The director Jeremy M Thomas of Down The Rabbit Hole and House of International Theatre have recently finished putting on a very successful run of Michael’s play ‘The Shy Manifesto’ in Copenhagen. The audience loved it and it won several 5 star reviews!
The Shy Manifesto’s Theo Ancient (Photo credit Anthony Hollis)
My new play The Shy Manifesto is to tour in early 2019, taking in 27 dates at 20 venues across the country.
It’s a bittersweet coming-of-age comedy drama for one actor about a teenage boy who is proud to be shy and thinks you should be too, because what this crazy world needs right now is a bit more self restraint. Callum is to address an audience of radical shy comrades and incite the meek to finally rise up and inherit the earth, but memories of the previous night’s drunken escapades at end-of-term party keep intruding and threaten to upend the fragile identity he has created for himself.
Performed by Theo Ancient and directed by Cat Robey, it’s produced by Joe C Brown and Anthony Hollis and opens at Live Theatre, Newcastle on the 29th of January before travelling to Greenwich Theatre, Theatr Clwyd, The Met Manchester, The Marlowe Canterbury, Portsmouth Guildhall and Harrogate Theatre, amongst many others.
Edit: The Shy Manifesto did go on tour in 2019 and was a big hit and it was a shame Michael was not able to see it. Here are photographs from the run as well as tweets and reviews:
The Shy Manifesto gang posing for a photo for Michael in the hospice.
