Lost Monsters (2022)
Performances: Tue 22nd – Sat 26th February 2022, Old Fire Station
Contents
Introduction
Three people arrive in what seems to be an abandoned house strangely located between the two carriageways of a motorway, but is it really abandoned?
Cast
- Mickey - Greg WIlliams
- Jonesy - David Clements
- Sian - Oriana Robos-Murray
- Richard - Chris Bennett
Crew
- Stage Manager - Fiona Daffern
- Assistant Stage Managers - Kay George & Rob Wallis
- Lighting Designer - Chas Doyle
- Sound Design - Adam Crook
- Operator - John Winters
- Assistant Director - Jess Osorio
- Set Design - Bryon Fear
- Rigging - Sean Thomas
- Set Construction - Chaz Doyle, John Winters, Hans Mudlamootoo, Dennis Fenton, Graham Clements, Caroline Doyle, Barry Heselden, Sean Thomas & The Cast.
- Make-up - Lily Ann Coleman
- Fight choreography - Martin Copland-Gray
- Props & Costumes - Cast & Crew
Reviews
Being invited to a dress rehearsal is a rare privilege. You get to see a production in all its messy glory when it’s at its most vulnerable. Dress rehearsals are often the time when the chinks in the show’s armour are exposed, the lines that are just out of reach of the actor’s memory and the cues that need closing down. All of these things were true of last night’s dress rehearsal of Lost Monsters, but there is something else that happens at a dress … A show is not a show until it has an audience in front of it and often a dress rehearsal is the first time a production gets to flex its muscles in front of fresh eyes and that’s when those magical sparks fly. And when they fly, boy do they fly! Each member of the cast revealed their characters and opened them up on stage beautifully, revealing their understanding and empathy for the characters they are portraying. There are moments that make you laugh and others that make you fight back the tears. And I have to say, the generosity and bond between the cast in itself was moving and it’s so great to see some old friends back treading the boards.
Lost Monsters is a complex and challenging world view of modern life squeezed into the microcosm of a single room (mostly) like insects kept in a jar by a child. Siobhán Campbell has created a show that captures the maelstrom of the internal and external struggles of four very different yet fascinating characters. The setting is rich in detail and believable (thank you Carole Ironside), Chaz Doyle’s lighting is on point & clever and the action is engaging, moving and often exhilarating.
Try to catch it if you can. If I could, I would see this show again.
Bryon Fear
Gallery
Reminiscences and Anecdotes
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See Also
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