Potentials
From: Tuesday, 5th May 2009
To: Saturday, 23 May 2009
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Synopsis
In just over an hour Benny will be thirty. He is a talented musician, loyal friend and... he works in HMV. Max, Frank and Karen have all come around to help him celebrate his birthday and ensure Benny reaches his true potential. Potentials is a dark comedy that explores the nature of success and the rationale of staying true to a youthful pact.
Our Review:
8 May 2009
Dominic Mitchell's prize-winning new play centres on the lives of four young people who made a pact in their twenties that each one of them who didn't fulfil their promise by the age of thirty would commit suicide. The four of them are all bound up inextricably in each other's lives, but all have different ideas about whether the pact is still valid.
Benny (Sam Donovan) is the eldest of the four and today is his 30th birthday. He's a promising musician who hasn't quite made it yet and feels he is a failure. He's prepared to go through with the suicide in order to achieve the fame he yearns for and his friend Max (Philip Brodie) is here to film the whole thing. Benny is a fairly simple creature who is prepared to be bullied by his friend Max who tells him that he has made arrangements to show the film at the Tate Modern. Max presents Benny with his birthday presents - a length of rope, some vodka and pills, and a cut throat razor.
Karen (Laura Murray) is a televisi...
Creative
Dominic Mitchell (Author)
Papatango Theatre Company (Producer)
Nick Rogers Ltd (in association with Intrinsic Pictures) (Producer)
Matt Roberts (Director)
Sam Donovan (Director)
Emma Pile (Design)
Tom Lightbody (Lighting)
Rachel Ivancic (Costume)
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