FOLLOWING rave reviews and audience acclaim at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Graeae Theatre Company and Theatre Royal Plymouth co-production The Solid Life of Sugar Water will be returning and opening its UK tour in Plymouth before three weeks at the National Theatre London.

A tender, compelling and unsettling play, written by Jack Thorne, follows the journey of a young couple, Phil and Alice, as they attempt to reconnect with each other following a stillbirth.

The Solid Life of Sugar Water is a play about love, loss and recovery and will run at the Theatre Royal Plymouth from January 20-30.

Premiering at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the production picked up three five-star reviews and 15 four-star reviews from across the national press. It was also awarded the most accessible production at the fringe at the inaugural Euan’s Guide Awards.

Jack Thorne is an award-winning writer for stage, television and film. He recently adapted the cult novel and film Let the Right One In for stage, which played to sell-out audiences at the Royal Court, in London’s West End and in New York.

He is also the writer of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, opening in the West End in summer 2016.

He previously collaborated with Graeae on co-writing the radio adaptation of Hunchback. For television, his credits include Glue, Skins, Shameless, This is England and the recent BBC Three drama Don’t Take My Baby.

Arthur Hughes (Phil) and Genevieve Barr (Alice) will reprise the roles they created for the run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Arthur Hughes has acted in several productions for the Richard Burton Company and was a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company in 2013, receiving the Carleton Hobbs Award.

Genevieve Barr is best known for BBC One primetime drama The Silence for which she received BAFTA and International Emmy nominations for Best Actress. Additionally, she has appeared in Channel 4’s Shameless, also written by Jack Thorne.

The Solid Life of Sugar Water will include a creative combination of captioning and audio description at all performances.

Jack Thorne said: ‘I’ve loved working on this play. A brilliant director (Amit Sharma) and excellent cast, for an amazing company.

‘Sugar Water is a play about pain and hope. Or hope and pain. Or hopelessness. As a grieving couple tries to connect they reflect on their years together.’