Ferno gets starring role in new Ayckbourn play

Ferno has made its debut on the stage in Sir Alan Ayckbourn's 77th play Arrivals & Departures which has been lauded as "his new masterpiece".
Sue Volans from the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Sir Alan’s home for most of his career, recently got in touch with us to ask if we could loan her one of our Pegasus stretchers for a four month tour of the play across the UK.
Sir Alan, one of the UK's greatest living playwrights, wrote Arrivals & Departures as a dark comedy about a Yorkshire traffic warden, played by Kim Wall, and troubled female army officer, played by Elizabeth Boag.
In The Times, Libby Purves wrote that it was "ambitious, inventive, mischievously funny, but emotionally serious with a shocking, ironic and redemptive final twist".
After the opening night, The Observer's critic Clare Brennan tweeted: "How good is @ayckbourn's new play for @thesjt in Scarborough? In loo, post show, 2 teenage girls repairing teartracks in makeup. THAT good."
Sue (who sent us the picture above – there are more on our Facebook page here) told us: “The stretcher has played it's part superbly during this part of the tour. We are so grateful for the use of it.
“Again thank you Ferno for lending us the stretcher. It is only due to the generosity of companies like yourselves that we are able to survive and we are extremely grateful.”