Drowning Fish Productions and The Impulse Company presents:Sleeping Dogs
By Brenda Gottsche
BARONS COURT THEATRE, Tuesday 31st January – Saturday 18th February 2012
PRESS PERFORMANCE: Friday 3rd February
‘Brenda Gottsche’s bright comedy drama... a gently provocative, highly enjoyable evening.’
Time Out (on The Fulham Jesus)
Doctor Roz is Britain’s fastest-rising celebrity shrink. Her radio show has ratings through the roof and her self-help books fly off the shelves. She’s got a great marriage to Leo, who has just written a best-selling crime novel, and a teenage son whose idea of rebellion is to find Jesus.
All seems well until Leo’s past begins to catch up to him, and, faced with blackmail from an old Australian acquaintance, he has to decide whether the truth is really the best policy or if he should just let sleeping dogs lie. Meanwhile, Roz’s carefully-crafted life begins to fall apart, first at home, then publicly on her radio show.
Sleeping Dogs is a sometimes funny, often moving play that asks the crucial question, ‘how much do we really know of one another?’
Brenda Gottsche, the playwright, divides her time between London and Sydney. Her first play, The Fulham Jesus, debuted at Barons Court in 2003 and has been performed in the USA and in Australia. Hot Property played at the Old Red Lion in 2005, andThe Max Factor at Barons Court in 2007. Her production company is Drowning Fish Productions.
Co-producing is The Impulse Company, founded by Scott Williams to celebrate the work of actors, writers, and directors. Originally from California, Williams has directed the world over, including Measure for Measure at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Ancient History at Hong Kong’s Caught in the Act, and Five O’Clock Angel starring Nichola McAuliffe, which played throughout the UK for over six months. The Impulse Company is expanding its reach with regular work in Paris, Sydney, New York, and Hong Kong.
The cast includes Barbara Hatwell (Anthea Dixon in Brookside) and Gregory Cox (Arcadia, National Theatre)
www.drowningfishproductions.com
Running Time: Approx 2 hours
Company Info
Written by: Brenda Gottsche
Directed by: Scott Williams and Dominique Gerrard
Design by: Philip Lindley
Lighting Design by: Luke Girling
Costumes by: Rachael Smith
Cast:
Leo Gregory Cox Alex Joel Dyer Roz Barbara Hatwell
Andy Andrew William Robb Anna Fiona Watson
Listings information:
Venue: Barons Court Theatre
Address: The Curtain’s Up, 28a Comeragh Road, London W14 9HR
Dates: Tuesday 31st January – Saturday 18th February
Price: £12 (£10 concs.)
Box Office: 020 8932 4747
Transport: Barons Court/West Kensington
Times: Tues-Sat 7.30pm, Sat 2.30pm, Sun 6.30pm
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Wednesday, 4 January 2012
Kafka V Kafka
Nameless Theatre Company presents: Kafka v Kafka
Based on Franz Kafka's Letter to my Father
Adapted and translated by Howard Colyer
BROCKLEY JACK, Tues 17th January - Sat 4th February 2012
At the age of 36, Franz Kafka was driven to write a letter to the father that he feared, addressing his harsh and authoritarian treatment of his son and the humiliations he inflicted on him. The resulting letter, over 100 pages long, was read by his sister and his mother, but not one word was read by his father.
"Dearest Father, recently you asked me why I maintain that I'm afraid of you. And, as usual, I didn't know how to answer. It was due to my fear of you. And because my fear rests on so many details that I couldn't even have discussed half of it."
Based on playwright Howard Coyler's own critically acclaimed translation of the letter, Letter to My Father, published in 2008, Kafka v Kafka is a moving work about the struggle to communicate. Directed by Leigh Tredger and set in the imagination of Franz Kafka, the play is a retelling of his childhood trials and traumas; as much a self-accusation as an accusation against his father, as much self-examination as cross-examination.
Howard Colyer is a playwright and novelist. His most recent productions include The Overcoat, which had a sell-out run at the Brockley Jack in January 2011, Conference Call, which was selected for LOST Theatre's One Act Play Festival in May, and Homework, which appeared at the Brockley Jack in November.
"Howard Colyer states that he was most concerned to reproduce the raw "venting of feelings" in the letter as well as the extraordinary "momentum of the prose." In both these aims he succeeds... his translation catches the naked energy of the original" New York Sun (on Letter to my Father).
www.brockleyjack.co.uk / Running Time: 75 mins
Company Info
Adapted and translated by: Howard Colyer Directed by: Leigh Tredger
Artistic Director: James Farrell Associate Director: Max Pappenheim
Assistant Director: Anna Nguyen Stage Designer: Moi Tran
Lighting Designer: Anna Sbokou
Cast
Franz Jack Wilkie Hermann Gareth Pilkington Julie Jean Apps Ottla Ivy Corbin
Listings information:
Venue: Brockley Jack
Address: 410 Brockley Road, London, SE4 2DH
Dates: Tues 17th Jan - Sat 4th Feb 2012
Price: £12 (£10 concs.)
Box Office: 0844 847 2454
Transport: Train: Crofton Park Station, Honor Oak Park Station; Bus: 122, 172, 171, P4, N171
Times: Tues-Sat 7.45pm, Saturday matinee 4pm
Based on Franz Kafka's Letter to my Father
Adapted and translated by Howard Colyer
BROCKLEY JACK, Tues 17th January - Sat 4th February 2012
At the age of 36, Franz Kafka was driven to write a letter to the father that he feared, addressing his harsh and authoritarian treatment of his son and the humiliations he inflicted on him. The resulting letter, over 100 pages long, was read by his sister and his mother, but not one word was read by his father.
"Dearest Father, recently you asked me why I maintain that I'm afraid of you. And, as usual, I didn't know how to answer. It was due to my fear of you. And because my fear rests on so many details that I couldn't even have discussed half of it."
Based on playwright Howard Coyler's own critically acclaimed translation of the letter, Letter to My Father, published in 2008, Kafka v Kafka is a moving work about the struggle to communicate. Directed by Leigh Tredger and set in the imagination of Franz Kafka, the play is a retelling of his childhood trials and traumas; as much a self-accusation as an accusation against his father, as much self-examination as cross-examination.
Howard Colyer is a playwright and novelist. His most recent productions include The Overcoat, which had a sell-out run at the Brockley Jack in January 2011, Conference Call, which was selected for LOST Theatre's One Act Play Festival in May, and Homework, which appeared at the Brockley Jack in November.
"Howard Colyer states that he was most concerned to reproduce the raw "venting of feelings" in the letter as well as the extraordinary "momentum of the prose." In both these aims he succeeds... his translation catches the naked energy of the original" New York Sun (on Letter to my Father).
www.brockleyjack.co.uk / Running Time: 75 mins
Company Info
Adapted and translated by: Howard Colyer Directed by: Leigh Tredger
Artistic Director: James Farrell Associate Director: Max Pappenheim
Assistant Director: Anna Nguyen Stage Designer: Moi Tran
Lighting Designer: Anna Sbokou
Cast
Franz Jack Wilkie Hermann Gareth Pilkington Julie Jean Apps Ottla Ivy Corbin
Listings information:
Venue: Brockley Jack
Address: 410 Brockley Road, London, SE4 2DH
Dates: Tues 17th Jan - Sat 4th Feb 2012
Price: £12 (£10 concs.)
Box Office: 0844 847 2454
Transport: Train: Crofton Park Station, Honor Oak Park Station; Bus: 122, 172, 171, P4, N171
Times: Tues-Sat 7.45pm, Saturday matinee 4pm
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