A Black Comedy with Music, 2011
UK premiere in association with Camden Fringe Festival 2011
Shaw Theatre, London, UK
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Playwright Sylvie Gral
English Translation Thomas Smith-Vaniz
Music & Lyrics Sylvie Gral & Alvin Devolder
Audiovisual Collaborators Alvin Devolder & Otto Banovits
Video Projection Animation William Powers
Assistant Sound Engineer Noel Murray
Lighting & Assistant Stage Manager Rebecca Day
Assistant Director Otto Banovits
Production Designer & Stage Director Sylvie Gral
Producer Albin Balint
Cast Jurgen Schwarz, Thomas Matthews, David Vaughan Knight, Allan Devolder, Sara Mason, Alicia Sutton
Musicians Alvin Devolder, Hedi Bodi, Aurore Picavet
Presented by Albin Balint Productions in association with Camden Fringe Festival 2011
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French playwright and composer Sylvie Gral's bitingly absurdist new work, A WATCH IN THE TUNNEL, has a very simple premise: three characters are lost in a tunnel and are looking for their way out, and their hopes are fraught with periodic lapses in desire, conviction and even self-worth. They receive random visits from the tunnel’s quirky inhabitants, who provide them with dubious advice on how to catch the train that runs through the tunnel only once every year. However, as the voluptuous bombshell Suzie enters the scene, their views on matters of life and death suddenly change shape…
Photographs courtesy of Claire Bilyard : Scarab Pictures