Larry & Casting Shadows

LARRY
Keith Drinkel stars as Sir Laurence Olivier in this solo show that has been performed extensively in London, the UK & France. In a New York hotel room, Olivier prepares for his first day of filming on ‘Marathon Man’.

‘Director Daniel Finlay keeps the two-act play zipping along with a good mix of actorish humour & glimpses into a life well lived’. (The Stage)

CASTING SHADOWS
A rehearsed reading of the BBC Radio 4 play adapted by its author from his original full-length stage play. It’s 1962 & Max Miller & Terence Rattigan have been invited by Laurence Olivier to spend a summer’s afternoon in his Brighton beach hut. With Keith Drinkel as Olivier, Julien Ball as Rattigan & Trevor Littledale as Miller.

‘A barometer of mid-twentieth century British theatre’. (Time Out)

‘My father would have loved this play’. (Tamsin Olivier)

Part of:  Retrospective: A Week Of Plays About Theatre, Actors & Writers By Mark Burgess - 24th-28th October 2023