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COLLABORATORS


Rich Toynton and Paul Campion in BLT's November 2014 production of 'Collaborators', directed by Mike Savill.

Rich Toynton and Paul Campion in BLT’s November 2014 production of ‘Collaborators’, directed by Mike Savill.

Fri 7 – Sat 15 November (not Sun 9)

Collaborators

by John Hodge

Directed by Mike Savill

If you love your comedies dark, clever and razor-sharp funny, Collaborators is the play for you. Set against a super-stylised background of truth and paranoia, playwright Mikhail Bulgakov develops a bad case of writer’s block when he’s commissioned by the secret police to write a play about Stalin in honour of the tyrant’s 60th birthday. However, help is at hand when the dictator himself decides to help out in the writing of the play – and Bulgakov takes over the running of the Soviet Union!

First performed at the National in 2012 with Alex Jennings and Simon Russell Beale, this surreal, theatrical, stylish, caviar-black comedy is a brilliant piece of total theatre!

collaboratorsCAST:
General Secretary of Turkmenistan All-Union Communist Party/ Driver : Mike Baker
Actor/Chorus : Charis Anna Beyer
Yelena : Julie Binysh
Stalin : Paul Campion
Grigory : Kyle Cluett
Stepan : Tom Dignum
Sergei : Joe Dominic
Eva/Chorus : Roxana Graves
Vassily : Paul Green
Mrs. General Secretary of Turkmenistan All-Union Communist Party/ Lagrange/Chorus : Jan Greenhough
Nurse/Chorus : Hazal Han
Vladimir : Stevie Hughes
Actor/Chorus  : Jessica-Ann Jenner
Anna : Jaimi Keemer
Praskovya : Karen O’Neill
Moliere : Mike Savill
Bulgakov : Richard Toynton
Doctor/Chorus : Peter Yolland