Remembrance Day by Aleksey Scherbak, translated by Rory Mullarkey, sold out towards the end of its highly successful run at the Royal Court Theatre. The play was part of the International Playwrights Season and was supported by the Genesis Foundation who celebrate 15 years of pioneering international work with the Royal Court Theatre in 2011.

Following his success directing Martin McDonagh’s celebrated play The Beauty Queen of Leenane earlier this year, Young Vic Genesis Fellow Joe Hill-Gibbins has recently received critical acclaim for his revival of Tennessee Williams’ renowned play, The Glass Menagerie.

Francesco Forgione unlike his namesake St. Francis of Assisi, shunned merry company in his youth, moreover as a teenager he lived a very solitary life divided between his studies and the local church, where he was an altar boy.  Even at the tender age of five he had conceived the idea of joining a religious order.

The Full Programme for the Padre Pio Premieres on 3 June 2008 at Westminster Cathdreal in London was as follows.