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The Viewing Room
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 to |
NB:The opening night gala performance on Wednesday, March 5 will benefit Amnesty International and the play will be featured in Amnesty’s events to mark the 60th
anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights.
SPECIAL OFFER: All Practicum collaborators past, present and future (i.e.the mailing list) can get top price tickets at the reduced price of £20 if you quote ‘Practicum’ to ticketmaster. This offer is only available if you book a ticket for the first two weeks of the run.
Inspired by the hard realities of prison overcrowding and perceived threat from enemies within and without, The Viewing Room opened at Chicago’s legendary Steppenwolf Theatre and now receives its UK premiere in London’s West End with Leonard Roberts, star of the international block buster TV series Heroes, alongside James Flynn and Samantha Wright.
The near future: a white surburban couple enlist as in-house prison officers to host a black inmate. Complete with cage and instruction manual, cameras and tracking devices, their new guest is installed in the living room.
But is he what he seems to be? Is his crime greater than they have been led to believe? Behind the closed doors of a comfortable neighbourhood a dance of life and death begins.
With touches of dark farce, Daniel Joshua Rubin’s psychological thriller finds a paranoid world where spy drones float overhead, CCTV peers in and a state baying for blood colides with human nature - who really is free to choose? In a world become prison, where is freedom to be found? Welcome to The Viewing Room.
Cast:
Leonard Roberts
James Flynn
Samantha Wright
Crew:
Director: Alan Caig Wilson
Assistant Director: Mel Cook
Desinger: Alex Marker
Lighting Designer: Peter Harrison
Sound Designer: Joel Cahen
Costume Designer: Fabrice Serafino
The cast of THE VIEWING ROOM were recently special guests at the first annual WHAT’S ON STAGE AWARDS CEREMONY at the Lyric Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue, click on the link and keep your eyes peeled for Leonard, Sam and James decked out in our glad rags - you can see us just after Kevin Spacey!