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Darkman Productions will be staging Richard Parker once again |
Cardiff Theatre company present their Hollywood Fringe Festival award-winning play and its brand new sequel at Chapter this July.Darkman Productions, who won Best International Show at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in 2012 for their production Richard Parker, will be staging the play once again at Chapter on Fri 26 & Saturday 27 July. This will be as part of a double bill with the sequel, Robert Golding, which will premier on Wednesday 24 & Thursday 25 July, before heading to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August. The co-incidence-inspired dark comedy, Richard Parker was originally developed with CwmniTheatr 3D Theatre Company in 2008. It has since toured Wales, the UK, enjoyed a run at the Edinburgh Festival in 2011 and a run at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in 2012, ending the year voted as one of the top ten theatre shows in Los Angeles in 2012 by ‘The Huffington Post’. Now audiences who missed it the first time around can now see the hour long award-winning production again before seeing its sequel, Robert Golding. Written by Cardiff based writer, Owen Thomas, Richard Parker is a play that deftly explores the intriguing intersection of fate and coincidence, when two men travelling on a boat find themselves thrown together. As time passes and the conversation develops, they soon find out they are irrevocably linked. Over the course of the play, the two actors (played by Alistair Sill and Gareth Bale) outline their contrasting world views and find themselves each having to defend their viewpoint until the play builds to its unexpectedly shattering conculsion. The follow up play to Richard Parker, Robert Golding, is a tale of conspiracies and shadows, where nothing is as it seems. A married couple celebrating on the eve of the opening of their new resturant welcome a guest to their table who turns their lives upside down. Sara Lloyd Gregory (who in is the new Hinterland series but has also been in Tess of the D’Urbevilles, Torchwood, Being Human, Doctors, Belonging and S4C’s Blodua, Con Passionate, Y Pris) joins Gareth John Bale (Black Rat productions of Neville’s Island, Up ‘n’ Under, Bouncers, Oedipus; Wales Theatre Company’s Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and BBC’s Wales’s High Hopes, Indian Doctor and S4C’s Pobol Y Cwm, Y Pris) and Alastair Sill (Little White Lies, BBC Wales’s Torchwood and shows with Theatr Iolo and Theatre Gwent) in the dark comedy sequel that will premier in Chapter. Writer Owen Thomas originally came up with the idea of Richard Parker after he discovered that Richard Parker is the name of several people in real life and fiction who, once shipwrecked, became cannibalised by their fellow survivors. In Owen’s new dark comedy, Robert Golding, the sequel looks at conspiracies and hidden secrets. Owen said: “A sequel seemed to naturally follow on from Richard Parker. We were thrilled with the feedback and reviews from audiences and theatre critics alike and Robert Golding will have that extra dimension to it – a new character in the form of Sara Lloyd Gregory.It is also important that the piece stands alone, with the need to have seen Richard Parker not acting as a barrier to enjoying the new play. I’ve known both Alastair and Gareth for many years. In some ways I write with them in mind and now with the new female character this will certainly add another twist in the tale.” Director of both plays, is Gareth John Bale who is also in the play as well. Gareth said: “I’m thrilled to be working on the sequel with Owen. Its going to be a challenge performing two plays in Cardiff but we’ve done Richard Parker so many times now it will easily come back to us and we are really excited about seeing how audiences will respond to the sequel in Cardiff, where it first started, before it goes on tour to Edinburgh.” Both Richard Parker and Robert Golding will be performed at Chapter Arts Centre. Robert Golding will be performed on Wednesday 24 & Thursday 27 July, 8pm. If you wanted to see Richard Parker again you can watch the show as a double bill on Friday 26 & Saturday 27 July with Richard Parker at 7pm and then Robert Golding at 9pm. Tickets for one show is £8 or £12 for two. Tickets are available from Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff on 029 2030 4400 or www.chapter.org. |
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