tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41636470681370888792024-02-20T15:29:23.520-08:00DarknessArts on 5http://www.blogger.com/profile/18278873799359279628noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4163647068137088879.post-38438966300448099742011-08-30T03:11:00.001-07:002011-08-30T04:25:53.564-07:00<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span data-jsid="text">My thanks,</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span data-jsid="text"> <i style="color: red;">Pasco-Q</i></span></div><div style="color: white;"><span data-jsid="text"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Creative Producer </span></span></div>Arts on 5http://www.blogger.com/profile/18278873799359279628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4163647068137088879.post-58411050524681241172011-08-28T12:44:00.001-07:002011-08-28T12:44:50.063-07:00<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The Guardian</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> <span style="color: white;">- 3 Stars </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; font-family: "Zapf Dingbats"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Zapf Dingbats"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">★★★</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> "...it's gripping, atmospheric and quite superbly acted" </span>Arts on 5http://www.blogger.com/profile/18278873799359279628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4163647068137088879.post-53435947862250293232011-08-27T11:00:00.000-07:002011-08-29T03:28:18.297-07:00Darkness Trailer<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/27148238?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="440"></iframe>Arts on 5http://www.blogger.com/profile/18278873799359279628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4163647068137088879.post-7632729402994876022011-08-26T07:28:00.000-07:002011-08-29T10:36:21.022-07:00Audience Feedback<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px;">24.8.11</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Really liked it! Filmic and well acted, a good account of fundamentalism close to home.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Outstandingly good! Wish The Traverse would produce that kind of work! A courage look at fundamentalism. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"> </span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Brilliant! Acting great! ...Story line is good and very believable. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"> </span> <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Fantastic. There was a tear and I'm not an emotional person!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Brilliant. Fantastic performances.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Brilliant, well constructed, shocking and really of the moment issues. I recommend it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/theatre/darkness?reviews=audience" style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;">http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/theatre/darkness?reviews=audience</span></a></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;">19.8.11</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt;">Very enticing and disturbing, a good piece of drama with a compelling twist and polished performances.</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">Elaine and Fish </span></div><h3 style="color: red; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"></h3><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">A very strong play. I enjoyed it, but enjoyed is perhaps not the right word! Very powerful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We really enjoyed it, good direction and well written, convincingly acted. Melodramatic but not over performed. </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">"...dramatic tension and heartfelt emotion...The cast is strong and the characters of the father, older brother and youngest brother are played by stand out actors. "</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;">Teresa Sparks</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/theatre/darkness?reviews=audience" style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;">http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/theatre/darkness?reviews=audience</span></a> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Saw this play last week and loved it. It did that thing that all good plays do, it evoked the emotions whilst watching the fabulous performance of all the actors and then lived with us afterwards causing immediate conversation and week long reflection. Well done to all concerned.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;">Mike Knowles</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><a href="http://www.thepublicreviews.com/ed-fringe-2011-darkness-zoo-roxy/%20%20%20"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;">http://www.thepublicreviews.com/ed-fringe-2011-darkness-zoo-roxy/</span><span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;"></span><span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></a><span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Really good - an intense experience, very powerful and quite disturbing portrait of Zealots in Christianity. Very interesting with brilliant performances, it feels like a Coen brothers film.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Nick Blower</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;">14.8.11</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">A brilliant show with a very talented cast. The direction ( Gari Jones) and skill of the actors allowed you to feel truly involved with the performance. Shining moments, in particular from David Tarkenter, Jamie Wallwork and Nathan Wright made the performance for me. This show wouldn't be out of place at the National. A must see. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Joel Marvin</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><a href="http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/theatre/darkness?reviews=audience#reviews%20%20"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></a><a href="http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/theatre/darkness?reviews=audience" style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;">http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/theatre/darkness?reviews=audience</span></a><a href="http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/theatre/darkness?reviews=audience#reviews%20%20"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;"></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;">13.8.11</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Very good. The best thing I've seen in a week at the Fringe"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;">Rob F</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">"This is the best thing I've seen. The cast are incredible, they showed 300% commitment. Nothing approaches the intensity or technicality (of Darkness). Very realistic but nothing is held back."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;">Jerry Leavy</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">"Beautifully directed. Lovely ensemble, really good performances. Interesting and relevant topic...I believed the world that was created before me"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;">Joy Harrison</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;">12.8.11</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">"Fully formed, very well realised. Rich text and incredible cast."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;">Rob Salmon</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">"Deeply evocative, this play leaves one contemplating mankind for days afterwards. It's brilliant. Surprising, gripping, inspiring, terrifying. Quite long for a fringe production, it nevertheless felt like ten minutes as it totally absorbed through a tight production. The acting was strong and consistent. Darkness must be a play that will last long beyond the Fringe. It had something really memorable that is quite hard to encapsulate in a few words. Incredibly exciting to be at one of its first productions, I was left feeling that I had witnessed something that I would discuss years later." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;">Christine Temple </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/theatre/darkness?reviews=audience" style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;">http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/theatre/darkness?reviews=audience</span></a> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">"A good script, tightly acted. Resonances with various Bible stories - but not derivative of them. This play is not about the evils of religion as about the evil that religion can become. My heart went out to the mother who lost her son twice over.****"</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;">David Goodrum </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/theatre/darkness?reviews=audience" style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;">http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/theatre/darkness?reviews=audience</span></a> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">"Great. Really good. David Tarkenter as Huw was phenomenal</span><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;">. Really well written."</span><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;">Alexander Thomas & Peregrine Fallows</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">"Awesome, the quality of the acting meant you could relate to the issues. Brilliant, thankyou" </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;">Mike Burr & Alex Roden</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">"Brilliant play. Brilliant performances."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;">Paul Tinto</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;">10.8.11</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">"We both cried simultaneously, without knowing. Absolutely brilliant"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;">Karen Binks and Scott Morgan</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">"Fantastic, isolating, the audience is witnessing something profound"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;">William Donaldson</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;">9.8.11</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">"Very strong performances by David Tarkenter (George) and Jamie Wallwork (Tony) in a bleak and frightening look into the dark heart of religious fanaticism. All leavened with a touch of surreal humor.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Ebay, indeed!!"</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;">Mark Kleiman </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><a href="http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/theatre/darkness?reviews=audience#reviews"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></a><a href="http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/theatre/darkness?reviews=audience" style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;">http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/theatre/darkness?reviews=audience</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">"Wicked. Very stong cast. Reminded me of something you'd see at the National Theatre" </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;">Emma Arends & Rebecca Farrell</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">"Absolutely magnificent. Really quite something"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;">Kate Crawford</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><br />
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</div>Arts on 5http://www.blogger.com/profile/18278873799359279628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4163647068137088879.post-48415938172052787202011-08-05T03:33:00.000-07:002011-08-05T05:01:37.469-07:00Today is the day!<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;">Darkness opens today for the first preview show at 3.30pm. There is an offer for the first 20 people to arrive at the Zoo Roxy Box Office and who quote <span style="font-size: small;">“Q” will get a ticket for £2.50. </span>Grab this great opportunity to be there at the very start of this exciting show. </div>Arts on 5http://www.blogger.com/profile/18278873799359279628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4163647068137088879.post-57550671217549661702011-07-20T09:54:00.000-07:002011-07-20T09:54:31.811-07:00Kieran from The Good Review interviews Joshua Hayes (Dan) during rehearsals.Joshua Hayes is currently rehearsing the Lakeside Theatre’s new production of Darkness a new play by fringe first winning writer Jonathan Lichtenstein. The production will be performed throughout the Edinburgh festival at the Zoo Roxy’s loft venue and Josh recently took the time out of his rehearsals on Essex University campus to answer a few questions for us about the project.<br />
Alright Josh?<br />
Now then Kieran lad!<br />
<b>What can you tell us about Darkness?</b><br />
It’s a brilliant new play, by a fantastic writer, brought to the stage by visionary director Gari Jones, and features a superb ensemble cast. If I may say so myself!<br />
<b>High Praise! What’s it about?</b><br />
Its about a family in Wales, and their relationship with religion and how it affects their relationships with each other. It is quite dark and sinister, as you’d imagine from the title, but has some funny and moving moments which balance it out nicely.<br />
<b>Is it exciting being at the start of a new project?</b><br />
Absolutely! The source material is brilliant, Jonathan [Lichtenstein] has given us a really strong platform to build on. We were lucky enough to have had a rehearsed reading at Pulse festival a few weeks ago and the positive reaction from the audience has helped fuel the excitement surrounding the project. Also its quite a relevant subject given our ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and things like Harold Camping’s recent predictions about the date of the Rapture.<br />
<b>How are the rehearsals going?</b><br />
So far very good, we are in the process of getting it up on its feet. I think the cast and I are just enjoying finding the characters and exploring the relationships. We as a cast are getting on great, and the relaxed atmosphere in the room makes the process so much more fulfilling. Whats interesting about the play is that a lot of the fractures in the relationships occur before the start of it and the period in which the piece takes place is when everything comes to a head. <br />
<b>You’ve been to Edinburgh before, how will this trip compare to the last?</b><br />
It makes me even more excited if I’m honest. Because when I went before I was still a student and I didn’t really know what it was all about, and now I know what to expect I am looking forward to it even more. I managed to see some great things at the Zoo Roxy last time as well and I am now really excited to be performing there myself.<br />
<b>www.thegoodreview.co.uk</b>Arts on 5http://www.blogger.com/profile/18278873799359279628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4163647068137088879.post-31560925335020458922011-05-27T03:14:00.000-07:002011-07-26T05:42:00.357-07:00<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Darkness</span></span></span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">by Jonathan Lichtenstein</span></span><br />
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Yann, a young Muslim immigrant, takes work that no one else will do; clearing windblown trees in a remote forest. It’s dangerous, but he needs the job and anyway he’s fallen for the beautiful Caitlin. The family he works for are deeply religious and soon Yann is confronted about his own convictions.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i>Darkness</i></b> is Fringe First winner Jonathan Lichtenstein’s exploration of the devastating impact of religious fundamentalism. As authority figures display an absolute belief in their divine right to act with impunity, a tight knit rural family are torn apart by its destructive force.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div>Directed by Gari Jones.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Press praise for Jonathan Lichtenstein's work:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
<i>"a harrowing heartbreaking play"</i> The Guardian <i>(The Pull of Negative Gravity, </i>2004<i>)</i><br />
<i>"urgent and moving’" </i>4 Stars. Lyn Gardner, The Guardian <i>(The Pull Of Negative Gravity</i><i>)</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>“Jonathan Lichtenstein has written the first great play about the second Iraq conflict.”</i> 5 Stars. The Scotsman (<i>The Pull Of Negative Gravity</i>)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>"…compelling drama…an impressive achievement…" </i>New York Times (<i>Memory</i>, 2007)</div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br />
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