Blue/Orange

Infobox Play
name = Blue/Orange


image_size = 160px
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writer = Joe Penhall
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genre = Comedy
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setting = a London psychiatric hospital
premiere = April 2000
place = Cottesloe Theatre
London
orig_lang = English
iobdb_id = 2245

"Blue/Orange" is a play by written by English dramatist, Joe Penhall. A sardonically comic piece which touches on race, mental illness, and 21st century British life, it premiered at the Cottesloe Theatre in April 2000, starring Bill Nighy, Andrew Lincoln and Chiwetel Ejiofor. It went to London's West End in 2001.

In 2008, Plain Clothes Theatre Productions toured the show around the South-West. Venues included the Tobacco Factory, Bristol; Cheltenham Everyman and the Rondo Theatre, Bath.

Film adaption

In 2005, the play was adapted for a television film directed by Howard Davies for BBC with stars, Brian Cox, John Simm and Shaun Parkes. [cite web | author=Albert Foss | title= BBC Four Drama - Blue/Orange | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/cinema/features/blue-orange.shtml | publisher=BBC Four | date=8 August 2006 | accessdate=2008-09-26]

Awards and nominations

* 2000 Evening Standard Award
* 2000 London Critics' Circle Theatre Award
* 2001 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play

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