THE CRUMPLE ZONE
moves to Waterloo East theatre
New Dates:
Tuesday 26th November to Sunday 22nd December
Press night stays the same:
Friday 29 November at 7.30pm
Jonny Davidson, Sinéad Donnelly, Nicholas Gauci, James Grimm, James Mackay
LAMBCO Productions today announces that The Crumple Zone by Buddy Thomas,
directed by Helen Bang will switch from the Stage Door Theatre in Drury Lane to
Waterloo East Theatre, Brad St, London SE1 8TN.
The production will now run from Tuesday 26th November to Sunday 22nd December.
Producer Richard Lambert said: “We are delighted to move the production to
Waterloo East Theatre with more performances and an increased seating capacity.”
The cast features Jonny Davidson, Sinéad Donnelly, Nicholas Gauci, James Grimm and James Mackay.
This hilarious Off-Broadway hit, set in a run-down apartment on Staten Island, centres on three roommates coming to a crisis during one frantic Christmas weekend. Terry, an out-of-work actor who can’t keep a job or get a date, spends his days swilling cheap vodka and playing referee to a messy love triangle. Extremely funny and deeply moving, The Crumple Zone is about staying together, breaking apart, and the things we lose along the way.
Jonny Davidson’s roles include Scrooge in A Christmas Carol and the title role in Agamemnon.
Sinéad Donnelly was Hortensia in the international tour of Matilda the Musical. She choreographed Go! The Musical (A New Musical) at the Camden Fringe Festival.
Nicholas Gauci was in Phaedra (National Theatre) and played Kamal in The Mother of Kamal at the Camden Fringe Festival.
James Grimm played Harry Houdini in The Vanishing Elephant (New Victory Theater, New York and Grand Opera House, Belfast).
James Mackay’s roles include Albert in the musical Fit For a King and Ollie in Bones.
Director Helen Bang
Costumes Janet Huckle
Technical Richard Lambert
Producer LAMBCO Productions
Graphic Design Steve Caplin
Photographer Peter Davies
Marketing Kaitlin Marino
Assistant to the director Peter Rae
Production Assistant Paulina Azimov
Buddy Thomas (Playwright)
Buddy Thomas is a widely produced playwright, and is the author of, among others, The Crumple Zone, which was an off-Broadway hit in the 2000-2001 season starring Mario Cantone. It has been produced around the world, with major U.S. productions in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and elsewhere, and foreign productions in Spain, Italy and the Netherlands. Devil Boys from Beyond premiered at the New York International Fringe Festival in 2009, where it won the FringeNYC Award for Outstanding Play and then went on to transfer to an off-Broadway run at New World Stages. The play was nominated for the 2010 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding New York Theatre, and for Best New Play by the Off-Broadway Alliance. Other plays include Physical and Spotlight. Mr. Thomas is also an agent at ICM Partners, where he he represents many internationally known writers, artists and estates.
Helen Bang (Director)
Helen Bang was most recently seen as Lady Susan Bloom this year in Don’t Take The Pith! having originated the role last year at the Drayton Arms in An Absolute Farce of a Murder Mystery. She also directed both productions. Other recent theatre includes Miss Twitterton in Brian Blessed’s production of Busman’s Honeymoon at The Mill at Sonning. She also notably played the title role in Edward Bond’s Dea, a role created for her by the recently departed playwright. During her long association with international theatre company TheatreLab she played Herodias in their interpretation of Wilde’s Salome, a production which toured internationally; Miss Haversham in Great Expectations; as well as roles in Medea, Jamaica Inn; The Oresteia and Dancing with the Devil at Sadler’s Wells. For English Rep theatre company she played Gertrude in Hamlet and Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit, and for Oxford Shakespeare Company, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Most recent screen appearances include The Nevers for HBO and Belgravia. As a director she is responsible for various projects for Canonbie Productions including their web series Gentrification and The Self-Tapers. She made her featurefilm directing debut with Quixotic, written by her husband Peter Rae.