Soho Theatre Presents Someone Else's Shoes

ETT presents Someone Else's Shoes, a comedy by Drew Pautz. Directed by Artistic Director Stephen Unwin, the production builds on ETT's reputation for producing successful new plays alongside outstanding productions of the classics.

Set in a society where everything can be bought and sold - and even creativity and love are commodities - it asks how far capitalism can go and if there's anything that can't be owned. Someone Else's Shoes is a fast-paced, multi-layered comedy for the 21st century. Globalisation and mass branding are thrust into the spotlight as five very different people find their lives suddenly linked.

Mercury Shoes, the Amedeo family business, has been sold to a huge multi-national corporation. Adam Amedeo, the company's marketing guru, has disappeared to Canada to fulfil his dreams of making it as an art collector. His mission brings him to Nadine, a conceptual artist whose work he buys in its entirety. Meanwhile, Nadine's unambitious ex-boyfriend Jed is working his way up on Mercury's shop floor - until militant left-wing activist Mary embroils him in her mission to bring Mercury (and the capitalist world around it) crashing to the ground.

Drew Pautz was born and educated in Canada and is a writer, lighting designer and director. He is part of London-based collective The Work, founded in 2003 to collaboratively create new work and to explore new methods and means of performance. Other The Work practitioners include Someone Else's Shoes' designer Anna Fleischle and director Matthew Dunster.

Stephen Unwin is best known for his acclaimed productions of classic plays. Most recent successes include tours of Mother Courage and her Children, The Old Country and Hamlet (both also in the West End).

Stephen founded ETT in 1993 with the aim of creating outstanding theatre and touring it to the widest possible audience. In addition to a commitment to the classics, the company has been successful with its world premieres, including Rupert Street Lonely Heart's Club and Hushabye Mountain by Jonathan Harvey, The York Realist by Peter Gill and Honeymoon Suite by Richard Bean.

The cast is Emily Bruni, Patrick Drury, Denise Gough, Jonjo O'Neill and Steven Pacey. Design is by Anna Fleischle (recent credits include Love and Money at the Young Vic), with lighting by Malcolm Rippeth and music is by Olly Fox.

The performances will take place from 8 March to 7 April at 7.30pm. Tickets are 8-10 March £10; 12-31 March £15/£12.50; 2-7 April £20/£15 matinees £7.50. -- www.sohotheatre.com