The Last Cuckoo
The year is 2050 and the world has changed beyond all recognition.
In a decaying house on the edge of a desert Ethan Page, a down to earth former second-hand car salesman and pub quiz-master, attended by a girl who can’t or won’t speak, sifts through his personal memory archive in an attempt to make sense of his life and his forty year mission to memorise…
“…stuff that might be important…significant…of use to someone.”
Part ‘an audience with…’ part ‘pub quiz’ with a song and a smattering of horse racing wisdom, THE LAST CUCKOO is a theatrical tour de force, beautifully lyrical, poignant and darkly comic.
Julie Bokowiec’s playful and inventive stage play is stylishly directed by BAFTA nominated David Tucker (Lark Rise to Candleford & Where The Heart Is) and perfectly accented with a set by the award winning designer Charles Cusick Smith best known in the region for his exquisite designs for Northern Ballet Theatre.
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STARRING OLIVIER AWARD WINNING PAUL COPLEY AS ETHAN PAGE
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We are delighted to announce that the Laurence Olivier Award winning actor Paul Copley will be taking on the role of Ethan Page in The Last Cuckoo.
Paul recently appeared at The Gate starring in LULU directed by Anna Ledwich. Television credits include TORCHWOOD: CHILDREN OF MEN, GEORGE GENTLY, KINGDOM for Parallel Films/ITV1, CORONATION STREET, LIFE ON MARS, SHAMELESS and THE STREET. He was a series regular in three series of HORNBLOWER, both series of THE LAKES, both series of THIS LIFE, three series of CRACKER and QUEER AS FOLK. Film credits include JUDE, directed by Michael Winterbottom, and REMAINS OF THE DAY, directed by James Ivory. Theatre credits include KING LEAR, THE FRONTLINE, BREATHING CORPSES at the Royal Court, and SING YER HEART OUT FOR THE LADS at the National.
Paul won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a New Play for his role in John Wilson’s FOR KING AND COUNTRY. |
WITH OLIVIA VINALL AS SOPHIE
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We are also pleased to welcome OLIVIA VINALL (who will play Sophie) completing the cast of The Last Cuckoo.
Olivia recently played Juliet in Romeo and Juliet at the Leicester Square Theatre (Director Linnie Reedman). Here’s what Libby Purves had to say about her performance in The Sunday Times:
“…her Juliet is frankly wonderful. She actually looks 13 and, despite her mastery of the verse, she convincingly acts 13: an obedient child of privilege, shocked by her rush of feeling, capable of fragile craftiness and self-doubting recklessness, full of blooming, ragged, headlong love. Not a word or gesture was less than true.”
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