No Hobbits in this play, but an equally unexpected
hero!
Waiting for Gandalf
Durham Assembly
Rooms Theatre
Saturday
5th May
2018
Written by Adrian Marks
Directed by Patrick Sandford
From an original production directed
by Teresa Hagger
Over
the past two years the enterprising and imaginative Brighton based charity
Mankind has been establishing a reputation for presenting lively, provocative
theatre at the Brighton Fringe: GROOMED (2016), BLOOMING and BETWEEN YOU AND ME
(2017). This year the emphasis, despite the title of Adrian Marks’ play, moves
far from Hobbits, onto the hidden hero inside all of us - however ordinary we
may feel. Vulnerable, plucky….the hero emerges in ways startling, comic and
profoundly human.
Meet
Kevin Brook, self-confessed fanatic of all things 'Lord of the Rings'. On the
evening before Gandalf is to sign copies of the brand new Movie Companion
to 'The Two Towers', Kevin is first in the queue outside the bookshop, eagerly
waiting.
But
in the deep of the night the thrilling fantasy characters soon give way to the
all too real people in his own memory - friends who don't understand him,
family who never had time for him.
What's
the real reason for his obsession with the kindly wizard? A disturbing truth is
about to be revealed, and with it the chance for Kevin to find the way clear to
a more optimistic future….. Will he seize the opportunity? Can we, watching,
support him?
Adrian
Marks’ wry and sensitive writing is matched by the gentle quirkiness of Chris
Neville-Smith’s stage presence…. but is this a disguise for something
infinitely more complex?
Maybe
our whole idea of what it means to be male and heroic will be subtly, even
inspiringly challenged!
“Dark-as-hell”
(Fringe
Guru)
*****
(Albie Media)
****
(Broadway Baby)
On The Web:
Twitter: @MankindCharity
Website: www.mkcharity.org
Tickets:
There will be a preview of Waiting for Gandalf
at The Assembly Rooms, Durham on Saturday 5th May at 7.30 p.m.
Tickets are available on the door or online from the Assembly Rooms.
Waiting for Gandalf
will be at Sweet Werks, (Brighton Fringe Venue 18), 14 - 20 May at
18:00 [75mins including after show Q&A]. Tickets: £8.00 / £6.00.
Brighton
Fringe Web Link: http://www.brightonfringe.org/
Sweet
Venues Web Link: https://sw.tickets.red61.com/
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