Dark, funny and featuring the music of the Kinks, "Under Electric Candlelight" is an existential tragicomedy following an unnamed young nurse who is traumatised after dealing with a particularly gruesome death in A&E. He forms a strong bond with a blunt and brutally logical middle-aged woman called Lola who struggles to help him find a reason to stay alive.Will Pattle is a London-born actor, writer, rapper and graduate of the BRIT school. He has acted in film, TV and theatre and in many OVO productions at The Maltings Theatre and The Roman Theatre.Alice Briganti is a writer from Florence, Italy. She recently completed her MA in Shakespeare Studies at Goldsmiths. She co-wrote her debut play, The Removal Service, with Will Pattle.Luke Adamson is the Artistic Director of The Bridge House Theatre and an award nominated actor, writer and director.Press on Pattle & Briganti's previous play The Removal ServiceA remarkable piece of writing", "Much of the success of the staging is due to Luke Adamsons direction"LondonTheatre1 Promising new writing The StageContains very strong language, adult themes and content that some may find upsetting.
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Cast and Creative Team for Under Electric Candlelight at The Bridge House Theatre
Cast
Will Pattle
Stranger
Will Pattle is a London-born actor, writer, rapper and graduate of the BRIT school. He has acted in film, TV and theatre and in many OVO productions at The Maltings Theatre and The Roman Theatre.
Emma Wright
Lola
Tom Isted
Damien/Various
Under Electric Candlelight will be Tom's debut at both The Maltings and Bridge House theatres. Tom trained at ALRA, where he first worked with the show's director Luke Adamson. He has worked many times with Northern Stage, Newcastle, coming up through their various residency programmes. Some of Tom's recent theatre credits include: The Fancy Man (Chesterfield Pomegranate), Lost Boys (Unity Theatre, Liverpool), The Inheritance (Noel Coward Theatre) and Julius Caesar (Courtyard Theatre)
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