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Cardiff’s pub theatre The Other Room and resident company difficult|stage offer an anarchic Christmas show |
This Christmas, Cardiff’s pub theatre The Other Room, located in Porter’s and winner of The Stage’s Fringe Theatre of the Year Award, welcome back resident company difficult|stage with an anarchic and hilarious festive show. A follow up to difficult|stage’s hit 2015 show Alix in Wundergarten, Looking Through Glass will run at The Other Room Tue 6 – Fri 23 December. Looking Through Glass re-visits the fated radio recording studio of Alix in Wundergarten, and the big guns have been called in, in the form of the notorious Alison. Writer and performer François Pandolfo explains: “Returning to our exploration of what it means to be a working actor and unapologetically presenting the warped sense of self and desperate need to project one’s worth onto those around us, Looking Through Glass embraces those moments of chaos that expose our ultimate fears; instances when our human fragility is revealed. This next installment of the notional ‘seasonal radio play’ is presented by our producing corporation in its brand-new broadcasting house. Join us in this modern radio studio setting to observe Alison’s unique process at work. But if everyone is looking through glass then who exactly is watching who? With Fabian out of the way and banished to a glass box (quite literally), Alison is back in control and is hell-bent on making last year’s failed attempt seem nothing but a dream. Our audience of interns are invited along for an ‘on the job’ workshop style interview as Alison is looking for a new assistant producer to replace Fabian. Nobody is off the hook and everybody has something to prove. Recording light on please for our new Christmas radio play but let’s hope Wonderland isn’t a modern day Macbeth curse and don’t forget that once we’re on air, radio silence is deadly…” Looking Through Glass will be directed by Matthew Blake, who has worked on a number of projects for pioneering theatre company Punchdrunk and in 2015 directed Beneath the Streets: Lost and Found, the collaboration between Hijinx and Punchdrunk’s community outreach programme Punchdrunk Enrichment. The Looking Through Glass company includes: Robert Bowman (Diary of a Madman, Sexual Perversity in Chicago), Eiry Hughes (Stella, Baker Boys), François Pandolfo (To Kill A Machine, The Terrible Things I’ve Done, Alix in Wundergarten) and Nicola Reynolds (Constellation Street, Ideal). Looking Through Glass is on at The Other Room Tue 6 – Fri 23 December and tickets are available now from www.otherroomtheatre.com. To keep updated on the show, you can follow the team on Twitter @TORtheatre / @difficultstage and Facebook www.facebook.com/otherroomtheatre |
| The Other Room web site: www.otherroomtheatre.com |
| Alice Baynham e-mail: alicebaynham@yahoo.co.uk / alice@otherroomtheatre.com |
Wednesday, November 16, 2016 |
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