It’s 2009. We’re in the early years of a new recession, Gordon Brown is Prime Minister, climate change is still mostly discussed in future tense, and everyone is getting very anxious about something called “swine flu.” World leaders arrive in L’Aquila, Italy for the annual G8 summit, met by demonstrations from anti-capitalist protestors demanding a different, better, world. Kieran Hurley, 23 years old, leaves his flat in Glasgow and sticks out his thumb, to be there too. Read more …
Originally presented in 2009, the year the journey was made, Hitch was Hurley’s critically-acclaimed debut solo show. A coming-of-age road movie for the stage, it’s a story of a strangers and service stations, of the search for community, and of jaded youth seeking hope in a failing world. Now, 15 years after its premiere, Hurley returns to this play, older, and in a much-changed world, to ask what its spirit of political hope might mean to us now in an era like this one.
This work in progress performance will be a script-in-hand reading of the original play, with live music from Gav Prentice.
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh on Friday March 29, 2024. More info: www.traverse.co.uk
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