Brighton’s Matt Cotton will take the leading role in the Brighton Fringe Festival performance of The Dying Days of Tony Blair.
Matt is a creative and passionate actor who lives in Brighton. He studied at the prestigious Academy of Creative Training and is experienced in comedy, corporate videos, film, presenting, role play, theater and voice over.
Matt has previous experience of performing in the Brighton Fringe Festival. He starred in “Cock and Ale Inn 2″ which was voted ‘Best Comedy Show’ of the Brighton Fringe 2012.
This year’s role – as an ambitious young newspaper editor – is perfect for Matt as it allows him the scope to once again deliver a stunning comedy performance.
Matt plays Andrew Harding, a slick, well-connected national newspaper editor who has friends in high places. He’s also under pressure – a lot of pressure – to deliver the scoop of the year. When things start to go wrong he experiences something he’s never felt before – failure. And he doesn’t like it one bit.
Will Tony Blair resign? Will Andrew get his scoop on the story? Will the political forces in Westminster work for or against him?
Tickets are selling fast and the venue – Hove Town Hall – only has 25% of seats left. You can purchase tickets from the Fringe website by following this link: BOOK TICKETS HERE.
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It’s approaching the 10th May 2007. Tony Blair is expected to announce his resignation. But behind the scenes he’s having second thoughts. Late at night in his office a hard-nosed journalist suddenly finds himself in the middle of the storm. What’s the truth? Can he follow the power struggle? Is it true Blair won’t go? Will the PM really resign as planned?
“a laugh out loud joyride through the last crucial hours of the Blair administration”
The play, written by Brighton writer Christopher Henry, is premiering at the Brighton Fringe Festival on 9th May 2013 in Hove Town Hall. Based on real revelations from writers of this period, as well as a huge dose of imagination and humour, it is being performed exactly six years to the day when Tony Blair announced to the world that he was resigning as Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party.
The one-man show uses real-time multi-media to include a whole cast of characters from those tense and unsettling days – including Gordon Brown and Cherie Blair. Thanks to modern technology a full supporting cast of faces make appearances – each trying to mold events to their own personal gain.
We all know that Blair had promised to Brown that he would stand aside, and this play imagines what went on behind the scenes in the very last hours of his premiership.
To capture the essence of this political drama the play will be set in the unique setting of Hove Town Hall Committee Room 1.
WILL HE STAY – OR WILL HE GO? 9th May 2013.
“how the pursuit of power can be at once serious and yet terribly funny”
W: http://damnhardwriting.com/
T: @DyingDaysBlair
Tickets: http://bit.ly/Y1LFl8
A: Hove Town Hall, Committee Room 1, Norton Rd, Hove BN3 4AH
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It’s approaching the 10th May 2007. Tony Blair is expected to announce his resignation. But behind the scenes he’s having second thoughts.
Late at night in his office a hard-nosed journalist suddenly finds himself in the middle of the storm. What’s the truth? Can he follow the power struggle? Is it true Blair won’t go?
Based on real revelations from writers of this period, as well as a huge dose of imagination and humour, this is an hilarious play written and produced by Brighton based writer Chris Henry.
Inital reactions to the development of the play have been ecstatic at its ability to blend realism with fiction, as well as the creative use of multi-media integrated in the storyline.
The play uses real-time multi-media to make a one-man show appear populated with a whole cast of characters – including Gordon Brown and Cherie Blair. Thanks to modern technology a full supporting cast of faces make appearances – each trying to mold events to their own personal gain.
This satirical account is a “laugh out loud joyride through the last crucial hours of the Blair administration,” said Acting Coach Graham Brass. “You can tell the writer has done his research on the actual events but there is also an added sparkle – a cheeky glint in the eye, which highlights how the pursuit of power can be at once serious and yet terribly funny,” said news journalist Polly Walker.
The play will make its World Premier during the Brighton Fringe Festival on the 9th May 2013 – exactly six years to the day that the real Tony Blair announced he was stepping down as leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister.
To capture the essence of this political drama the play will be set in the unique setting of Hove Town Hall Committee Room 1.
WILL HE STAY – OR WILL HE GO?
Tickets are available now from the Brighton Fringe website: brightonfringe.org, or 01273 917272 priced £8. Seating is very limited in this historic and distinctive venue, so don’t miss out.
Join the fun on Twitter: @DyingDaysBlair
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