Nina Atesh, Andrew Callaghan and Jack Flammiger on new play The Drought
For this week’s Runn Radio present we had the pleasure of Nina Atesh, Andrew Callaghan and Jack Flammiger be part of us. Nina is the author of the brand new play from Pither Productions, The Drought, while Andrew and Jack play the roles of Captain and Garson.
The play received 2021’s London Horror Competition’s Playwright Competitors, the place it acquired a tabled studying. Since then it has been additional developed earlier than debuting on stage at King’s Head Theatre in September. It subsequent performs at Outdated Purple Lion as a part of their GrimFest season.
We focus on what impressed a play set on a Victorian naval vessel, how a lot successful a writing competitors has helped in driving the play ahead, and what it’s like for an actor performing in such an intense play.
You may learn our current overview of the present from it’s King’s Head Theatre run right here.
The Drought
Outdated Purple Lion Theatre
1 – 4 November
A Captain and his Steward of a Victorian British Navy vessel discover themselves marooned on the backside of the ocean ground after the ocean mysteriously disappears. On the sting of survival and operating low on provisions, they maintain out hope for rescue, clinging to their sanity by enacting out naval rituals of their seafaring previous, all of the whereas attempting to dam out the anonymous and unknowable terrors that litter the ocean ground.
Their odd reverie is dashed nonetheless, when a stranger in search of refuge knocks on their cabin door. As these males come head to head with their deepest and darkest fears, their minds slip and insanity begins to take maintain. For what’s a captain with out his ship? And what’s a ship with out water?
The Drought is an atmospheric darkish thriller about how objective shapes our lives and mankind’s relationship with nature.
Tickets and extra data right here.