APOLOGIA by Alexi Kaye Campbell
Evening Standard **** Daily Telegraph **** Financial Times **** Sunday Times **** Sunday Express **** 'Alexi Kaye Campbell triumphs' IOS
Wed 17 Jun - Sat 18 Jul, 2009
Kristin Miller is an eminent and successful art historian. As a young mother, she followed her politics and vocation, storming Parisian barricades and moving to Florence. Her recent memoir secures her place in history but fails to mention her sons.
Her birthday should be a time of celebration but when her sons decide to deliver their own versions of the past, everyone must confront the cost of Kristin's commitment to her passions.
APOLOGIA is Alexi Kaye Campbell's second play, following his acclaimed debut The Pride (Laurence Olivier Award, Critics' Circle Award) which ran at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in November 2008.
APOLOGIA is presented with the support of the Peter Wolff Theatre Trust and Deliverance
What the papers say
'Entertaining, thought-provoking and touching.'
'Sharp, funny, wise and humane, Alexi Kaye Campbell is a writer to cherish.'
FOUR STARS
Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph
creatives
Direction - Josie Rourke
Design - Peter McKintosh
Lighting Design - Hartley T A Kemp
Sound Design - Emma Laxton
cast
Tom Beard
Paola Dionisotti
Sarah Goldberg
John Light
Nina Sosanya
Philip Voss
details
Signed Performance - 27 June 2.30pm
Audio Described performance - 30 June 7.30pm
Captioned performance - 1 July 7.30pm
Performance Times - All evening performances are now at 7.30pm and Saturday matinees at 2.30pm.
Press Night - 22 June 7pm
Price - £9.00-£15.00
'Raw and very funny...confirms [Alexi Kaye Campbell's] standing as a fresh and sensitive voice.'
'Paola Dionisotti is perfect as this hybrid of simpering scholarly harridan and repressed materfamilias.'
FOUR STARS
Henry Hitchings, Evening Standard