The Sad Club by Luke Barnes & music by Adam Pleeth

It’s a collection of monologues, songs and duologues from all over time and space exploring what about living in this world stops us from being happy and how we might go about tackling those problems.

Luke Barnes is an award-winning writer. Credits include: Freedom Project (Leeds Playhouse), All We
Ever Wanted Was Everything (Bush Theatre & Paines Plough with Middle Child), No One Will Tell Me
When To Start A Revolution (Hampstead Theatre), Chapel Street (Bush Theatre), Bottleneck (Soho
Theatre with HighTide), The Jumper Factory (Young Vic, HOME, and Bristol Old Vic), Lost Boys (Unity
with National Youth Theatre), Cinderella – A Wicked Mother F*cker of a Night Out (James Seabright
& Not Too Tame), Katie Johnstone (The Orange Tree), The Saints (Nuffield Theatres, Southampton),
Eistedfodd (HighTide), There Should Be Unicorns (London International Festival with Middle Child), Ten
Storey Love Song (Hull Truck with Middle Child), Weekend Rockstars (Hull Truck with Middle Child), A
Wondrous Place (Manchester Royal Exchange/ Northern Stage/Unity/ Crucible, Sheffield), The Class
(The Unicorn with NYT), and Loki and Betty (Almeida Theatre). TV; Minted In Manchester (Original
Single for Channel 4).

Adam Pleeth is a composer and musician who has worked across plays, musicals and dance. As a
composer, his works include The Elephantom (National Theatre & West End); The Sad Club (National
Theatre Connections); James and the Giant Peach (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Pitcarn
(Shakespeare’s Globe & Chichester Festival Theatre); This May Hurt a Bit (Out of Joint); Wolves in the
Walls and Red Riding Hood and the Wolf (Little Angel Theatre); Laika (Unicorn Theatre); The Hartlepool
Monkey (Gyre & Gimble, UK tour); Ballad of the Burning Star and Juana in a Million (Theatre Ad
Infinitum); Caucasian Chalk Circle (National Youth Theatre of Wales); The Adventures of Curious
Ganz (Silent Tide/Little Angel Theatre) and Time Stands Still When I Think of You (The Place).

Part of National Theatre Connections, performed by Stratford School Academy