road by JIM CARTWRIGHT

DIRECTED BY JULIAN KERRIDGE
3rd May - 1st June 2013

Wed - Sat 7.30pm  Sat 2pm & Sun 5pm

@ ACT 8-10 Rock Place, Brighton BN2 1PF
01273 818266      info@actbrighton.org
Buy tickets Award-winning Brighton Theatre Collective present this modern classic - 'Road' by Jim Cartwright.

It is 1987 and Margaret Thatcher has just been re-elected for a third term, bringing with her the hugely unpopular community charge. Unemployment rises above three million again. Race riots break out in Leeds. On Black Monday the Wall Street crash leads to 50 Million pounds being wiped off the London Stock Exchange. For the first time Acid house raves are held in the UK.
 
 At the Royal Court Theatre in London a brutal eloquent, angry play about life in a row of terraced houses in Lancashire is taking audiences and critics by storm.

In the course of one wild night, the drunken guide Scullery conducts a tour of his road. A surreal vision of the contemporary urban landscape - uncomfortable and magical, funny and bitter. It is a northern Under Milk Wood, high on pills and booze.

Voted Third best play of the decade - Time Out
Voted in the top fifty plays of all time - National Theatre

Directed by Julian Kerridge whose debut film Seamonsters starring Rita Tushingham was nominated Best Film at the Raindance Film Festival 2012 and won the Grand Jury Prize at the Nantes Film 2012.

Creative Team

    
 Cast:    
Sean Williams Kate Adler Jack Healy Guttmann
Janette Eddisford  Janice Cramer Martin Malone
 
Nicole Ollivere Martin Jenkins
 
 Production:

 
Lighting Design		 Mike Medway
  Lighting Operator Aidie Emmerson
  Set, Poster And Sound Design Julian Kerridge
  Stage Management Steffi-May Lynch
  Production Support  Frank McCabe
  Production  Daniel Finlay
  Director Julian Kerridge
 
Julian Kerridge
Julian began his professional career as an actor, performing with the RSC and Royal National Theatre and in numerous television series including CORONATION STREET (Granada), DANGERFIELD (BBC), THE JUMP and FAT FRIENDS (YTV). A 2008 directing graduate of the London Film School, Julian has just co-written and directed his first feature film. SEAMONSTERS was shot in spring 2010 and features a cast of new young talent alongside Rita Tushingham in her 47th film role. The film can be followed on Twitter@seamonstersfilm. Julian has three short films supported by the British council including his graduation film 'ALL DAY BREAKFAST screened at numerous festivals including Raindance and Eat our shorts at the BFI Southbank. He also recently directed the internet drama series CELIA AND CHLOE co-produced by Disney and seen by over three million people in seven countries.juliankerridge.com