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Sarah
Lawrie for Mixed Up Theatre presents: TIMELESS Written
by Brian Coyle | Directed by Charlotte Peters | Starring John Rayment 13 & 14 October 2021 at 53Two, Arch 19, Watson Street, Manchester, M3 4LP
@TimelessPlay
| #Timeless | www.timelessplay.uk |
Martin has a problem, he can’t make new
memories.
He’s a cabbie with The Knowledge, but he can’t
remember yesterday.
A moving, funny and searching single-hander
written by Brian Coyle.
This production, co-produced by award-winning playwright
Brian Coyle (Best Script in Festival at the Page to Stage Festival in 2016 and
winner of the British Theatre Challenge in 2014) and performer John Rayment had
two short runs in 2018, at the Hen & Chickens and Theatre N16 under the
auspices of Mixed Up Theatre. Now it’s back, presented by Sarah Lawrie
(producer of Best New Play at the 2021 Off West End Awards, SCROUNGER).
Director Charlotte Peters directs for stage and screen with
recent theatre including THE MIRACLE WORKER (Chelmsford Civic Theatre), ALEXA,
CRY ME A DANCE (Ilkley Playhouse) and DANCE (King’s Head Theatre). She is
Associate Director on the National Theatre’s WAR HORSE and Stephen Daldry’s AN
INSPECTOR CALLS and is Artistic Director of theatre company Brickdust. Other
stage career highlights have included directing HOW LOVE IS SPELT (Southwark
Playhouse), NORMALITY (The Other Palace), CASTE (Finborough), THE MOUTH OF A
SHARK (Vaults Festival), the national tour of BIRDSONG (Birdsong Productions)
and TIMELESS (Camden Fringe/N16). Charlotte’s recent films include APOLLO 13:
THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, BILLY AND ME starring Jon Culshaw, and the
critically acclaimed award-winning BIRDSONG (all for Original Online), as well
as REASONS due for release next year (BFI). This winter, Charlotte is looking
forward to directing KING ARTHUR at Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury and the
interactive live-streamed PETER PAN for Panto Live. Twitter: @CharlottePeterz
Writer – Brian Coyle is a playwright and scriptwriter
originally from Scotland and now based in Bristol. His stage plays include
WELCOME TO PARADISE ROAD (EB Productions) performed in Liverpool and Manchester
in 2016. It won Best Script in Festival at the Page to Stage Theatre Festival.
His other plays include KING OF THE WORLD (EB Productions) performed in
Liverpool and Manchester in 2018; THE BOX performed at Theatre Royal, Bath; and
the multiple five-star reviewed TIMELESS (Mixed Up Theatre), performed in
London in 2018. He was shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Playwriting Award
twice, in 2015 and 2017. In 2014 he was one of the winners of the British
Theatre Challenge, an international one-act play competition. Brian also writes
radio and audio dramas. His radio play THE LOVE TEST was broadcast on BBC Radio
4 in February 2019 and a two-part audio-drama BABYWALL was released in 2020 by
Tempest Productions. Twitter: @brianscoyle
Performer John Rayment is an actor, based in Essex. His work
during the lockdowns and isolation has included the two-hander I DON’T DANCE by
Ron Fernee, for So & So Arts Club, filmed as part of their Capsule
Festival, and assorted roles in AVALON Volume 2 for Big Finish Productions.
Before the recent strangeness, he appeared in PROTEST for The Space’s first
“Two Fest” in 2020; CHEKHOV IN MOSCOW, also here at The Space, and two separate
productions of JOURNEY’S END (one national tour, in 2016, for Immersion
Theatre, the other, in 2017, resident in Ypres, Belgium). Twitter:
@johncrayment
Producer Sarah Lawrie has been making theatre since 2013.
Most recently she produced LEAVES at Jermyn Street Theatre, SCROUNGER by
Olivier-nominated playwright Athena Stevens at the Finborough Theatre (which
won Best New Play at the Off West End Awards 2021) and web series LATE NIGHT
STARING AT HIGH RES PIXELS. She is currently producing Arts Council England
funded LEAR ALONE – a one man reworking of King Lear mounted in partnership
with Crisis. Sarah is a founding member
and lead producer of And Tomorrow Theatre Company, whose inaugural production,
DEATH OF A HUNTER, premiered at the Finborough Theatre in 2018 and transferred
to The Other Place at the Brighton Fringe Festival. In 2019 she produced the
world premiere of David Pinner’s EDRED, THE VAMPYRE for The London Horror
Festival. Co-producing credits include MY ROMANTIC HISTORY (Old Red Lion), TREE
HOUSE (Brewhouse Theatre Taunton and touring), MADAME BOVARY (Hope Theatre) and
ORANGES & INK (Tristan Bates Theatre and touring), THE MARVELLOUS
ADVENTURES OF MARYSEACOLE (C Venues, Edinburgh Festival) and DAMAGED GOODS
(PlayMill Festival, The King’s Head. She was also associate producer on OPERA
IN THE CITY FESTIVAL 2017, and is the co-creator and sole producer of Rula
Lenska’s one woman show FROM DZIKOW TO WILLESDEN GREEN. Twitter: @La_Lawrie
Running Time: 60 minutes | Suitable for ages 12+
Company information
Written by Brian Coyle
Directed by Charlotte Peters
Produced by Sarah Lawrie
Stage Manager Matthew Radway
Cast
John Rayment
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