see things that no one else can – she becomes the focus of some seriously  unwanted attention.  

SAP is the transfixing debut play from Rafaella Marcus, directed by Offie-nominated Jessica  Lazar. It became an  audience favourite and met with an outstanding critical response at the Edinburgh Festival  Fringe, gaining an astonishing 21 four-and five-star reviews. SAP was also the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including The Stage Edinburgh Award (for Jessica Clark), the Summerhall Lustrum Award and the Soho Playhouse Medal of Excellence, and was nominated for an OffFest Award. 

Writer Rafaella Marcus said: “Seeing the reception to SAP's Edinburgh run was one of the  most moving experiences of my life, and I’m thrilled that we now get to bring the show to audiences across the UK. The opportunity to tour and share ideas nationally is an essential part  of our cultural lives and I’m grateful to every venue that has opened their space to this strange,  mythic play. I can’t wait to share the extraordinary talent of our cast and creative team in new theatres, with new people, and I hope anyone who needs to sit with the play’s story of liberation,  power, and transformation will be able to do so.”

The  production is designed by by Rūta Irbīte, with lighting by David Doyle, composition and sound by Tom Foskett-Barnes, and movement direction by Jennifer Fletcher.