Matt Wilde will direct Peter McDonald in the European premiere of Adam Rapp's one man play, Nocturne. Performances of Nocturne are 16, 17, 18 (press performance), 19, 23, 24, 25 and 26 July at 7.30pm and 26 July at 3pm. Tickets are £20, £15 and £6. For Nocturne Wilde will collaborate with composer Phillip Neil Martin – most recently Music Creator in Residence at the Royal College of Fashion. The Almeida Theatre production of Nocturne will be presented at the Traverse Theatre as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe following its run in Islington.
Rapp's keen eye for human relationships and his deft ear for language makes for a shocking exploration of the accidental killing of a little girl by her teenage brother. Across the decade and a half that follows the teenager becomes a man, and tries to cope with the ramifications of his guilt and the estrangement of his surviving family, while making a desperate search for redemption.Peter McDonald was most recently on stage in James McDonald's production of Glengarry Glen Ross at the Apollo Theatre. His other theatre credits include Exiles and The Aristocrats for The National Theatre, Resurrection Blues for the Old Vic, Days of Wine and Roses and A Lie of the Mind for the Donmar Warehouse, The Lieutenant of Inishmore at the Garrick Theatre and The Wexford Trilogy for the Tricycle Theatre. His television credits include The Family Man, Sea of Souls, The Plot to Kill Hitler, Green Wing and Spooks. His film credits include Nora, I Went Down, Saltwater (for which he won best actor at the Irish Film and Television Awards), The Henchman's Tales, Felicia's Journey and November Afternoon.Photos by Helen Warner.
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