Cast announced for new LGBTQ+ drama Wreckage at Edinburgh Festival Fringe

A new LGBTQ+ drama is heading to Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August.

Harlow Playhouse produces Wreckage, an original drama that explores love and loss.

Written by Tom Ratcliffe and directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair MBE, the piece will be taking part in this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival performing at Venue 26, Summerhall from 3 – 28 August.

Wreckage is a one-act new original drama about love and loss. It tells the beautiful story of Sam, played by Tom Ratcliffe (Velvet, Sket, 5 Guys Chillin’) and his fiancé Noel played by West End star Michael Walters (Steve, The Inheritance, Death of a Salesman).

‘I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you.’

Sam and his fiancé Noel have been together for years. They have a house, a cat, and their whole lives ahead of them. But when a sudden and permanent distance crashes into their relationship, it falls on Sam to discover where their story goes from here.

Harlow Playhouse presents this new work by Tom Ratcliffe, directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair. Wreckage is a touching story about continuing bonds and love that only evolves, and never dies.

The production has lighting design by Rachel Sampley, sound design by Mwen and casting by Nadine Rennie.

Writer Tom Ratcliffe, said: “I’m incredibly excited to be working with Harlow Playhouse on a story which interrogates such universal themes of loss and love. Wreckage is a play about continuing bonds and explores how love and relationships continue to evolve after death.

“Wreckage is a story that I’m hoping will touch audience members and represents some of the disenfranchisement that LGBT+ people can experience during bereavement, but ultimately the play is a story of love and hope. Despite the subject matter Wreckage is ultimately a love story filled with sadness, joy, and everything in between”

Director, Rikki Beadle-Blair MBE, added: “It’s thrilling to work on a project that demands this level of romanticism. The design, the sound, the lighting, and performances all channelled into manifesting this extraordinarily scripted portrait of Love. All the heart stopping moments and all the awkwardness, humour, pain, sexiness, and passion of Love Love Love.”

For tickets and more information, visit festival.summerhall.co.uk/events/wreckage/