New Play By Debut Playwright At The Finborough Theatre

"When I looked up, I saw him. Burnt orange, bright against the summer woods. He stood grandly on all fours, the King."

Award winning director Hannah Price directs the world premiere of new playwright Titas Halder's debut play, Run The Beast Down, opening at the Finborough Theatre for a four week limited season on Tuesday, 31 January 2017 (Press Nights: Thursday, 2 February and Friday, 3 February 2017 at 7.30pm).

Charlie has stopped sleeping. His neighbour's cat has been dismembered. And worse, he's being haunted by an urban fox. In a haze of neon-soaked insomnia, lines blur between reality and fantasy. What are they up to? Whatever it is, it's big. The mystery twists its way towards a dead rabbit, a city in flames and a Kendal mint cake fuelled murderous showdown.

An exhilarating theatrical journey performed with a live electronic score, Run The Beast Down is a boundary-pushing hybrid piece of theatre and music, combining elements of storytelling, dark comedy and magical realism with a pulsing soundtrack.

Run The Beast Down is Titas Halder's first full length play and has been developed under the ROAR! New Writing Project at the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury. It will be directed by Hannah Price, founder of Theatre Uncut and director of the critically acclaimed Boa (Trafalgar Studios), starring Dame Harriet Walter and Guy Paul.

Run The Beast Down has been developed under the Marlowe Theatre's ROAR! Project for New Writing and will also play at the Marlowe Theatre Studio Space from 24 January-28 January 2017.

Playwright Titas Halder is a writer, director and musician working across theatre, film and music. Titas trained under directors Michael Grandage, Jamie Lloyd, David Leveaux, Indhu Rubasingham, on the Donmar Warehouse Resident Assistant Director Scheme, on the Finborough Theatre Resident Director Programme, the National Theatre Studio Directors' Course and The Royal Court Theatre Young Writers' Programme. Writing includes Not Cricket (Paines Plough, Southbank Centre and Ventnor Festival), Replica (Nabokov Theatre Company) and Feeding Me (Paines Plough). Titas has previously been the Associate Director of the Tricycle Theatre, Resident Assistant Director of the Donmar Warehouse, Creative Associate of the Bush Theatre and a Resident Assistant Director and Literary Associate of the Finborough Theatre. He is currently Artistic Associate of The Other Room, Cardiff. His second play Escape The Scaffold will be produced at The Other Room in Spring 2017.

Director Hannah Price is an award winning theatre director and filmmaker, Co-Artistic Director and Founder of Theatre Uncut. Theatre includes TEST (Scala Theatre, Switzerland), The Dead Monkey (Park Theatre), Boa (Trafalgar Studios) Cello/Fragile (Yard Theatre), Call to Prayer (Southwark Playhouse), Bud Take the Wheel, I Feel a Song Coming On (Shaw Theatre and Edinburgh Festival), That Moment (King's Head Theatre, Edinburgh Festival and National Tour), In a Very Real Sense (Soho Theatre), Portmanteau (Arcola Theatre and BikeShed Theatre, Exeter) and Loving Ophelia (Pleasance London). For Theatre Uncut, Hannah has directed In Opposition (Paines Plough Roundabout), Knowledge is Power: Knowledge is Change (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, Òran Mór, Glasgow, Soho Theatre, Brighton Dome, Bristol Old Vic, Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, and Everyman Theatre, Liverpool), Referendum Plays (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh), TU Istanbul: Power and Protest (Dot Tiyatro Istanbul, Istanbul International Theatre Festival), TU 2013: The Rise of the Right (The Young Vic) and The Cuts Plays (Southwark Playhouse, Soho Theatre and Latitude Festival). Hannah has won two Fringe First awards, a Herald's Angel award and the Spirit of the Fringe Award for her work with Theatre Uncut. She was Resident Assistant Director at the Donmar Warehouse in 2012 and toured to New York with the all-female Julius Caesar at St. Ann's Warehouse in 2013, and was Associate Director on The Machine (Manchester International Festival and The Armory, New York) and Good Canary (Rose Theatre, Kingston).

Finborough Theatre, 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED
Box Office 0844 847 1652 Book online at www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk

Tuesday, 31 January - Saturday, 25 February 2017
Tuesday to Saturday evenings at 7.30pm. Sunday matinees at 3.00pm. Saturday matinees at 3.00pm (from 11 February 2017).
Prices until 12 February 2017 - Tickets £16, £14 concessions, except Tuesday evenings £14 all seats, and Friday and Saturday evenings £16 all seats. Previews (31 January and 1 February) £12 all seats.
£10 tickets for Under 30s for performances from Tuesday to Sunday of the first week when booked online only.
£12 tickets for residents of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea on Saturday, 4 February 2017 when booked online only.
Prices from 14 February 2017 - Tickets £18, £16 concessions, except Tuesday evenings £16 all seats, and Friday and Saturday evenings £18 all seats.
Group Bookings - 1 free ticket for every 10 tickets booked.
Performance Length: Approximately 70 minutes with no interval.

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