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Olivier Award winning play Blackbird to be performed at The Other Room |
Cardiff’s pub theatre The Other Room, located in Porter’s and winner of The Stage’s Fringe Theatre of the Year Award, continues its Autumn / Winter season with Blackbird by David Harrower, which won ‘Best New Play’ at the Olivier Awards in 2007 and runs Tue 25 October – Fri 4 November.Blackbird recently dazzled and shocked audiences on Broadway (where it starred Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams), and is brought to The Other Room in a brand new production from new company Those Two Imposters. When Una tracks down Ray in a nowhere town, recriminations and revelations fly in this lacerating and controversial story of betrayal, abandonment and lust. Una and Ray will be portrayed by Sophie Melville (Iphigenia in Splott) and Christian Patterson (St. Nicholas, Blasted, The Dying of Today, ITV’s Mr Selfridge), who are currently appearing together in Theatr Clwyd’s production of Insignificance. Blackbird will be directed by Those Two Impostors’ Artistic Director Rupert Hands who comments: “Blackbird sears itself into the brain of everyone who sees it. It is the perfect piece for the intense, immediate, almost claustrophobic space of The Other Room. To have two such phenomenal actors driving this play will make it an unmissable experience. I can’t wait to get it in front of the audience.” Blackbird is on at The Other Room 25 October - 4 November and tickets are available now from www.otherroomtheatre.com. To keep updated on the production, you can also follow Those Two Impostors and The Other Room on Twitter @TT_Impostors / @TORtheatre and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/thosetwoimpostors/ / www.facebook.com/otherroomtheatre Tue 25 October – Fri 4 November, 7.30pm Presented by Those Two Impostors at The Other Room Blackbird By David Harrower Directed by Rupert Hands The Other Room at Porter’s, Cardiff Tickets – www.otherroomtheatre.com Those Two Imposters Those Two Impostors is a new theatre company dedicated to productions of artistic excellence which engage directly with modern society and the human condition. Christian Patterson, actor Christian was born and raised in Swansea, and trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Christian is proud to be an associate of Theatr Clwyd where his theatre credits include: Insignificance, All My Sons, Under Milk Wood (National Tour), Aristocrats, Glengarry Glen Ross, As You Like It, Rape of the Fair Country, Hosts of Rebecca, Song of the Earth, Homefront Recall, The Mabinogion, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, Under Milk Wood, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Twelfth Night, Blue Remembered Hills, Equus, Afore Night Come and A Christmas Carol. Other theatre credits include: St Nicholas, Blasted, The Dying of Today (The Other Room), Pantos on Strike (Manchester Opera House/Regent Theatre, Stoke), Journey’s End (national tour/West End), Oliver! (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Shared Experience), Laurel & Hardy (Wolsey Theatre/tour), Guys and Dolls (National Tour), Under Milk Wood (Lancaster Dukes), Ying Tong (West Yorkshire Playhouse/New Ambassadors), The Gondoliers, The Merchant of Venice and The Water Babies (Chichester Festival Theatre), Lady Macbeth (Basingstoke Haymarket), The Oyster Catchers (Sherman Theatre), The Woman in Black, Neville’s Island and The Little Shop of Horrors (Torch Theatre), Two Weeks with the Queen and Guys and Dolls (Leicester Haymarket), Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! and Bedroom Farce (Chrysalis Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mappa Mundi), Twelfth Night (Wales Actors Company), Matilda and The Secret Garden (RSC/Aldwych Theatre), Macbeth (Albery Theatre) and Goon Bandage – An Evening with Harry Secombe (tour). TV/Film credits: Pride (Proud Productions), Mr Selfridge (ITV), Treflan (S4C), Holby City, Doctors, Outside the Rules, Score and Care (BBC), Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire (Comedy Central/BBC), Grafters (Granada), Malice in Wonderland (Future Films) and I Know You Know (Little Film Company). Sophie Melville, actor Sophie was born and raised in Swansea and graduated from RWCMD in 2013. Theatre: Insignificance (Theatr Clwyd) Iphigenia in Splott (Sherman Cymru, National Theatre and UK tour) Romeo and Juliet (Sherman Cymru) Under Milkwood (Theatr Clwyd UK Tour) The Shape of Things, Tis Pity she's a Whore and See How They Run (Theatre by the Lake) Radio: Early One Morning Diary of Samuel Pepys (BBC Radio 4) Iris Wildthyme Confessions of Dorian Gray (Big Finish Productions) TV/Film: The Missing 2 (BBC 1) Cupidity (London Film Festival) Telling Tales (BBC It's My Shout) The Other Room The Other Room at Porter’s is Cardiff’s pub theatre. It was founded by Artistic Director Kate Wasserberg and Executive Director Bizzy Day, in response to the exciting opportunity to develop an audience for drama in the heart of Cardiff. An intense, purpose-built space with 47 seats, The Other Room produces new work by Welsh and Wales-based artists and great modern plays and has fast established a reputation for quality and daring. The Other Room won Fringe Theatre of the Year at the 2016 Stage Awards and Best Production, Best Play, Best Director and Best Actor at the recent Welsh Theatre Awards for their opening season in 2015. |
| The Other Room web site: www.otherroomtheatre.com |
| Alice Baynham e-mail: alicebaynham@yahoo.co.uk |
Tuesday, October 11, 2016 |
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