The Stage

Stage Award-winning Deep Cut makes London transfer

Published Thursday 12 February 2009 at 18:45 by Alistair Smith

Deep Cut, which won two Stage Awards for Acting Excellence at last year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, is to transfer to London’s Tricycle Theatre in March.

The Sherman Cymru production, which also picked up a Fringe First, Herald Angel and the Amnesty Freedom of Expression Award at the festival, will run from March 10-April 4.

Tricycle Theatre artistic director Nicholas Kent commented: “The Tricycle Theatre is delighted that we are premiering Deep Cut in London. The unanswered questions over the tragic deaths need a full public inquiry and this play forcibly makes that case. It is very much in the tradition of the political work that the Tricycle has espoused over the past 20 years.”

Deep Cut, written by Philip Ralph, uses original source material and first-hand testimonies of those closest to Private Cheryl James, from Llangollen, one of four young soldiers who died from gunshot wounds in unexplained circumstances between 1995 and 2002 at the Deepcut army barracks.

Although the Blake Review, an independent review of the deaths, concluded that James probably committed suicide, her family continue to fight for a full public inquiry to gain answers from the people responsible for their daughter’s care.

The rights to the play have now been optioned by Michael Winterbottom and Andrew Eaton’s company Revolution Films and a screenplay is currently in development.