INK, by James Graham - Harrogate Theatre

Harrogate Dramatic Society presents INK, by James Graham

It’s 1969 London and Rupert Murdoch wants to take on the British establishment. He buys the failing Sun newspaper and with his disaffected but brilliant and ruthless editor Larry Lamb, plans to make a new kind of paper, one that gives people what they want - one that will knock the Daily Mirror off its perch. Seriously under-resourced, with just a small disparate band of hacks and against all the odds The Sun rapidly becomes Britain’s best selling newspaper. But giving the people what they want comes at a cost.

As Murdoch tells his editor “I want something loud” and that’s just what we get. Fast paced and funny, INK is the foundation story of the modern Sun newspaper, written by our foremost ‘state of the nation’ playwright and screen writer James Graham (This House, Dear England, Sherwood, Quiz, Brexit: The Uncivil War).

Originally produced on Broadway by the Manhattan Theatre Club, Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director, Barry Gove, Executive Director, Denise Wood, Executive Director and Sonia Friedman Productions with funds provided by The Roy Cockrum Foundation on April 24, 2019.

INK was originally commissioned by the Almeida Theatre and first presented at the Almeida Theatre, London on 27 June 2017. It then transferred to the Duke of York’s Theatre in the West End of London, where it was produced by Sonia Friedman Productions and the Almeida Theatre.

This amateur production of INK is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk