A SUSTAINED NOTE
OF FURY
“Sometimes I think they should’ve given him the OBE for services to bitterness”
• OTTO THE CLOWN IS DEAD! LONG LIVE OTTO THE CLOWN! After 20 years in exile, Otto Ronaldi Jr returns to Stubberfield’s Circus in the company of his long-suffering wife and manager, Adele. They’ve come to pay final respects to Otto Sr, one of the world’s best-loved, most widely acclaimed clowns, and to secure the succession for his slightly less widely acclaimed son.
The first of these tasks – seeing the old man off on his journey from sawdust to ashes – is fairly straightforward (barring the question of where to sprinkle him). The second task, though, the matter of the succession – well, if only life were as simple as death...
Click here to find out more about A Sustained Note of Fury and here to see a scene from the play.
THE DEATH OF NELSON
“Why’s the Pope so down on
communism? I mean – Jesus was a Marxist!”
• A one-man tragicomedy set over 18 years between the high tide of Thatcherism and the hopeful dawn of the New Labour ‘project’, The Death of Nelson is about people and politics; about friendship and betrayal; about love and regret; and about growing up and growing old (or not, as the case may be).
‘A complex and compelling narrative... a heady mix of insight, humour, student brawls and '80s politics – a must-see’.
Louise Hooper, BBC Culture Show
• Click here to find out more about The Death of Nelson and here to read some opinions thereof.
