UK's HighTide Festival to Include Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs

The UK's sixth annual HighTide Festival, to be held in Halesworth in Suffolk from May 3-13,will feature 18 world and European premieres, including Mike Daisey's The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, performed by the author himself.
The season will also include four new American plays by Stella Fawn Ragsdale, Branden Jacob-Jenkins, Mona Mansour and Laura Marks (all produced in collaboration with the Public Theater Emerging Writers Group), and Ella Hickson's new play Boys, co-produced with Southampton's Nuffield Theatre and Headlong Theatre.
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, written and performed by Mike Daisey and directed by Jean-Michele Gregory, illuminates how the late, former CEO of Apple and his obsessions shape our lives, while sharing stories of his own travels to China to investigate the factories where millions toil to make iPhones, iPods and iPads.
Ella Hickson's Boys will receive its world premiere, directed by Headlong associate director Robert Icke in a HighTide Festival Theatre /Nuffield Theatre Southampton /Headlong Production. "It's finals day for the Class of 2011. Benny, Mack, Timp and Cam are due out of their five bedroom flat tomorrow morning; five bedrooms, five chairs, four boys - and one hell of a party. Stepping into a world that doesn’t want them, these boys start to wonder whether there's any point in getting any older," according to press notes. After HighTide, it will tour to Southampton (May 16-26) and London's Soho Theatre (May 30-June 16).