'TOGETHER IN ELECTRIC DREAMS' by Daniel Thackeray

Event information

WEDNESDAY 1st JULY 2015, 8pm
Lass Productions & Scytheplays Ltd presents
'TOGETHER IN ELECTRIC DREAMS'
by Daniel Thackeray (based on an idea by Gareth Kavanagh)

When Alan Sugar dined with Sir Clive Sinclair...
... it was a dinner with only one winner.

From two of Manchester's leading fringe theatre companies, the acclaimed comedy-drama by Oldham writer Daniel Thackeray, inspired by a remarkable true story.

In 1983 computing pioneer Clive Sinclair was knighted for his services to the British electronics industry, but following a number of disastrous new products such as the infamous C5 electric car, by 1986 his company Sinclair Electronics was facing bankruptcy. Meanwhile the industry's new leading figure had arisen: a former East End trader named Alan Sugar, with his company Amstrad. The only hope for Sir Clive now is that he can negotiate a rescue deal with his arch-rival over dinner in Sugar's chosen venue - a Japanese karaoke restaurant.

Glowing with nostalgia for the music and technology of the 1980s, Together in Electric Dreams charts a comic and poignant encounter between two very different businessmen, as the gentlemanly Sir Clive must navigate the hostile waters of East End pragmatism and Eastern cuisine in a desperate bid to save his company.

Lass Productions in partnership with Scytheplays Ltd have made a name for themselves since 2011 producing quirky and original plays inspired by science, science fiction, classic television and comic books, such as 'The Ballad of Halo Jones', 'The Say Can Blues', 'Coronation St 1977', 'V for Vendetta' and 'Centurion'.

"Daniel Thackeray gives an uncanny performance as stern, polite Sinclair, while Matthew O'Neill portrays a charismatic Sugar... The dialogue is slick and quick. Altogether a lot of laughs and worth a trip down memory lane."
- Elaine O'Flynn, Manchester Evening News

"A charming portrayal of a business meeting that would forever change the dynamic of the British electronics industry, with themes still resonant today... Together in Electric Dreams will leave you with a song in your heart."
- The Fiction Stroker

"A brilliant sense of fun and intrigue"
- Tracey Lowe, www.thepublicreviews.com

"It's the little touches which make every Scytheplays production so special."
- Tracey-Anne Thompson, thegoodreview.com

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