Award-winning writer Renny Krupinski, also well known as a fight director and stunt co-ordinator, returns to The Kings Arms in Salford with an Edinburgh Fringe preview of his new play The Alphabet Girl next Sunday and Monday, as part of Greater Manchester Fringe.
The Alphabet Girl is a one-woman show, starring Kaitlin Howard, 2014 Manchester Theatre Awards Best Fringe Performance winner and 2010 Dark Chat Best Actress nominee.
A predatory grannie, a good-at-parties mother, a shed-load of spineless male role-models and the anonymous here and now have all had a ravishing effect on The Alphabet Girl making her the modern woman she is. Uncompromising, she's looking for Mr Right, Mr Goodbar, Mr Wonderful. She just wants love and nothing will stop her getting it.
Renny won a Manchester Evening News Best Supporting Actor award as an actor at the Royal Exchange, Manchester and was nominated as The Stage’s Best Actor at the Edinburgh Festival. He won the Dark Chat Best Director award for his production of Bare and, as a writer, won a coveted Scotsman Fringe First and The Michael Elliott prize in The Mobil Playwriting Competition.
He said: “The Alphabet Girl is a one-woman show. I was asked to write a short monologue, and then saw the potential for a full play. Hopefully it’s funny, disturbing, intriguing and shocking. Set in the '80s and '90s and now, we see what seems like a normal family history turned on its head and inside out, with appalling consequences.”
Kaitlin is also experienced in physical theatre as she runs stage combat workshops at Z-arts in Manchester, worked with youth group Wild Things Drama on its production of Sweeney Todd and is working with Renny on Oldham Coliseum’s new season.