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Valparaiso
by Don DeLillo
"Use
Your Own Voice. Be Yourself.
Be Interesting. Keep Talking.
You Have To Keep Talking."
When
Michael Majeski sets out on an ordinary business trip, he
little suspects that the journey will change his life forever.
UK
and London Premiere
WHen.
Old Red Lion Theatre, London
25th April - 13th May 2006
The
Cast
Stephen
Chance - Michael Majeski
Cristina Gavin - Livia Majeski
Camilla Simson - Delfina Treadwell
Thomas Grube - Teddy Hodell
Lucy Cudden, Alex Gatehouse, Natasha Lee-Lewis
- Chorus
The
Creative Team
Jack McNamara - Director
Vali Mahlouji - Set Designer
Fiona Simpson - Lighting Designer
Jack C. Arnold - Sound Designer
Havva Mustafa - Costume Designer
Jenny Frost - Stage Manager
Erik Perera - Technical ASM
Don
DeLillo - Playwright
Born and raised
in New York City. He has written thirteen novels and three
stage plays and has won many honours in the US and abroad
including the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award
for Fiction and the Jerusalem Prize.
'Stephen
Chance is mesmerising as Michael, his cheeks seeming to
grow hollow with despair before your eyes. And the cast,
in Jack McNamara's production for Weaver Hughes Ensemble,
handles De Lillo's edgy, deadpan style with great assurance
and flair, managing in this tiny pub venue to create a snappy,
funny, deeply disturbing evening.'
Financial Times
'Extremely entertaining UK premiere...an energised and alert
reading of DeLillo's philosophically rigorous and scalpel-sharp
dialogue...superbly cast and played... an ultimately enlivening
evening'
Time Out Critics' Choice
'Under the slick action there's an increasing unease that
turns amateur celebrity into personal alienation, and which
JackMcNamara's cast catch in this fine British premiere.'
Reviewsgate.com
'One of the wittiest, most trenchant pieces of writing about
the information age so far penned for the theatre...this
British premiere of a 1999 play by American author Don DeLillo
is worth beating a path to.'
The Choice in The Daily Telegraph
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