Evenings at 7.45 Tuesday 21st - Saturday 25th February
Matinée at 3.00 Saturday 25th February
The Tower Theatre performing at the Bridewell Theatre, off Fleet Street
There will be a Q & A session with the director and cast after the show on Thursday 23rd February
With more revelations every week about Fleet Street's phone-hacking scandal, this is the perfect time for a play about tabloid
hacks with the scent of a story in their nostrils.
This sharply witty redtop newspaper piece from the writer of the Tower's 2010 production of Whipping it Up takes place in real time
(a large clock on the newsroom wall is set to 6 p.m. at curtain up), intensifying the pressure of the looming deadline to get the paper out.
And it's not just funny: behind the play's humour sit some important questions about public interest and the balance between freedom
of the press and the right to privacy.
Photography by Alexander Knapp
"Sharp, slick, cynical and howlingly funny .. a modern The Front Page with balls. I haven't
laughed so much or so loudly in the theatre for a long time" - The Guardian
"One of the most gripping and plausible newspaper dramas I have ever seen" - Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph
"Hilarious. Thompson's razor-sharp lines shoot from one side of the room to the other. A great night out" - Tribune
Cast :
Howard : Ian Hoare
Lister : Julian Farrance
Bas : Dom Ward
Abigail : Jennifer Quinn
Director : Martin South
Set Design : Wendy Parry
Lighting Design : Rob Irvine
Sound Design : Ruth Sullivan
Assistant Director/ Stage Manager : Michael Bettell
Ian Hoare's acting career began at the age of 13, playing the storm in King Lear. Forty years on he
joined the Tower where he has, for the most part, performed on a somewhat smaller scale. His favourite roles have been Otto in The
Diary of Anne Frank, Rev. Parris in The Crucible and most recently Lord Cecil in 5/11 - his 16th production with
the company. A journalist and lecturer by trade, Ian lives in Holloway within easy walking distance of the greatest football
team the world has ever seen.
Julian Farrance has had a fantastic (some would say lucky) run of casting over the last three years, with roles in
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bottom), Dinner (Lars), The Real Inspector Hound (Moon), That Joke isn't
Funny Any More (Jimmy), Blithe Spirit (Charles), Road (Skullery) and Romeo and Juliet
(Friar Lawrence). Damages is his second production with the Tower; his first was 5/11.
Dom Ward joined the Tower by accident, having been press-ganged into a production of The Entertainer
in 2001. Having briefly cornered the market in romantic juveniles with roles in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Hot
Mikado and Guys and Dolls, Dom went off to train at Mountview Academy. Since then he's broadened his range, playing
everything from the Devil (Brimstone and Treacle) to (the front half of) a pantomime horse. Tower members will also have seen
Dom in The Birthday Party, the small but beautifully formed The Last Five Years, Smells of Wee and
The Doll's House. Dom made his directorial debut for the Tower with last October's spooky Darker Shores at St. Leonard's Church.
Jennifer Quinn studied acting at the Lee
Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, New York, where she performed in I Am A Camera, Damages, and Boy's
Life. In London, she has worked on radio, short films and most recently performed in Jake's Women for the Tower. She joined
in September 2010 - this will be her third production with the company.
Ian Hoare's acting career began at the age of 13, playing the storm in King Lear. Forty years on he
joined the Tower where he has, for the most part, performed on a somewhat smaller scale. His favourite roles have been Otto in The
Diary of Anne Frank, Rev. Parris in The Crucible and most recently Lord Cecil in 5/11 - his 16th production with
the company. A journalist and lecturer by trade, Ian lives in Holloway within easy walking distance of the greatest football
team the world has ever seen.
Julian Farrance has had a fantastic (some would say lucky) run of casting over the last three years, with roles in
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bottom), Dinner (Lars), The Real Inspector Hound (Moon), That Joke isn't
Funny Any More (Jimmy), Blithe Spirit (Charles), Road (Skullery) and Romeo and Juliet
(Friar Lawrence). Damages is his second production with the Tower; his first was 5/11.
Dom Ward joined the Tower by accident, having been press-ganged into a production of The Entertainer
in 2001. Having briefly cornered the market in romantic juveniles with roles in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Hot
Mikado and Guys and Dolls, Dom went off to train at Mountview Academy. Since then he's broadened his range, playing
everything from the Devil (Brimstone and Treacle) to (the front half of) a pantomime horse. Tower members will also have seen
Dom in The Birthday Party, the small but beautifully formed The Last Five Years, Smells of Wee and
The Doll's House. Dom made his directorial debut for the Tower with last October's spooky Darker Shores at St. Leonard's Church.
Jennifer Quinn studied acting at the Lee
Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, New York, where she performed in I Am A Camera, Damages, and Boy's
Life. In London, she has worked on radio, short films and most recently performed in Jake's Women for the Tower. She joined
in September 2010 - this will be her third production with the company.