Southwark Playhouse : 20th July – 13th August, 2011

Tom Greaves for Rooster Productions and Ellie Collyer-Bristow and Jane Lesley for MokitaGrit Productions present FOUR NIGHTS IN KNARESBOROUGH by PAUL WEBB.

Little is known about the most famous assassins in British history. In 1170, four knights left the court of Henry II. Four days later Archbishop Thomas Becket lay brutally murdered in Canterbury Cathedral. The knights fled north, holed up in Knaresborough Castle as the country teetered on the brink of revolution, and waited there in secret for a year.

For an event that so dramatically altered British history much mystery still remains. Four Nights in Knaresborough explores just what might have happened on that day. What orders were really given to whom? Who stood to gain from the ‘accident’?

Set in a medieval world, full of dirt, sweat, blood and lust, part historical drama, part political thriller, part comedy – the play brings together these elements with a modern day sensibility which has more in common with Tarantino than Cadfael.

Originally produced in 1999 at the Tricycle Theatre, directed by Richard Wilson and starring Johnny Lee Miller, this newly revised version of the script by Hollywood scriptwriter Paul Webb will be premiered in Southwark – an area saturated in Becket history – for four weeks only.

Old Vic Tunnels : 10th June – 9th July, 2011

Theatre6 in association with MokitaGrit Productions

This double bill of Pulitzer Prize winning David Mamet’s classic plays, will be the inaugural performances in the brand new 120-seater space The Screening Room, within The Old Vic Tunnels.

West End regular and Olivier-nominated David Burt is Mr Happiness, the American agony uncle of Old Time Radio. Our host takes the audience on a journey, as Mr Happiness helps solve problems from letters across the country: some tragic, some funny, all of them compelling.

The Water Engine is a radio thriller where young inventor Charles Lang creates a machine so brilliant that it will change the world forever; an engine that runs on water. Looking only to protect his invention and provide a better life for his sister Rita, Charles must triumph over the life-threatening Oberman and his conglomerate to give this marvel to the world, but at what price.

These rarely performed works are by award winning American writer David Mamet, whose catalogue of plays include Speed-the-Plow, Glengarry Glen Ross and Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and films include The Untouchables, Wag the Dog and The Verdict.

Press

Off West End Nomination for David Burt as Mr Happiness

‘McGregor and cast tell this elegiac fable with impressive clarity.’ ****FOUR STARS
Time Out Critic’s Choice

‘THE current MUST SEE piece of theatre in London…..Theatre6 and MokitaGrit have produced here an INVENTIVE, VITAL piece of theatre that deserves to be seen. So GO AND SEE IT.’ FIVE STARS*****
Remotegoat

‘Just MAGNIFICENT. I implore you to see this show above any other.’ *****FIVE STARS
DramaTalk

‘The Old Vic Tunnels are a surprisingly good setting…..David Burt is simply SUPERB in this role.’ FOUR STARS ****
Spoonfed on Mr Happiness

‘Mr Happiness is a little gem of a piece’
Fringe Report

‘Both witty and poignant, set against an atmospheric backdrop.’
TheatreFix on The Water Engine

‘Beautifully evocative dramas’
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