WICA Show Information

COLD READ/STAGE READ
with Tom Churchill

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May 13
Two Birds and a Stone
by Amy Wheeler

Set in a war-damaged contemporary country, Two Birds underlines startling realism with lyrical grace and a dream-like power to bring us inside the lives of several characters pushed to the limits of endurance by state-sanctioned violence.

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April 15
Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell
by Keith Waterhouse

"Bernard" is about real-life journalist Jeffrey Bernard who was still alive at the time the play was first performed in the West End in 1989.

Cold Read is proud to have Don Wilkins reading the title role, and welcomes Judith Adams, Suzanne Kelman, Brian Plebanek and Dave Mayer.

Bernard wrote the "Low Life" column in The Spectator. The play's title refers to the magazine's habit of printing a one-line apology on a blank page when he was too drunk or hung-over to produce the required copy and a substitute article could not be found before the deadline for publication. Its premise is that Bernard has found himself locked in overnight at his favourite public house and uses the occasion to share anecdotes from his life with the audience.

Often remembered as a one-man show but in fact packed with characters performed by a versatile supporting cast of four, Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell was a highly successful vehicle for its original star Peter O'Toole, who appeared in the first run at the Apollo Theatre and in a later revival at the Old Vic. The Old Vic run was totally sold out and on August 23rd, 1999, the London Evening Standard published a 'Bluffer's Guide' to enable readers to pretend they had seen it: "thereby allowing dinner party conversations and watercooler debates to run their course unhindered by ignorance."

To learn more about Mr. Bernard, please click HERE.

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February 12
Antony and Cleopatra
by William Shakespeare
Session #1

March 18
Antony and Cleopatra
by William Shakespeare
Session #2

For more information about the play, please click HERE.

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January 15
Franklin and Figaro
a new play by Kristina Sutherland

Set in 1776, Franklin and Figaro begins with Benjamin Franklin's legendary arrival in France . Lauded for his exploits in physics, philosophy, and philandering, Franklin trigged a wave of whispers, shrieks, and sighs especially among the upper-crust society of Madame Du Deffand's salon. This action-packed (and mostly true) story follows the high stakes adventures of Pierre Beaumarchais, the Parisian playwright who The Marriage of Figaro and The Barber of Seville. As the aging Madame Du Deffand fights for control of her changing world, young upstart Pierre Beaumarchais runs guns for Franklin 's American Revolution in the pursuit of liberté, fraternité, and cold hard cash!

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November 20, 2007
Inspecting Carol
by Dan Sullivan and Seattle Repertory Theatre

A Christmas Carol meets The Government Inspector meets Noises Off in this hilarious hit from Seattle . A man who asks to audition at a small theatre is mistaken for an informer for the National Endowment for the Arts.

Everyone caters to the bewildered wannabe actor and he is given a role in the current production, A Christmas Carol.

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October 16, 2007
A View from the Bridge
by Arthur Miller

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