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The Other Room continues Insomnia season with nuclear bombs and vampires |
Cardiff’s pub theatre The Other Room (recent winners of The Stage’s Fringe Theatre of the Year award and Best Production (English Language), Best Director, Best Actor (English Language), Best Playwright (English Language), in the Wales Theatre Awards) continues its game-changing Insomnia season with new play Sand by nick gill and the gothic St. Nicholas by Conor McPherson.Sand, a new play by nick gill, will be directed by Kate Wasserberg and runs from 16 - 25 February. When one woman collaborates in the development of a nuclear bomb, she becomes all things - every victim, every person in every possible time, even the explosion itself. As time and space fracture and the certainties of life fall away, a child is lost and civilisations fall, the mind corrodes and space expands. Kate comments: “This stunning piece of writing by one of the most startling new voices of the last decade premiered at the Royal Court in 2013 and left me speechless with its breathless fury and epic scale. This is a play about children and about bombs, about love and about murder, and as I continue to struggle with the violence in the world this brilliant articulation of the madness of war and the human frailty that leads to mass destruction gives me some hope that we will one day reach some level of understanding.” The woman will be played by Bafta Cymru Best Actress Sara Lloyd-Gregory (Alys, Hinterland, Contractions), in a last minute re-casting that will mean the first few performances will be script in hand. Kate again: “Sara is one of Wales’ great actors and we’re delighted she’s been able to step in at the last minute. Sara and I last worked together on Mike Bartlett’s Contractions and I’m really looking forward to get into the rehearsal room with her again. She’s sure to deliver an astonishing performance and I’m excited to share it with audiences.” Sand will be followed by St. Nicholas, by renowned Irish playwright Conor McPherson (1 – 11 March) and directed by Titas Halder (who directed the acclaimed Donmar Warehouse production of McPherson’s adaptation of The Dance of Death). St. Nicholas tells an extraordinary tale of booze, parties, and blood. This one-man play follows a theatre critic (played by Christian Patterson, who recently won Best Actor in the Welsh Theatre Awards for his performance in The Other Room’s inaugural production of Sarah Kane’s Blasted) used to spinning all manner of wild and outrageous stories. This one is different. Enchanted by a young actress, he is tempted into a world of candle-lit hedonism, darkness, and vampires. Standing on the brink of damnation, he must find a way to escape, to save the woman he desires, and redeem his soul. Kate again: “We're thrilled to reunite director Titas Halder with Conor McPherson's writing after their beautiful work together on The Dance of Death. St Nicholas is storytelling at its finest; witty, surprising, personal and frightening, and we're delighted to present one of the great modern writers here for the very first time. We're also extremely excited to welcome Christian Patterson back to The Other Room to perform this brilliant play.” Sand and St. Nicholas follow the acclaimed double bill of Play by Samuel Beckett and Silence by Harold Pinter, and the season will culminate with Constellation Street (11 – 30 April), a brand new play by Matthew Bulgo. The Insomnia season also revives The Other Room’s incredibly popular ‘scratch nights’ in a new slot called ‘Sunday Scratch’; ‘TOR Presents...’ talk back events and the continuation of the much loved Pay What You Can Previews. Each production in the season features a BSL interpreted performance. Tickets for The Other Room’s production of Sand (16 - 25 February) and St. Nicholas (1 - 11 March), are available now from www.otherroomtheatre.com. To keep updated on The Other Room, you can also follow the team on Twitter @TORtheatre and Facebook www.facebook.com/otherroomtheatre |
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Thursday, February 11, 2016 |
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