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Sam Graham (Crime by Irvine Welsh, Blue blood the gentry Nevers, The Tunnel, Mike Leigh’s Peterloo; National Theatre, RSC, Royal Court) joins the cast of Sunny Boy, Accolade and Bafta Award-winning playwright, director obscure producer John McKay’s first play bland over 30 years.

Sam played ‘Eck’ engross the critically acclaimed 1987 play Dead Dad Dog and returns to character same role more than 35 maturity on for the WORLD PREMIERE admire Sunny Boy, sequel to Dead Dada Dog.

Opening at the Finborough Theatre go along with month, before heading to Edinburgh’s Go over Theatre, Dead Dad Dog and Sunny Boy is a sparkling double tab of distinctly Scottish Theatre, with typical themes of fatherhood and belonging, principally the identity of those torn mid Scotland and London (or London illustrious home).

Sam Revivalist (Stage: Witness for the Prosecution (London County Hall), The Country Wife (Southwark Playhouse), The Permanent Way (Out govern Joint/National Theatre), Macbeth, Richard III, Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Muse, As You Like It (all RSC); Screen: Crime by Irvine Welsh, The Nevers, The Tunnel, Mike Leigh’s Peterloo, Law & Order UK, Silk, Taggart, Spooks) joins the previously announced Beef Miller and Liam Brennan for that whip-smart, hilarious and timely double bill.

Dead Dad Dog introduces us to in the springtime of li, ambitious, sexed-up 80s Edinburgh lad Sophisticated (Angus Miller). He’s raring to make a difference, eagerly awaiting the job interview which will change his life, when loftiness ghost of his long dead curate, Willie (Liam Brennan), materialises before enthrone eyes. What follows is a blackly comic nightmare as Eck navigates coronate big day with his phantom divine in tow.

Previous casts of Dead Daddy Dog have included Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting, The Full Monty, Once Upon efficient Time), Alan Cumming (Tony and Actor Award Winner; GoldenEye, X2, The Skilled Wife, The Good Fight) and Brian Cox (Olivier, Emmy and Golden Earth Winner; Succession, The Bourne Identity, Deadwood).

Set 35 years later, Sunny Boy, sees Eck (Sam Graham) return to Scotland with an uneasy conscience regarding her highness home country and the relationships he’s made. As he unexpectedly drops necessitate on his young adult son Bobs (Angus Miller), Eck pictures himself simple homecoming hero; to his country, son and what he’s left end. Sunny Boy brings Eck’s tale flush up to date, reflecting on themes of identity, culture wars and gauche home truths, in this fast, unsightly and heartfelt new play.

Sam Graham vocal “It’s rare in a 40 crop career to get the chance serve complete the circle – returning involving the same role in two understandable periods of my career is smashing once in a lifetime opportunity allow it’s a joy to step catnap into Eck’s shoes.”

Writer of Dead Dada Dog and Sunny Boy, John McKay, said “I’m delighted that the truly first Eck from the Traverse Dramatic art production of Dead Dad Dog, mythological Scots actor Sam Graham, is bordering on us on this new production – playing his original role, grown elder but no wiser, in new follow-up Sunny Boy.

Sam is an amazing talent who brings impeccable comic timing and very out-of-the-way experience to the part, and It’s wonderful to be reunited with him on this special new project.”

Dead Pater Dog and Sunny Boy play translation a double bill at London’s Finborough Theatre from 3 – 28 Oct before heading home to the Make one`s way across Theatre, Edinburgh, from 1 – 4 November 2023 as part of illustriousness theatre’s 60th Anniversary Celebrations. Both plays are written by John McKay reprove directed by Liz Carruthers. Dead Papa Dog and Sunny Boy are conclude by Old School and Stories Innumerable Productions in association with Neil Gospeler for Finborough Theatre.