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★ TOP 10 OFF-WEST END SHOWS 2018 ★
★ TOP THEATRE PICK ★
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“THE BEST PIECE OF NEW WRITING CURRENTLY ON THE LONDON STAGE”
- ALEKS SIERZ
"EXTRAORDINARY"
- BRITISH THEATRE
“Fascinating…the play will lodge in the mind…an Ingenious design”
- GUARDIAN
“Remarkable…packing in a younger audience”
- OBSERVER
“Firecracker writing”
- WHATSONSTAGE
“Sparkling”
- TIME OUT
“Lyrical”
- STAGE
A charged, haunting, unflinchingly honest new contemporary thriller set in 90s Essex about time, memory and escape by BAFTA nominated, prizewinning Essex playwright Kenneth Emson, directed by critically acclaimed 2017 JMK Award winner Josh Roche and designed by Sophie Thomas, fresh from their lauded production of My Name Is Rachel Corrie at the Young Vic.
CAST
Mark Weinman - Kev
Thomas Coombes - Ben
Louis Greatorex - Jack
Madison Clare - Lisa
MARK WEINMAN (Captain Amazing, Soho Theatre; The Gamechangers, BBC2; Press, BBC1), THOMAS COOMBES (Barbarians, Tooting Arts Club - Winner of Best Male Performance Off West End Theatre Awards; Hatton Garden, ITV; Save Me, Sky Atlantic), LOUIS GREATOREX (Safe, Netflix; The Last Post, BBC1; Last Tango In Halifax, BBC1) and MADISON CLARE (LAMDA).
Madison Clare
Credit: Tristam Kenton
Louis Greatorex
Credit: Tristam Kenton
PLASTIC
PLASTIC
PLASTIC
PLASTIC
PLASTIC
PLASTIC
PLASTIC
PLASTIC
PLASTIC
PLASTIC
Plastic Rehearsals
Plastic Rehearsals
Plastic Rehearsals
Writer | Kenneth Emson
Director | Josh Roche
Designer | Sophie Thomas
Lighting Designer | Peter Small
Sound Designer | Kieran Lucas
Producer | Molly Roberts
Associate Producer | Corinne Salisbury
Assistant Producer | Holly White
PR | Chloe Nelkin Consulting
Poster Image | Helen Murray
Show photography | Mathew Foster
2015 Latitude production cast | Katie Bonna, James Cooney, Adam Gillen, Scott Hazell
READ ALL ABOUT PLASTIC'S EXCITING PARTICIPATION PROGRAMME HERE
Plastic was generously supported by Arts Council England, Royal Victoria Foundation, Blyth Watson Charitable Trust, The Old Vic Theatre, Jocelyn Abbey and Triple E Ltd.
"Triple E Ltd, the industry leading designer and manufacturer of stage tracking and engineering products is delighted to support Poleroid Theatre's innovative staging of Plastic."
BUY THE TEXT FROM NICK HERN BOOKS HERE
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