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Posted: Wed., Mar. 26, 2008, 6:00pm PT

Brits Off Broadway unveils lineup

Annual festival offers 'Yellow Moon,' 'Blink'

A new musical and three Scottish plays -- two by the same scribe -- are among the offerings of this year’s Brits Off Broadway, the annual fest that brings unconventional U.K. legit across the pond.

Fest of eight shows runs April 23-June 29 at Off Broadway’s 59E59 Theaters. Lineup includes the following:

  • “Yellow Moon (The Ballad of Leila and Lee),” from TAG Citizens Theater in Glasgow, is billed as a modern-day “Bonnie and Clyde” tale. Play is the first of two offerings from Scottish scribe David Greig (“The American Pilot”).

  • Greig’s “Damascus” centers on an English language textbook salesman in the titular city. Edinburgh’s Traverse Theater produces.

  • Musical offering “The Hired Man” concerns a young married couple whose rural life in the early 20th century is threatened by an imminent world war. Nottingham’s New Perspectives Theater Company produces the tuner with songs by Howard Goodall and book by Melvyn Bragg.

  • Torben Betts’ “The Unconquered,” produced by Edinburgh’s Stellar Quines Theater Company, is about a young girl whose anti-establishment stance gets her into trouble when a revolution breaks out.

  • “Artefacts,” by Mike Bartlett and produced by nabokov and the Bush Theater, concerns a 16-year-old girl’s attempts to get to know her Iraqi father when he appears suddenly with a stolen antique.

  • Ian Rowland’s “Blink” is a look at secrets in a small Welsh community, in a production from F.A.B. Theater in Cardiff, Wales.

  • “Vincent River,” the latest play by Philip Ridley (“The Pitchfork Disney”), follows a woman visited by a teen who may be connected to the death of her son. Old Vic Prods. produces.

  • Samuel Adamson’s “Some Kind of Bliss,” produced by London’s Trafalgar Studios, is a comedy about a woman’s misadventures on her way to interview Brit pop star Lulu for a tabloid supplement.




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