The Quiz
From: Tuesday, 17th June 2008
To: Saturday, 28 June 2008
Our Review: 
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Synopsis
The Ultimate Performance... Believe the lie, remember your lines and you will live to act again tomorrow. But what if you're nearing the end of the tour, you've had 'a few sherries', your stage manager has gone missing and it was always your dream to conk out on stage like Kean, Irving and Tommy Cooper? Is tonight the night to transcend the text and make the ultimate leap?
Our Review:
20 June 2008
David Bradley may be well known these days for playing Argus Filch in the Harry Potter films, but his reputation as a stage actor of consummate, understated skill and flawless technique is long established. Bradley goes straight to the heart of the matter without padding or tricky diversions.
So it is in this touring monologue by Richard Crane which Bradley will perform for two weeks next month in the smaller of the Trafalgar Studios. There, the intimacy of the surroundings will suit the piece better than did the vast, under-populated expanse of the Rose at Kingston.
Still, even here, Bradley transfixed the house with his farewell performance as an actor playing the role of the Grand Inquisitor in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. Dressed in a floor-length monk’s habit, he carefully lights the candles in the cell where he will take his leave of the role, the theatre, the audience and his own career.
In a programme note, Crane discusses the extende...
Cast
Creative
Richard Crane (Author)
Eastbourne Theatre (Producer)
New Vic Workshop (Producer)
David Giles (Director)
Kenneth Millor (Design)
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