Stephen Smith and Scott Le Crass on Harry’s Christmas
Our company this week on our Runn Radio present had been Stephen Smith (from ThreeDumb Theatre) and Scott Le Crass. Stephen and Scott are at present placing the ending touches to their manufacturing of Steven Berkoff‘s Harry’s Christmas, which can open at King’s Head Theatre from 6 December (enjoying through to 24 December).
Stephen is somebody we all know properly at Everything Theatre having picked up a catelogue of 4 and 5 star opinions for his earlier work. He has now teamed up with director Scott to placed on this Steven Berkoff play about lonliness and isolation. It’s a play that, as we talk about, is as well timed now as ever because it explores one thing that may be so simply missed at Christmas time, these individuals who spend it alone.
As properly as speaking about such themes and why the previous couple of years has made this play much more related, we additionally chat about working collectively, and the way simple it’s for Stephen at hand over the directing to another person, having self-directed a lot of his current works.
The present performs at King’s Head theatre all through December, extra information right here.
Harry’s Christmas
King’s head Theatre
6 – 24 December 2022
Harry sits alone in his London flat, counting his playing cards, ready for anybody to name him; maybe for an previous pal to knock on the door, or for an previous lover to seem or simply for somebody to have a drink with. Waiting for anybody, actually. Anyone. As the dreaded Christmas Day nears his sense of isolation deepens and he falls additional into the trough of despair.
This portrait of loneliness and isolation confronts the large, typically unstated points that have an effect on many individuals for whom the top of December, quite than being a festive season, is a time when emotional pressures are at their highest.
Harry’s Christmas is a searingly darkish comedy that was initially carried out at The Donmar Warehouse in 1985, but the concepts explored via the life of 1 man on this complicated and microscopic examination of society’s hypocrisy are as related at the moment as they had been then, if no more so they usually have an effect on thousands and thousands of individuals.
Tickets from simply £10 (previews). Further data and bookings right here.