A Team - The Musical

In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade into the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem...If no-one else can help...And if you can find them…Maybe you could hire the A-Team….

Making its world wide premiere at the Edinburgh Festival ‘A Team – The Musical’ explodes onto the stage at the Gilded Balloon for the entire month of August. Written by Gareth Kane and directed by Joss Bennathan, this is a must see show.

Fans of the A-Team can expect all the elements of the TV show - lots of action and adventure with the added bonus of songs (Music by Jethro Linley) and lots more laughter. Welcome back Hannibal, Face, Murdock and BA Baracus!

In the small town of Hill-Rock Tawnia Roberts is being pressurised by the Jacksons to pay protection money or face ruin. There is no alternative but to hire the best in the business – the A Team. With Colonel Decker on their tail, the team are sent in to defeat the Jacksons and make Hill-Rock a safer place to live. The odds are against them. The Jacksons are heavily armed, someone has murdered Murdock’s invisible dog Billy, and BA “ain’t getting on no plane”. To make matters worse the A Team are then captured and locked away with no possible way of escaping….

Gareth Kane (Writer) - trained as an actor at Alra. He has worked as an actor in leading roles at The Globe Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Soho Theatre. In 2006 he co-founded one of the UK's leading improvised comedy groups, Scratch. In the same year he co-created ‘The Reduced Edinburgh Fringe Impro Show’ which has sold out at Edinburgh for three years and has toured the UK. He has appeared as a comedian on ITV2 at the Brit awards and on BBC1 on 'Call Me Graham Norton' and has recently finished filming his regular role as Dave in 'Ross Lees Ghoulies' for Nickelodeon. He makes his debut as a writer at the Edinburgh Festival this year with ‘A-Team the Musical’, in which he stars as John ‘Hannibal’ Smith.

Joss Bennathan (Director) - is Artistic Director of Present Moment, for whom he has directed ‘The Country Wife’ (Time Out critic’s choice) and ‘The Revenger's Tragedy’, both at the Bridewell, ‘The Alchemist’ (Top 5 critic’s choice Independent) at Riverside Studios and ‘Volpone’ at Wilton’s Music Hall. As assistant director, he worked on Neil Bartlett’s Olivier nominated production of ‘Pericles’ at the Lyric Hammersmith and with Jude Kelly on ‘Johnson Over Jordan’ at West Yorkshire Playhouse. He has directed award winning comedy duo, Laurence and Gus for two sell-out Edinburgh shows, ‘A History Of The World In Five and a Half Sketches’ and ‘Men In Love’, both of which transferred to Soho Theatre and have subsequently been adapted for Radio 4. Other comedy shows directed for Edinburgh and beyond include ‘Field Study’ (2007) and Miles Jupp’s ‘Lost and Lonely Rebels’ (2005). His sketches for ‘late’ on Radio 4 were performed by the likes of Paul Merton, Richard Wilson, Julian Clary, Meera Syal and Liz Smith.