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In a cheap Texan motel Claire has the drop on These will be the longest few hours of their lives... Directed by Eliza Power Script by Nick Brown Performed by Victoria Riley and Patric Doony Produced by Mark Lyminster Date 28th - 31st July 7.30 £8 The Hen and Chickens Theatre - 109 St. Paul's Road London N1 2NA Booking - www.unrestrictedview.co.uk or www.camdenfringe.com |
July 2014
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Condemned by his alcoholic mother as a "retard" for his obsession with the 1970 Brazilian World Cup winning team, Danny struggles to navigate a route out of psychosis and make his way in the world, only to find a paranoid urban wasteland of temptation and danger. Can he trust his guide, the glacial and ubiquitous Dr. Miranda? They will make this journey together in a multi-media slalom of fractured therapy and jump-cut fantasy until all but the truth is stripped away... Date 14th -16th Aug, 18th - 23rd Aug 2014 57 Park Road London N8 8SY Booking - www.moorsbar.com or TEL: 020 8348 4161 |
December 2012
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Danny struggles to navigate a route out of psychosis and make his way in the world, only to find a paranoid urban wasteland of temptation and danger. Can he trust his guide, the glacial and ubiquitous Dr. Miranda? They will make this journey together in a multi-media slalom of fractured therapy and jump-cut fantasy until all but the truth is stripped away. |
Nick Brown lives in North London with Maureen.
Ideology, religion and analysis have not broken him though his back is sore.
PREVIOUS THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS
Priest Hole | Dir. Alan Freestone | 2010 Hen & Chickens Theatre, Islington |
Some Afternoons | Dir. Jason Lawson | 2006 Hen & Chickens Theatre, Islington |
Blue Sky | Dir. Jason Lawson | 2005 Hen & Chickens Theatre, Islington |
Quinto Quatro | Dir. Jason Lawson | 2005 Union Theatre, Southwark |
Red Sky | Dir. Jason Lawson | 2004 Hen & Chickens Theatre, Islington |
Alice's House | 1997 Red Door Theatre, Clapham |
PUBLICATION
Orthodoxy And Other Bondage
The Centipede Assembly Rooms
Captain Spacecake's Recipe Book
EDUCATION
Graduated in politics from QMC, University of London
Title | Synopsis | Past Productions |
RETARDO | Danny, our fawn, struggles to navigate a route out of psychosis and make his way in the world, only to find a paranoid urban wasteland of temptation and danger filtered through sentinel CCTV. Can he trust his guide, the glacial Dr. Miranda? Are her appearances in his adventures transference or time travel? Danny and Miranda will make this journey together in a multi-media slalom of fractured therapy and jump-cut fantasy until all but the truth is stripped away. | |
HERE | Longtime friendships buckle under the strain of jaded desire in a remote coastal cottage. | |
MELTÉMI | One last fling for the former It Girl. Death can wait a little longer… | |
LEASEHOLD | In a room full of packing crates Molly & Tommy agree to throw a party. They have become restless and flippant, expressing through fantasy the gulf between them, idealised partners distant relations to the real thing. Their plight is set into stark relief as we witness through flashback the journey from first love to disappointment. As the party looms, and escape into comforting scenarios fails to satisfy, anticipation takes its toll on their brittle situation… | |
A REASONABLE WHISPER | PETER lives in a chaotic, Heath Robinson fortified den in N7. DORY, a lover from another time has happened upon him and is drawn back into his lateral and labyrinthine world. Is he nuts? Is she his angel? Is PIOTR, her young boyfriend, a reincarnation of less complicated times? You can cling to anything except the past. | |
BEST SERVED COLD | CLEMMY lies on her death bed, cancer soon to finish its business. She has written to her ex-husband JACK, her former best friend LEAH & to LEAH’s daughter BECCA, asking to see them one more time. LEAH & JACK, the jilted duo, are divided on what to do. LEAH, having cleaned up her boozy act, is hostile to any notion of seeing CLEMMY, not even to gloat. JACK, a practising counsellor, offers a more conciliatory tone. BECCA, wise beyond her years, gets on well with all the significant grown-ups in her life, particularly JACK, latterly an adopted paternal figure. CLEMMY will learn the true meaning of unfinished business. | |
Blue Sky | A Downtown bar. Slow night. THE MAN’s NYC monologue – setting the metaphor. SHE makes HER arrival. | Dir. Jason Lawson-2005 Hen & Chickens Theatre, Islington |
THE MIRROR MIRROR CLUB | DOM, a wealthy architect, has had an intermittent relationship with MOLLY since she was 15. Now 21 and at university she has agreed to see him again. MOLLY is spiky and curt, DOM eager to please and generous with his old money, dispensed in crisp new £50 notes. Meanwhile, DOM has struck up a bar stool tease with HOLLY, an American delighting in playing the elusive vamp to DOM’s seamless charmer. HOLLY is all look-but-don’t-touch, but is happy to receive DOM’s retainer. MOLLY fantasizes about reporting DOM to the police for their previous under-age liaison, but continues to sleep with him and accepts his lavish gifts. HOLLY flirts outrageously with everyone, a trait which appals and fascinates MOLLY. In time, a chance encounter unites MOLLY, HOLLY & DOM; cue the walls tumbling down. | |
Red Sky | “…so many little games…” | Dir. Jason Lawson-2004 Hen & Chickens Theatre, Islington |
PRIEST HOLE | Two lost souls slip into another room | Dir. Alan Freestone-2010 Hen & Chickens Theatre, Islington |
QUINTO QUATRO | Junkie Hell, an early Christmas Dinner, take your seat for the Lost Soul feast… | Dir. Jason Lawson-2005 Union Theatre, Southwark |
COMPENDIUM | A haunted old house and a haunted young man. | |
SOME AFTERNOONS | In a raw NYC apartment Gerry entertains a beautiful visitor for afternoon liaisons. Champagne and chocolates fail to impress, nevertheless Sara strips for her host with scant persuasion. Icy, disdainful and elusive, she fascinates him. There will be no turning back… | Dir. Jason Lawson-2006 Hen & Chickens Theatre, Islington |
FICKLE WISDOM | Steamy clinches in an Upstate New York hospital. | |
TRANSMUTER | You meet someone in a club, you like her, she likes you, you wake up to find her lying next to you, disrobed and sprawled all over your bed. Cue the end of your world. |