THE YOUNG ONES ADE
EDMONDSON AND NIGEL PLANER REUNITE FOR NEW STAGE COMEDY
Vulcan 7
Newcastle Theatre Royal
Monday 8th – Saturday 13th
October 2018
Stars of cult 80s TV comedy The Young Ones Ade Edmondson and Nigel
Planer will reunite on stage next month in a brand new comedy written by
themselves. Audiences can join the comic legends on the Icelandic wastelands
of Vulcan 7 for one week only at Newcastle Theatre Royal!
British
actor-comedians Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer rose to fame
playing iconic characters Vyvyan and Neil in the BRIT award-winning TV classic The
Young Ones and The Comic Strip Presents…and have performed together
in Filthy, Rich and Catflap and in the spoof band Bad News.
In their
latest comedy Vulcan 7 the long-time off-screen friends will co-star as
former drama students Gary Savage and Hugh Delavois, one a plodding actor, the
other a struggling Hollywood star, both in their 60s who are reunited on the
set of a fantasy movie.
Hugh has
landed the role of Vulcan’s butler and he's making his seventh film for the
franchise. Gary is a one-time Hollywood A-lister playing a guest monster with
four hours in make-up and one word in the script. Sparks fly inside the trailer
as old wounds are opened. Leela, a runner (played by Lois Chimimba), attempts
to keep the peace, but outside the trailer things are not going to plan either:
the director’s gone AWOL, the catering truck’s on the wrong side of a ravine,
and the volcanic activity is growing more lively by the minute…
Adrian
Edmondson (Gary Savage) is well known for his role in TV sitcom Bottom which
he wrote and starred in with Rik Mayall. Other television credits include Jonathan
Creek, Blackadder and the BBC adaptation of War & Peace. On
stage he has appeared in The Rocky Horror Show in the West End and Twelfth
Night at the RSC. Film credits include Captain Peavey in Star
Wars: The Last Jedi.
Nigel
Planer (Hugh Delavois) is an actor, comedian, novelist and playwright who has
worked extensively in the West End with leading roles in original productions Evita,
Chicago, We Will Rock You, Wicked, Hairspray, Feelgood and Charlie and
the Chocolate Factory for which he received an Olivier Award nomination.
Other credits include the spoof actor character Nicholas Craig and Doctor
Who: Live tour. He has been nominated for numerous awards and won
the BRIT award for Best Comedy Record in 1984 for his appearance in The
Young Ones.
Lois
Chimimba (Leela) has appeared with the National Theatre most recently in Common,
and previously Peter Pan and wonder.land. Other theatre credits
include Pitcairn with Shakespeare’s Globe and Chichester Festival
Theatre and Nightingale and Chase at the Royal Court. She has
appeared on television in the drama series Trust Me and on film in The
Proposal.
Vulcan 7 is written by Edmondson and
Planer and directed by Steven Marmion. It is presented by Jonathan Church
Productions and Theatre Royal Bath Productions in association with Yvonne
Arnaud Theatre.
Steven
Marmion (Director) is currently Artistic Director at Soho Theatre where he has
been at the helm since 2010. Productions include Only The Brave and the
award-winning Madam Butterfly’s Child and Mad Margaret’s
Revenge. He has directed workshops for the National Theatre, Hampstead
Theatre, Royal Court and the RSC with whom he is an Education Associate
Practitioner. Associate director credits include Rupert Goold's production
of Macbeth and its Broadway transfer.
Tickets:
Vulcan 7
is at Newcastle Theatre Royal between Monday 8 and Saturday 13
October 2018 at 7.30pm and matinees on Thursday at 2pm and Saturday at
2.30pm. Tickets from £14.50 can be purchased from the Theatre Royal Box
Office on 08448 11 21 21 (Calls
cost 7ppm plus your phone company’s access charge) or book online at www.theatreroyal.co.uk
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