Backstage
Menu
Joanna Scanlan, Peter Bradshaw, Christopher Luscombe / Mercy (Rehearsed Reading)
Fri 21 Oct 6.00pm / £12/£8 / Matthews Yard
Suitable for 16+
Don’t miss this opportunity to experience a work in progress showing of a brand new piece of theatre writing.
Alison is a nurse with a proud record of over thirty years in the NHS. But now, on Christmas Eve, she faces the unthinkable: unemployment — redundancy at the hands of the managers, the bean-counters, the heartless men in suits. Her life’s work of helping sick people is about to be wiped out with one callous accountant’s keystroke. And as she teeters over an abyss of joblessness, Alison looks back at her sex life, her home life, her life tending to people in pain by targeting them with the laser beam of her emotional sensitivity.
Starring BAFTA-winning actress Joanna Scanlan, written by Peter Bradshaw, novelist and chief film critic of The Guardian and directed by Christopher Luscombe, Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
The show will be followed by a Q&A session.
Please note this is a rehearsed reading.
Fri 21 Oct 6.00pm / £12/£8 / Matthews Yard
Suitable for 16+
Don’t miss this opportunity to experience a work in progress showing of a brand new piece of theatre writing.
Alison is a nurse with a proud record of over thirty years in the NHS. But now, on Christmas Eve, she faces the unthinkable: unemployment — redundancy at the hands of the managers, the bean-counters, the heartless men in suits. Her life’s work of helping sick people is about to be wiped out with one callous accountant’s keystroke. And as she teeters over an abyss of joblessness, Alison looks back at her sex life, her home life, her life tending to people in pain by targeting them with the laser beam of her emotional sensitivity.
Starring BAFTA-winning actress Joanna Scanlan, written by Peter Bradshaw, novelist and chief film critic of The Guardian and directed by Christopher Luscombe, Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
The show will be followed by a Q&A session.
Please note this is a rehearsed reading.
Proudly powered by Weebly