21/04/2015
I am on the Production Team for a new musical and an Irish play, to be produced by Katy Lipson of Aria Entertainment in Angel, Islington.
Aria Entertainment is proud to present a double-bill of Marina Carr’s Portia Coughlan and a new musical The Verb, ‘To Love’ at The Old Red Lion Theatre from the end of April until the end of May.
The Verb ‘To Love’ runs 29 April - 23 May 2015, 7pm and 2pm Matinees. (£14/£12)
We are delighted to be presenting the world premiere of new musical, The Verb, ‘To Love’ by Andy Collyer.
Simon is lost, abandoned by James, his partner of twenty-three years. He is alone for the first time, until he finds Ben, the great love of his life, a young man seventeen years his junior, and finds himself rejuvenated and fulfilled in a way he never knew possible. They share the complications of falling in love, undergoing upheavals and experiencing change, until it all falls apart. But does it?
Directed by Jonathan O’Boyle (Bash Latterday Plays,Trafalgar Studios, Made in Britain, Old Red Lion and Assistant Director of The Scottsboro Boys), The Verb, ‘To Love’ is an intimate new LGBTQ musical exploring the complications of changing relationships, and the power of different kinds of love; ‘The verb ‘to love’ has so many meanings…’
Producer Katy Lipson of Aria Entertainment comments: It's so wonderful to have the opportunity to present a double bill at The Old Red Lion Theatre next season. Both play and musical are dramatic and bold pieces of theatre and I hope our audiences will gain something memorable by their experience at our productions.
The Verb, ‘To Love’ is supported by Grant for the Arts.
Cast
Simon – Martin Neely
Ben – Gareth Bretherton
Creative Team
Producer Katy Lipson for Aria Entertainment
Director Jonathan O’Boyle
Set and Costume Designer Nik Corrall
Casting Director Benjamin Newsome
The show running time is approximately 1 hour without an interval.
Portia Coughlan runs 28 April – 23 May 2015, 8.45pm and 3.45pm Matinees. (£16/£14)
Running in tandem with The Verb, ‘To Love’ is Portia Coughlan is a ferocious, haunting and beautiful Irish tale by Marina Carr, writer of By The Bog of Cats, The Mai and Ullaloo.
Portia Coughlan lives in a monstrous limbo, haunted by a yearning for her spectral twin brother lying at the bottom of the Belmont River, unable to find any love for her wealthy husband and children, seeking solace in soulless affairs, deeply afraid of what she might do. Written to celebrate the centenary of Dublin's National Maternity Hospital, Portia Coughlan packs a hell of a punch. It hurts to look at it. But it has to be seen. (Irish Independent). Last performed at The Royal Court Theatre in 1996, this exciting revival at the Old Red Lion is directed by Bronagh Lagan (RAGS - In Concert, Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, Girlfriends, Union Theatre and Henry VI Part 1, Rose Theatre, Bankside).
Cast
Portia Coughlan - Susan Stanley
Raphael Coughlan - Ben Mulhern
Damus Halion - Alan Devally
Fintan Goolan - Conan Sweeny
Stacia Diyle - Karen Cogan
Blaize Scully - Anne Kent
Maggie May Doorley - Veronica Quilligan
Senchil Doorley - James Holmes
Marianne Scully - Susan Cummins
Sly Scully - Christopher Dunne
Gabriel Scully - Keith Ramsay
Creative Team
Producer Katy Lipson for Aria Entertainment
Director Bronagh Lagan
Set and Costume Designer Nik Corrall
Casting Director Jane Frisby
The show running time is approximately 1 hour and 25 minutes without an interval.
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To book please call 0844 412 4307 or go to www.oldredliontheatre.co.uk
