Brand-new theatre company, Wild Surmise, will take the Bread & Roses audience next week on a hair-raising rollercoaster ride in So Bad, a new one-act black comedy.
‘Imagine Pinter without the pauses and the gloomy silences, played at the helter-skelter speed of farce, with a grammar nerd and a hungover slob in a giraffe onesie fighting for their lives against an unseen enemy,’ said writer and producer Duncan Turner.
‘Will and Ellen are on stage from beginning to end, trading lines at breakneck speed for nearly an hour and coping with the hairpin twists and turns of the fast-paced thriller plot. Any dropped cue or fluffed line would send the whole show spinning off the rails. The technical demands made on these wonderful young actors are immense.’
Award-winning Frederick Kelly directs So Bad at the Clapham Fringe on Friday 12 and Saturday 13 October at 5.00pm, starring Will Charlton and Ellen Publicover.
It said… It said… ‘I’m going to hurt you so bad’
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Still wearing a giraffe onesie from the previous night’s drinking, Sid wakes from a nightmare in which he was pursued by predators.
All Sid wants to do is to chill out, sleep off his hangover, and to catch up on David Attenborough’s The Hunt on iPlayer. He certainly doesn’t need a call from his flatmate, Leo, telling him not to touch his laptop. And he really does not need Leo’s girlfriend, Rose, giving him the third degree about where Leo might have gone.
All Rose knows is that Leo received a text message reading ‘I’m going to hurt you so bad’, just before he disappeared. She also knows that ‘bad’ is not an adverb.
Sid may not know all that much about grammar, but he does know the man who sent the text message is a brutal criminal called Craven. He also knows Craven is not the kind of man to worry too much about adjectives and adverbs.
So Bad is a farce in which there are no quick entrances and exits, and no wardrobes in which to hide. Instead, Sid and Rose are left alone on stage, by turns flirting and fighting, posing and panicking, as they try to decipher Leo’s cryptic text messages and to make sense of the menacing Skype calls made by the gang leader, Craven.
So Bad is at Bread and Roses Theatre 12th to 13th October 2018.
