Sussex-based theatre company thinktanktheatre, resident company at Worthing's newest theatre The Methvens Studio, will perform two extra nights of their critically acclaimed production of Ashes to Ashes by Nobel Prize winning playwright Harold Pinter at the new theatre in April 2007
thinktanktheatre's original performances of Ashes to Ashes, the first ever at The Methvens Studio, proved so popular with theatregoers that tickets for the performances sold out more than two weeks before the first night.
"I am very pleased that thinktanktheatre are able to repeat their performances here," says Andrew Bentley-Steed, Manager of Methvens Bookshop, Worthing, "So many of our customers were disappointed when tickets sold out so quickly for the first performances. Ashes to Ashes was very well received and my staff and I have had nothing but positive feedback. The audiences loved the warm, intimate feel of the theatre, the excellent performances and the enlightening and thought-provoking discussions afterwards."
In the play a man questions a woman in a psychological game of cat and mouse where brutality, domination and power interweave with anxiety, insecurity and reckless curiosity. What transpires is a twisted and perverted love-story that explores the link between sexual Fascism and its political counterpart. Does drama get any stranger than this?
This intense one-act drama has been described as "...an extraordinarily powerful work: elusive, mesmeric and disturbing." by Pinter�s biographer Michael Billington and as "...Pinter's greatest." by the Times Literary Supplement.
Like many of Pinter�s plays Ashes to Ashes resists total explication so following each evening�s performance the audience will have the opportunity to discuss the play with the director, Katherine Mustafa and the cast, Jane Huxley and Saul Ware.
The extra performances of Ashes to Ashes are on Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th April 2007 at 7.30pm at The Methvens Studio, Methvens Bookshop, Worthing. Tickets are �5, including the post-performance discussion, and are available by calling the box office on 01903 267729, by sending an email to [email protected] or in person at Mehvens Bookshop, Worthing.
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