Trafalgar Studios

Caretaker, The

Booking to 17 April 2010

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The Caretaker – first performed in 1960 – was Harold Pinter’s first big hit. Fifty years on, it remains as mysterious and compelling as ever.

In this new production, Hollywood star and two-time Tony Award winner Jonathan Pryce joins the pantheon of great actors from Donald Pleasance to Michael Gambon who have played the part of the mysterious drifter, Davies.

Offered shelter in a dilapidated London flat by two strangers who later turn out to be brothers, Davies becomes embroiled in power games both terrifying and comic.

When this production opened at the Liverpool Everyman Theatre in October 2009 it was acclaimed as one of the finest ever productions of the play ever. Now it transfers to the West End for fourteen weeks only.

Jonathan Pryce

‘Spellbinding’ Daily Telegraph, ‘Masterly’ Financial Times, ‘Magnetic’ Times, ‘Glorious’ Daily Mail, ‘Superb’ Independent, ‘Masterly’ Sunday Times

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Holding The Man

Booking 23 April 2010 to 03 July 2010

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West End Premiere of the multi award winning play from Australia, Holding The Man.

'A theatrical triumph' Variety

'Wickedly funny' The Australian

Based on the much loved award winning book by Tim Conigrave, adapted for the stage by acclaimed playwright Tommy Murphy, Holding the Man is a hilariously funny, tender and moving play following the remarkable true life love story of Tim Conigrave and John Caleo. It is a celebration that speaks across generations, sexual preference and culture.

Recreated for its UK premiere by the original Australian Director David Berthold and Tony Award winning Designer Brian Thomson.

One of Australia's most celebrated comic actors, Jane Turner, from the Australian TV hit Kath and Kim, will be making her West End debut.

The course of teenage love rarely runs smooth, but it is a white-water adventure if you are a gay boy in an all-male school in 1970s Melbourne with a crush on the captain of the football team. Still, despite the odds, Tim and John become close and for fifteen years their relationship survives everything life throws at it – the separations, the discriminations, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses – until the only problem that love can’t solve turns up to part them.
 
Holding the Man has become one of the most successful Australian stage productions in recent years, breaking box office records, achieving a total of 4 sell out seasons in Sydney, and collecting numerous awards including 2007 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Best Play, the 2007 AWGIE for Best Play and the Philip Parsons Award.

 – age 15+.
 

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Madness in Valencia

Booking to 06 March 2010

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By Lope de Vega
Translated by David Johnston
Directed by Simon Evans

Time Out’s Top Critics’ Choice and Show of the Week

Following its sell out run at the White Bear, enjoy this beguiling and hilarious pageant of love, madness and mistaken identity, Madness in Valencia.

Floriano kills a Prince and flees. Erifila escapes an abhorrent arranged marriage. Uncertain of their futures they take refuge in Valencia’s famed asylum. Locked up with fools and physicians they become entangled in the convolutions of a glorious farce.

'What Simon Evans' breathlessly pacy production illustrates is just how much enlivening fun can be had with a classic… a rare delight' - TimeOut

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Jesus Hopped The 'A' Train

Booking 06 April 2010 to 24 April 2010

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By Stephen Adly Guirgis
Directed by Esther Baker
Presented by Synergy Theatre Project
Performed by a company of professional and ex-prisoner actors

'You killed eight people, man… say your prayers twenty-four hours a day, it don’t mean shit!'

Protective Custody: Rikers Island, NY. Impressionable Angel and serial killer Lucius – two convicts set on a collision course – wrestle with God, their demons and a brutal system which shows no mercy.

Synergy works with prisoners and ex-prisoners, producing shows both in theatres and within prisons, delivering education projects for young people and new writing initiatives to develop playwrights from prison.

'Rare and remarkable… this is a drama that cries out for attention – and richly rewards it.  The acting in Esther Baker's shattering production is tremendous' Daily Telegraph on The Long Road


 

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Fever Chart, The

Booking to 03 April 2010

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Three Visions Of The Middle East

By Naomi Wallace
Directed by Katie Posner and Marcus Romer
Presented by Pilot Theatre and York Theatre Royal

This March Pilot Theatre Company, in association with York Theatre Royal bring their critically acclaimed production of The Fever Chart to London. This stirring work of American playwright Naomi Wallace, explores the Middle East through a personal and timeless account by three stories from all sides of the conflict.

The Fever Chart will open at Trafalgar Studios 2 on the 9 March running till 3 April, and explores the true nature of humanity through looking at the inhumane assaults that we must endure in this modern world. Written as a trilogy, the play will take the audience through moments of three lives, all based around the Palestine/Israel conflict. By basing such huge political questions in to three emotional stores, this play will talk to the audience through tangible issues of love, life and death.

Internationally acclaimed American playwright Naomi Wallace is best known for her deeply political plays, including One Flea Spare and The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, and is the recipient of the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship. Born in Kentucky, USA she now splits her time between the States and the Yorkshire Dales with her family. Her work as a poet, playwright and screenwriter have captured the heart of political tensions and have such gained her a reputation for pushing boundaries, particularly in America. Through her poetic use of language the audience is drawn into the world that Naomi presents…a world that already exists right outside our door.

After a highly successful run at York Theatre Royal last November, Pilot Theatre are excited to take the UK premiere of The Fever Chart to London. Director Katie Posner hopes that by creating work of this ilk  “we can expose audiences to different situations and stories in a non prejudiced way and allow them to start conversations and form their own opinions about hugely difficult and complex situations.”

“Pilot Theatre’s directors create an appropriate atmosphere for each vision. The tension evolves gradually. The revelations surprise rather than shock, which is just as it should be.”
The Stage

“The acting is exemplary, particularly from Lisa Came as an Israeli nurse faced with an awkward Palestinian patient (Raad Rawi). Daniel Rabin also impresses as an eloquent idealist in his pigeon loft.”
The Guardian

“The Fever Chart is at its best when mustering a post-structuralist flavour, working self-consciously alongside Frost and even Plato. Instead of reiterating a widely documented struggle of unrest in the Middle-East, The Fever Chart discovers new paths of understanding, through fragmentation, through sexuality, and most unsually – through pigeons.”
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