Plays

Dusk Rings A Bell

31 August - 1 September 2011

Hightide in Association with Watford Palace Theatre Present

Dusk Rings A Bell

by Stephen Belber

Twenty-four years ago, the future was going to be different. Mol was going to be happy, older, smarter and married with kids. Ray was going to be a heart surgeon. When they meet again by chance – she divorced and childless, he a caretaker and gardener – they discover that their lives are even further from that future than they’d thought.

This is the European premiere production of Stephen Belber’s funny, poignant and heartbreaking play. Belber’s other credits
include the film Tape and the co-writing of The Laramie Project. This marks the Palace’s first collaboration with HighTide following its recent productions of Stovepipe (National/Bush, ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Sunday Times), Ditch (Old Vic Tunnels), and the Fringe First award-winning Lidless (Edinburgh Fringe & Trafalgar Studios).


£12.50

70 mins

Performed in “on-stage studio”


Direction
Steven Atkinson
Design 
takis
Lighting 
Matt Prentice
Sound 
Steven Mayo
Voice
John Tucker
Music 
Tom Mills
Casting 
Charlotte Bevan
Assistant Director
Rob Drummer

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Abi Titmuss - Molly

Abi's first stage role was in 2006 in Arthur Miller's "Two Way Mirror", for which she won the  'Best West End Debut' award from theatre critics.

Theatre work includes:"Fat Christ" (Kings Head, London), "The Spare Room Project", Gabby in Theatre Productions hugely successful UK Tour of ''The Naked Truth'', Lady Macbeth in "Macbeth" (Seagull Theatre, Lowestoft), Geraldine in “Stage Fright”, “Dolly DayDream”, Katherine in “Paradise Lost” at the Leicester Square theatre, “The Bad Fairy” in UK Productions Pantomime  “Sleeping Beauty” and Doris in “Same Time Next Year”.

Film work includes the feature films "Just For The Record" (Billy Murray, Adele Silva), "Do Elephant's Pray?" (Marc Warren) & "Frontman", also “Haunting”, “Mixed Up” & “The Paranormal Project”.

On tv: Hotel Babylon (BBC), We Are Mongrels (BBC), Barry from Watford (BBC), Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show (ITV) and “Up Close And Personal” (Talkback). Her many appearances on radio and television over the years include Hell's Kitchen, Love Island, Deadline & Come Dine With Me.

Abi has written columns for numerous magazines and published two successful books.

Abi had an exciting run for Bill Kenwright at last year’s Edinburgh Festival starring as Hazel in "Up and Under" before touring the show across the UK and she is delighted to be returning for her second year.

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Paul Blair - Ray

For HighTide: Lidless.

Theatre credits include: Caledonia (National Theatre of Scotland); Carthage Must Be Destroyed (Theatre Royal Bath); Realism (National Theatre of Scotland); The Tempest (Tron Theatre Company); Flight (Royal National Theatre); A Lie of the Mind, Macbeth, Scenes from an Execution (Dundee Rep); Anna Karenina (Royal Lyceum Theatre); East Coast Chicken Supper (Traverse Theatre Company).

Television credits include: The Day of the Triffids; Taggart; Dear Green Place; Sea of Souls; This Morning with Richard, Not Judy; Ruth Rendell Mysteries; Bumping the Odds; Ruffian Hearts; Takin’ Over the Asylum.

Film credits include: Clive Barker’s Book of Blood; Outpost; Hallam Foe; This Year’s Love.


"Pure poetic beauty that make this an 80 minutes well spent."

★ ★ ★ ★

WhatsonStage 

 

"Both Kingsley and Paul Blair play faultlessly"

The Times

 

"A finely-judged two-hander"

The Stage

 

"Belber's writing is wonderfully evocative"

BBC Radio Suffolk
 

"Superb script...exquisitely structured two-hander"

Herald Scotland

Read the full review here


Wed 31 Aug Free post-show Q&A in the auditorium


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