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A Royal Court Theatre and Fuel co-production The Victorian in the Wall By Will Adamsdale With additional material from Jason Barnett, Chris Branch, Matthew Steer, and Melanie Wilson Co-directed by Will Adamsdale and Lyndsey Turner The Victorian in the Wall is a comedy with songs at the Royal Court Theatre in London from 11 May-8 June 2013. There is a sign interpreted performance on the matinee performance of 1st June and a captioned performance on the evening of the 5th June. You can get your tickets online on www.royalcourttheatre.com. A work shy writer, Guy - who's last real contribution to literature was an award-winning short story 14 years ago - lives with his long-suffering girlfriend, Fi, in an increasingly gentrified part of London. They seem to have it all and they do love each other, but there's something missing. There's just no forward movement. They can't figure out what step to take next -- marriage, baby...home improvement! That's it, they'll get a knock-through. But when Fi is called away on urgent third-sector business just the building work is about to begin, Guy has to step up. Which he does. Sort of. Until the discovery of a Victorian man, Mr Elms, in the wall. The erudite builder Rob has seen this before, he's probably a ghost confused by the Wi-Fi as he's passing through. For Guy however, the arrival of this strange visitor is the perfect distraction from finishing the CBeebies script that his producer Bex is in desperate need of. With no memory of how he got in the wall in the first place, or why he's there, or even how long it's been, Mr Elms cautiously settles in to 21st century life - box sets of 'The Wire', working the Gaggia coffee maker and dealing with the boisterous washing machine from two doors down - whilst having the occasional fleeting flashback of his Victorian existence. He lived in this very flat. Underneath the captivating Lou Porter, the biggest musical hall star of the day. And is that a hint of a love story? But no sooner has Guy become immersed in the Victorian era, he is dumped right back into his own reality as Elms's memory is interrupted by a phone call from the increasingly despairing producer Bex. Can this fascinating visitor unlock Guy's hopeless career? His flagging relationship with Fi? A story buried in these walls for over a century? It's doubtful. Maybe. Yes. With the building work coming on apace, and a Skype call with Fi fast approaching so she can see the flat's transformation for herself, all Guy has to do is crack on with the script, keep out of Rob the builder's way, and not get side-tracked. Simple. But with Elms taking Guy on a trip to the Victorian music hall, nosy-neighbour Dan wanting a word about the foundations, and the noisy fridge constantly sounding like it is saying something, Guy's focus is all over place. Then the doorbell rings. And nobody, not even Rob, could foresee the impact this latest visitor would have on Guy and Fi's world. The Victorian in the Wall is a surreal, fantastical and joyful comedy with songs that explores relationships, 21st century ennui and middle-class angst.

Fuel presents Uninvited Guests' Make Better Please in collaboration with Lewis Gibson 8 May, ARC, Stockton on Tees Buy tickets: http://www.arconline.co.uk/whats-on/drama-and-spoken-word/make-better-please "Elegant and visceral, not to mention fearless, hilarious, totally horrifying and immensely uplifting." Carousel of Fantasies Bring us the troubles of the world, this city's crises and the hope in your hearts. In these times of crisis we make a collective ministry with you, our society of friends. Possessed by the spirits of corporate fat cats, cabinet ministers and media tycoons, we invoke the demons of the day, in order to banish them forever. Each show will draw on the day's news and will be about whatever matters to you. We'll speak the unspeakable and do the unthinkable for you. uninvitedguests.net @UGuests #makebetterplease Commissioned and developed by Theatre Bristol, Bristol Old Vic and BAC. Funded by Arts Council England. Developed with the support of Beaford Arts.

Here at Fuel, we want to make work for everyone, and we have been working hard to make work for audiences with accessibility requirements. We've produced British Sign Language interpreted performances of productions, we've made large print versions of our season brochures and subtitled our very first film, Kursk, for BBC's The Space. In 2012 we made our first foray into making work accessible for blind or vision impaired audiences with an Audio Described performance of Sound&Fury's Going Dark at the Young Vic in London, with an accompanying Touch Tour of the set and performance space. In our January-June 2013 season we're working with Fevered Sleep to make a captioned show and an audio described show for their installation and performance Above Me The Wide Blue Sky at the Young Vic in March, and with Will Adamsdale to make a sign interpreted show and captioned show for his new show The Victorian in the Wall at the Royal Court. We want to make the shows as enriching an experience for a disabled audience member as it is for a hearing or sighted audience member andwe want to create accessible routes in that aren't just bolt-ons to the show, but are woven in and in sympathy with the style of the entire piece. To find out more about our accessible work and upcoming shows, visit: www.fueltheatre.com/access