Riff Raff
From: Tuesday, 6th April 2010
To: Saturday, 24 April 2010
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Synopsis
It’s Halloween, and half-brothers Mike "20-20" and Billy "Torch" are holed up in an abandoned crack den on the Lower East Side. They’ve got three kilos of smack, blood on their hands and New York’s biggest drug lord on their tail. With nowhere to turn, Mike calls an old friend from Brooklyn to sort out the mess. When he arrives and the night draws in, stories are swapped, loyalties are tested and the bleakness of their criminal lives threatens to envelop them forever...
Our Review:
13 April 2010
London theatre-goers are pretty used to seeing Hollywood names in lights in the West End. Now at the Arcola in East London film fans can find another name from across the pond – Laurence Fishburne, best known here for his roles as Morpheus in The Matrix films and Dr Raymond Langton in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. But he is not appearing in person. Instead, it is a play that he has written – his first – which is on offer.
Riff Raff opens on Halloween with two criminals, Billy, aka Torch (Eugene O’Hare) and Mike, aka 20-20 (Karl Collins), stumbling into a disused crack-den on New York’s Lower East Side. They need a place to hide having just robbed one of the city’s most notorious drug lords of 3 kilograms of smack and killed his nephew into the bargain. Billy is in pain from a gunshot wound in his hand while Mike alternates between taut anxiety – the sound of a rat sends him into a panic R...
Cast
Ariyon Bakare (Tony)
Karl Collins (Mike)
Eugene O'Hare (Billy)
Creative
Laurence Fishburne (Author)
Christopher Stafford (Producer)
Alarum (Company)
Bill Buckhurst (Director)
Simon Kenny (Design)
Dan Hill (Lighting)
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