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A Gift to the Wellington Theatre Community
A Gift to the Wellington Theatre Community The Critical Mass presents a rehearsed reading of
The Real Inspector Hound
by Tom Stoppard
Monday 29 November 2010
Downstage Theatre, 12 Cambridge Tce, Wellington
7.30pm – general
admission – first in best seat
The obsessions,
jealousies and thwarted desires that drive a pot-boiler
whodunit on stage also permeate the lives of the critics
reviewing it. Reality, fantasy, life and death curdle with
comical flair in the cauldron of Stoppard’s creative
imagination.
It was Stoppard’s experiences as a theatre critic in Bristol that inspired him to write this metaphysically mangled parody of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap.
What better way, then, for Wellington’s critics to show their appreciation to the Wellington theatre community, for another splendid year of inspiring theatre in the creative capital, than to ‘cross over to the other side’ …
GET YOUR OWN
BACK ON THE CRITICS!
It’s
open season on The Critical Mass: anyone who wants to may
write a review, to be published on Theatreview – and for
once pseudonyms will be allowed.
Just email your
review to Michael Wray: michaelwray@xtra.co.nz
The Real Inspector Hound
by Tom Stoppard
Downstage, Monday 29 November 2010
7.30pm – general admission – first in best
seat.
Bar opens 6.30pm and re-opens after the
show
Running time: 1hr 10min approx.
A koha (to pay
for the techie) will be appreciated
CAST
Moon
……...…………………… Laurie Atkinson
Birdboot …….……………..…….. John Smythe
Mrs Drudge ………..….……... Elspeth Sandys
Simon ………………….…..………… Jackson
Coe
Felicity ………………....…………… Helen
Sims
Cynthia …………………………... Lynn
Freeman
Magnus ………………….…………...
Uther Dean
Inspector Hound ………………….. Dan
Slevin
With a special guest appearance in a mystery role
by Michael Wray
Director ……….……….…….…
Ewen Coleman
Tech. operator …….………..…. Deb
McGuire
The Critical Mass thanks Hilary Beaton,
Angela Green and the staff of Downstage Theatre,
and the
APOLLO 13: Mission Control company for their great
generosity and support.
ENDS
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