Mayday Mayday
During the dying minutes of April 2004 as the town of Padstow Cornwall celebrated the coming of summer, Tristan Sturrock broke his neck falling off a wall. Paralysed in hospital and about to become a father for the first time, he was told he may never walk again. This incredible true story charts his journey from the first of May to his first step.
New York Reviews - St Ann's Warehouse May 2013
http://www.stannswarehouse.org/MaydayMayday
"Superb" (New York Post)
"Mayday Mayday illuminates vividly how resilient the mind and body can be when the spirit never flags" (New York Times)
"Artfully crafted...beautifully staged" (Huffington Post)
"Refreshingly human" (Entertainment Weekly)
"an intimate.. touching...deft work" (Time Out New York)
UK Reviews - 2011-12
(British Theatre Guide)
Winner- Fringe Review award for outstanding theatre Edinburgh 2012
"Sturrock brings 20 years of experience with Kneehigh Theatre to this personal testimony...a very skilled piece of story telling and physical theatre by a first class actor"
(Fringe review)
Bristol Evening Post
The Cornishman
The Good Review
2013 Tour Dates
- 16th April - 5th May 2013 -
St Anns Warehouse, New York
http://www.stannswarehouse.org/MaydayMayday - 23rd - 28th May 2013 -
Spoleto festival, Charleston, South Carolina
http://spoletousa.org/events/mayday-mayday
2012 Tour Dates
- Bristol Old Vic Theatre
- Bath Theatre Royal / Ustinov
- Battersea Arts Centre
- Acorn Arts Centre, Penzance
- Falmouth Arts Centre
- Salisbury Playhouse
- The Tolmen Centre, Cornwall
- The North Wall / Oxford
- Plymouth Theatre Royal / Drum
- Edinburgh Festival Pleasance King Dome
