Some Kind of Bliss
From: Tuesday, 20th November 2007
To: Saturday, 15 December 2007
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Synopsis
Small-time hack and seeker of minor adventure, Rachel sets off down the Thames Path to Greenwich to interview Lulu for her tabloid's glossy supplement. But between London Bridge and the pop legend's mirrored hallway lies a series of unpredicted and comic events. Some Kind of Bliss is a play about how a walk on an everyday Wednesday can become an odyssey that turns your life upside down.
Our Review:
23 November 2007
Specially written for the actress Lucy Briers, and first seen as a National Theatre Platform presentation, Samuel Adamson’s Some Kind of Bliss in the smaller of the Trafalgar Studios is a journalist’s tale of a walk by the river from London Bridge to Greenwich.
Well, almost to Greenwich. Rachel works for the Daily Mail and sets out from Islington one morning to interview Lulu, the pop singer. She is six hours early, so she gets off the tube at London Bridge and takes the Thames path to Rotherhithe.
She encounters some haunting statues, and some threatening locals. Buoyed along in a state of reverie, she invites the sexual advances of a teenager, smokes a joint, is brutally mugged by a Chinese ice-cream salesman, hi-jacks his van, mows down a Doberman and still arrives on schedule.
As she goes, Rachel is in fact re-living not only the history of writing the piece, but also the history of her relationship with her dull teache...
Cast
Creative
Samuel Adamson (Author)
Adam Knight (Producer)
Toby Frow (Director)
Lucy Osborne (Design)
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