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# Fringe PREVIEW: James Dean Is Dead! (Long Live James Dean)
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/fringe-preview-james-dean-is-dead-long-live-james-dean/
- Published: 2018-05-08T20:41:42.000Z
- Updated: 2018-05-08T20:41:42.000Z
- Description: James Dean Is Dead! (Long Live James Dean) is a timely look at how the film industry uses sex, drugs and power to make and break careers. AS James Dean, Hollywood’s hottest star, steps out of his crashed car he looks back on his short Iconic life. A no-holes-barred one-man show examining Hollywood’s
- Author: Besi

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## James Dean Is Dead! (Long Live James Dean) is a timely look at how the film industry uses sex, drugs and power to make and break careers.

**AS James Dean**, Hollywood’s hottest star, steps out of his crashed car he looks back on his short Iconic life. A no-holes-barred one-man show examining Hollywood’s value system and its effect.

Starring **Kit Edwards** and directed by **Peter Darney**, the play was written by **Jackie Skarvellis** who passed away in 2016\. Jackie left money to help fund this production.

**Director Peter Darney, said:** *“When I was asked by my publisher to take this on, I of course knew of James Dean, and thought of him as a beautiful and Iconic star whose life ended tragically. What I hadn’t realised was how tragic his life was – the exploitations and manipulations he endured as given for an actor working in Hollywood, and how closely that resonates with the Harvey Weinstein stories of today, making it the right time to once again tell his Story.”*

James Dean Is Dead! (Long Live James Dean) will be performed at Brighton Fringe, The Warren, Theatre Box, from May 24-27, Kings Head Theatre, Islington from July 26-29 and in C Venues at the Edinburgh International Festival, from August, 19-29 where *Em-Lou Productions* were the winners of the 2017 inaugural Scottish Sun best LGBT Production Award.

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**Event:** Em-Lou Productions James Dean Is Dead! (Long Live James Dean)

**Where:** The Warren, Theatre Box, St Peters Church, Brighton: Brighton Fringe

**When:** May 24 – 27, 7pm – May 27 – 28 2.30pm

**Cost:** £9.50 – £11

**To book tickets online, [click here:](https://www.brightonfringe.org/whats-on/james-dean-is-dead-long-live-james-dean-123145/?ref=scenemag.co.uk)**

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**The Kings Head Theatre, Islington, London**

July 26 – 28: 8:45pm + July Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 – Matinees at 16:45pm

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**Edinburgh Festival, C Venues Aquila, Royal Mile, Edinburgh**

July 19-29 time tbc