SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO
Tuesday 20 – Saturday 24 March 2008
By David Mamet
Cast: Carl Prekopp, Liam McKenna, Lucy Briers, Jo Reil
Director: Martin Hutson
Designer: Signe Beckmann
Composer: Chris Warner
Lighting Designer: Henry King
Principal Sponsor: Godfrey Morgan Solicitors
Supported by The Garage
“This is work that tests an actor’s mettle, and everyone here comes up shining!...Don’t miss it.” Eastern Daily Press
“A fantastic production…The TR Actors Company is a brilliant idea and I look forward to your future productions.” Audience member
pool (no water)
Tuesday 16 – Saturday 20 September 2008
pool (no water)
By Mark Ravenhill
Cast: David Alderman, Viss Elliot Safavi, Romy Tennant, Joseph Wicks
Director: Holly Maples
Designer: Fabrice Serafino
Lighting Designer: Henry King
Principal Sponsor: Godfrey Morgan Solicitors
Sponsored by Models Direct
Supported by Arts Council England, Norfolk County Council, City College Norwich, The Garage
“It is clever writing interpreted and performed with precision…It will stay in the mind for a very long time.” Eastern Daily Press
“I hadn’t seen any of Mark Ravenhill’s work before and I found it a very powerful, if dark…piece of work…performed superbly.” Audience member
THE UGLY ONE
Tuesday 2 – Saturday 6 June 2009
THE UGLY ONE
By Marius von Mayenburg
Translated by Maja Zade
Cast: Nigel Hastings, Julia Marsen, David Lambert, Richard Pryal
Director: Hannah Eidinow
Designer: Richard Matthews
Lighting Designer: Henry King
Principal Sponsor: Godfrey Morgan Solicitors
Sponsored by Adnams
“The contemporary buzz it brings to the Playhouse is like the Royal Court without the train fare…sharp and bright” Eastern Daily Press
“It is so good that a new company based in Norwich is doing work as good as you would see in London…it was the kind of thing you would see at the Donmar…we look forward to the next production.” Audience member
BLACKBIRD
Tuesday 13 – Saturday 17 October 2009
BLACKBIRD
By David Harrower
Cast: Nicola Harrison, Stuart Organ, Alice Bate, Hero Bain, Gemma Faulkner, Alison Gourlay, Molly Potter, Saskia Walsh, Joseph Wilde
Director: Martin Hutson
Designer: Signe Beckmann
Composer: Chris Warner
Lighting Designer: Henry King
Principal Sponsor: Godfrey Morgan Solicitors
Supported by Arts Council England, Norfolk County Council, Norwich City Council, The Garage
“Wonderfully compassionate performance….their acting alone is worth the ticket.” Eastern Daily Press
“Thank you so much…finally a decent play for the students to see. We’re all raving about it this morning….we want more like this PLEASE!!!...Finally, something they can really speak passionately about.” Teacher
Skylight
Tuesday 20 – Saturday 24 April 2010
SKYLIGHT
By David Hare
In one of London’s less desirable districts, successful restaurateur Tom arrives unannounced at Kyra’s flat. Exploding back into her life he demands forgiveness for their adulterous affair which she ended three years ago, the moment his dying wife learned of its existence. Skylight blends humour, tension, tenderness and confrontation, as Tom and Kyra’s love is challenged by their differing views.
A gripping and thrilling play, an impassioned head-on collision of values and confused desires by one of Britain’s most successful playwrights, it was first performed at the National Theatre in 1995 and won the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 1996.
“The play of the decade” The Spectator
“A magnificent chamber play by one of the few major playwrights in our language” New York Times
“There are times in the theatre when you suddenly find yourself in the grip of silence…what is happening on stage is both thrilling and dangerous” Sunday Times
Principal Sponsor: Godfrey Morgan Solicitors
Supported by Arts Council England
The Pillowman
Tuesday 19 – Saturday 23 October 2010
The Pillowman
By Martin McDonagh
A viciously funny, seriously disturbing and pitch black comedy. A writer is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of child-murders that are happening in his town. The good cop/bad cop antics of his interrogators mask a very dark undertone as the author is pressured into revealing the eventsof his own childhood that inspired his writing.
Martin McDonagh’s searingly brilliant play premièred at the National Theatre in 2003, and
won the 2004 Olivier Award for Best New Play.
“McDonagh’s invention of a new comedy-horror genre and his virtuoso technical skill leaves
most playwrights gasping.... For those with strong stomachs it’s horribly watchable”
Independent on Sunday
“An extraordinary play. Hauntingly, horribly entertaining”
Mail on Sunday
McDonagh’s plays and the award-winning film In Bruges have cemented his reputation as an artist unafraid to confront the darkest aspects of human behaviour, using his trademark mix of violence and humour.