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.
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.
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
The Mercury Theatre Colchester has announced the full cast for the World Premiere of Oliver Bennett’s new play Europe After The Rain.
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