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Spider
Fresh from its runner up award for Best Show at Bitesize Festival, Riverside Studios (Feb 24), and its sell-out run at South London Theatre, comes Spider, a new play written and directed by Jude Benning.
'Whiplash' meets 'The Goonies', Spider is an irreverent fast-paced black comedy romp with a flawed character at its heart. It explores themes of authority, manipulation and rebellion, set against a backdrop of shifting social values. When the brakes are off, how do the outlooks of Gen X and Gen Z compare?
For years Frank Dowling has had his acting students in his thrall. But two decades after starring in the West End hit, Spider, his vigour is waning. Set in a London drama school, we watch his students develop over the course of a year, their training culminating in an improvisational game set in Epping Forest. Here, over a few hot days in June, the discipline learned in the rehearsal room rapidly starts to unravel.
The play asks what happens when you deconstruct your heroes and watches as the superior male begins to lose his grip on power. An energetic adventure story, it will leave audiences guessing until the end.
'Whiplash' meets 'The Goonies', Spider is an irreverent fast-paced black comedy romp with a flawed character at its heart. It explores themes of authority, manipulation and rebellion, set against a backdrop of shifting social values. When the brakes are off, how do the outlooks of Gen X and Gen Z compare?
For years Frank Dowling has had his acting students in his thrall. But two decades after starring in the West End hit, Spider, his vigour is waning. Set in a London drama school, we watch his students develop over the course of a year, their training culminating in an improvisational game set in Epping Forest. Here, over a few hot days in June, the discipline learned in the rehearsal room rapidly starts to unravel.
The play asks what happens when you deconstruct your heroes and watches as the superior male begins to lose his grip on power. An energetic adventure story, it will leave audiences guessing until the end.
Date:
19 to 21 August - 9pm
Tickets:
Standard: £16.45
Concessions: £13.36
19 to 21 August - 9pm
Tickets:
Standard: £16.45
Concessions: £13.36
The Cockpit, Gateforth Street, London NW8 8EH
Mon 19 Aug to Wed 21 August
Website:
www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/spider
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