Piquant idea, to open Oliver Cotton’s play about financial inequality in BBC Salary Embarrassment Week. While the inequity between multi-million popinjays and mere 149k losers in the weird world of showbiz is perhaps not especially worth angsting about, there were nice resonances.
DINNER – Southwark Playhouse
I only booked for Dessert at the Southwark Playhouse because of the extraordinary Alexandra Gilbreath, one of our finest – and somewhat unheralded – actors.
NEWS: Oliver Cotton & Jemma Redgrave star in Duet for One revival on tour
Following the premiere of his own play Dessert, which premieres this month at London’s Southwark Playhouse directed by Trevor Nunn, Oliver Cotton returns to tread the boards himself, starring opposite Jemma Redgrave in a new touring production of Tom Kempinski’s award-winning two-hander DUET FOR ONE.
NEWS: Oliver Cotton & Jemma Redgrave star in Duet for One revival on tour
Following the premiere of his own play Dessert, which premieres this month at London’s Southwark Playhouse directed by Trevor Nunn, Oliver Cotton returns to tread the boards himself, starring opposite Jemma Redgrave in a new touring production of Tom Kempinski’s award-winning two-hander DUET FOR ONE.
NEWS: Trevor Nunn and Oliver Cotton host Dessert at Southwark Playhouse
Following on from his success with Daytona at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, Oliver Cotton, has written a new play for our time, Dessert, at Southwark Playhouse from 12 July 2017 – 5 August 2017.