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Supertramp, Sickert and Jack the Ripper
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Lewis Davies' new play Supertramp, Sickert and Jack the Ripper produced by Equinox Theatre previewed with a sell-out performance at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama - ahead of its run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival which starts this week.
Based on the meetings between W.H.Davies (author of Autobiography of a Super-Tramp) and the Camden Town painter Walter Sickert, the play is directed by Rebecca Gould and stars Chris Morgan and Richard Tunley.
1908. Camden Town. Dissolute Welsh poet W. H. Davies, new star of the arts world thanks to his Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, comes to Walter Sickert’s studio to have his portrait painted. A century later, Lewis Davies is writing a play based on these meetings. But despite the impatient entreaties of his actor friend Chris, life keeps getting in the way…
This new play from Lewis Davies, writer of Football (seen at Edinburgh 2004), Sex and Power at the Beau Rivage (Theatr Y Byd) and Spinning The Round Table (HiJinx) is a compelling exploration of poetry, murder, sex, adventure, and getting barred from pubs. The play runs at Venue 13, The Royal Mile, Edinburgh from the 6th to the 17th of August. |
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