REVIEW: Sitting, Gilded Balloon Teviot, Edinburgh Fringe ✭✭✭✭
Mark Ludmon reviews Katherine Parkinson’s debut play Sitting at Gilded Balloon Teviot at Edinburgh Fringe
James Alexandrou
REVIEW: Europe After The Rain, Mercury Theatre Colchester ✭✭✭✭
Paul T Davies reviews Oliver Bennett’s play Europe After The Rain winner of the Mercury Playwriting Prize 2017 now playing at the Mercury Theatre Colchester.
PREVIEW: Europe After The Rain At The Mercury Theatre Colchester
Paul T Davies takes a look at Oliver Bennett’s Europe After The Rain and talks to the cast who are now in rehearsals ahead of a season at the Mercury Theatre Colchester. I’ll admit to a “humble brag” regarding Oliver Bennett’s surreal, funny and disturbing new play. I was on the reading panel for the Mercury Theatre Playwriting Prize 2017, and, at the second round, I championed Europe After The Rain. In fact, I confidently said, “This is the winner”, one of the few occasions in which I felt I might know anything about plays. It did indeed win, and now the Mercury are about to stage Oliver’s vision, and a wider audience will hear his unique voice. I caught up with cast, James Alexandrou (Will), Simon Haines (Max), Natasha Kafka (Marta) and Anna Koval (Yana) and director Cara Nolan during rehearsals. The play imagines a near future where the … Read more
Cast Announced For World Premiere Of Europe After The Rain
The Mercury Theatre Colchester has announced the full cast for the World Premiere of Oliver Bennett’s new play Europe After The Rain.
REVIEW: The Knowledge, Charing Cross Theatre ✭✭✭
With its tidy ending and compact narrative, The Knowledge is satisfying enough, but capable of so much more than is ever delivered.
Casting announced for stage adaptation of The Knowledge
The cast has been announced for the world premiere of a new stage adaptation of Jack Rosenthal’s classic British film, The Knowledge. Steven Pacey, Celine Abrahams, James Alexandrou, Jenna Augen, Louise Callaghan, Ben Caplan, Michael Chance, Alice Felgate and Fabien Frankel have joined the show which runs at Charing Cross Theatre from 4 September to 11 November. It will be directed by Maureen Lipman who not only played one of the lead roles in the film but is also the widow of Jack Rosenthal. It has been adapted for the stage by Simon Block. The 1979 movie, which also starred Nigel Hawthorne, follows the hilarious struggles of four Londoners as they attempt to better themselves by attempting the fearsome “Knowledge” – the process of becoming a London black cab taxi driver. Standing between them and the coveted Green Badge is the eccentric Mr Burgess, the examiner, also known as “The Vampire”, … Read more
