Shivered
From: Wednesday, 7th March 2012
To: Saturday, 14 April 2012
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Synopsis
A young couple are moving into their new home. A soldier is being held hostage. Two boys are searching for monsters. All these things are connected by both family and time... but what story can be told when family and time are broken? Covering over twelve years, it unpicks the story of two families and then re-weaves it into something new and startling. Seven people, one war, a derelict car plant and mysterious lights in the sky... all come together in the Essex new-town of Draylingstowe, where the view from green hills once offered hope and prosperity for all.
Our Review:
14 March 2012
Philip Ridley is riding high at the moment. As the outstanding Arcola revival of his first seminal play The Pitchfork Disney is about to close, his new work opens at the same venue that premiered Tender Napalm so successfully last year. The murky brick tunnels and rumbling overhead trains of Southwark Playhouse set the mood perfectly for Shivered, a powerful drama as much about the unseen terrors of the imagination as the horrors of the tangible world.
Set in the fictional new town of Draylingstowe in Essex, based around a now defunct and possibly poisonous car plant, the play explores the intertwined misfortunes of two families over 12 years. While his parents’ marriage tragically implodes after the beheading of his elder soldier brother by Jihadists, the lonely, troubled 12-year-old Ryan befriends Jack, a not-too-bright, bullied boy who looks after his clinically obese mother. But their bonding over a common interest in lurid sci...
Latest User Review
Virginia - 13 April 2012:
I was thoroughly enthralled by this play, it was darkly funny in places, disturbing in others and quite a comment on our society as it is.Jack and Ryan's type of relationship is probably played out all across the UK and is perfectly portrayed, Gordy is mesmerising - Well worth seeing!...
Cast
Olivia Poulet
Joseph Drake
Amanda Daniels
Robbie Jarvis Dean
Andrew Hawley
Simon Lenagan
Joshua Williams
Creative
Philip Ridley (Author)
Aron Rollin (Producer)
Caitlin Albery Beavan (for Moya Productions) (Producer)
Russell Bolam (Director)
Anthony Lamble (Design)
Richard Howell (Lighting)
Tom Gibbons (Sound)
Malcolm Ransom (Director)
Anna Morrissey (movement) (Director)
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