Encore Drama is a non-profit making company based in Leeds, England, dedicated to encouraging playwrights and actors. It consists of:

• Encore Theatre - producing new live theatre

• Encore Radio - producing radio plays and readings.

Encore Drama's first 2012 production is Jo's War, the winning play of the first Ronald Duncan Annual Playwriting Competition.

JO'S WAR by Lucy Bell

Steve’s gone to war and Jo’s gone to pieces.

Steve is in Afghanistan fighting for Queen and Country leaving his girl-friend, Jo, counting the days till his return. But while Steve dodges IED’s, Jo is left to deal with her own unexploded device: her future mother in law!

Secrets and lies detonate in this gripping, darkly funny new play. Encore Drama’s life-affirming production of Jo’s War lifts the lid on the impact of deployment on an unseen army of wives and girl-friends.

“Outstanding work” - Nell Leyshon, award-winning dramatist

“Poignant and authentic” - Jemma Kennedy, Pearson Playwright at the National Theatre  

• LEEDS - Friday 27th and Saturday 28th January 2012, 7.45pm. Upstairs at The Carriageworks, The Electric Press, 3 Millennium Square, Leeds, LS2 3AD. Tickets £10/£8. Box Office 0113-224 3801 Poster... www.carriageworkstheatre.org.uk

• IIKLEY -  Friday 17th and Saturday 18th February 2012, 7.30pm Ilkley Playhouse, Weston Road, Ilkley, LS29 8DW. Tickets £8.50/£7.50 Box Office 01943-609 539

• RICHMOND - Friday 24th February 2012, 7.30pm. The Georgian Theatre Royal, Victoria Road, Richmond, North Yorkshire, DL10 4DW. Tickets £7 - £20. Box Office 01748-825 252 www.georgiantheatreroyal.co.uk

• PORTSEA - Saturday 3rd March 2012 7.30pm. The Groundlings Theatre, 42 Kent Street, Portsea, Portsmouth, P01 3BS. Tickets £10/£8.50 Box Office 02392-737 370 www.groundlings.co.uk

• LONDON, Islington - Tuesday 20th - Saturday 24th March 2012, 7.00pm Saturday Matinee 3.00pm Hen and Chickens Theatre, 109 St Pauls Road, London, N12 2NA. Tickets £11.50 from Unrestricted View on 0207-704 2001

Generously supported by the Ronald Duncan Literary Foundation