Slipping

 

Original Idea, Written by Lynne Harvey

 

 

Slipping is about a man who realises he never was going to be a top class cricketer. However this realisation at 51, has come far too late for him, his team mates and his family. 

 

Slipping is set in a parochial cricket pavilion in winter; the closed season, but to Nick, a match is about to start, the match he trained all his life for.

 

When England, England Lions, Derbyshire or Yorkshire Cricket teams are playing there will be live rolling scores in the box below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JIM KELLY  (Civvie)

 

Civvie is a groundsman, a man that only shows two sides of himself, the  joker and the amenable friendly chappie. Civvie is very uncomfortable around men showing any emotion. It is Civvie who finds Nick on the verge of a breakdown.

 

Jim has appeared in numerous theatre, film and TV productions since 2004;

 

2010; John, Blue Remembered Hills, New Century Theatre Company; Pantaloon, A Servant to Two Masters, New Century Theatre Company;   Football Fan, VictorChandler.com advert, The Mob Film Company;     Jacobus Fiennes/ Tour Guide, Precious Jewel, Nobody’s Perfect Theatre Co., Rob Smallman, Almost Human,  Nobody’s Perfect Theatre Co., 1885 Croupier, Hustle, BBC TV; Declan Gillen, Doctors, BBC TV; Pig/Lumberjack, Red Riding Hood, Rat-a-tat-tat Theatre (festival); Pirate Theatre (festival), Portal, Rat-a-tat-tat Theatre; Harry/Man/Husband/ Julian, Mixed Doubles, Rat-a-tat-tat Theatre; BillyBoy/Deltoid/Joe/ Minister/F.Alexander, A Clockwork Orange, Cable Tie Theatre Company;  James (Film Short), The Prodigal Son, TCB Productions; Ray (Film Feature) Tramlines, Livid Film; Bunny (Film (short), Meet & Greet, Oranges & Cigarettes Productions...     

 

 

Slipping is being filmed at the Willey Wanderers Cricket Club in Broseley, Shropshire.

 

 

Nick - actor and details to be announced.

 

MARK SEWELL, Camera 

(Full details and cv under Mark Sewell)

 

 

https://www.ecb.co.uk/twelfthman/ This is a link to the twelfth man, the fantastic website for cricket fans.

 

 

FRASER GRANT, Director

 

Fraser studied French at Edinburgh University and trained as a director at Drama Studio London. After five years as artistic director of the Drayton Court Theatre Company, he went on to become head of Music Theatre at The London College of Music and Media as well as Head of Drama at the Junior College. He is now Head of Drama at Harvington School in Ealing coupling this with a continuing career in professional Opera and Music Theatre directing.

Opera Work includes La Traviata, Carmen, Tosca, The Pearl Fishers, Le Nozze di Figaro, La Cenerentola, Don Giovanni, La Boheme, Madame Butterfly, Fidelio, Rigoletto , Die Fledermaus and The Magic Flute for First Act Opera, Cosi Fan Tutte, le Nozze di Figaro, Eugene Onegin, L’Elisir d’Amore and Il Barbiere di Siviglia for Oyster Opera, Eight Songs for a Mad King for Solaris Music Theatre at the Purcell Room, Lucia di Lammermoor, The Mikado, Dido and Aeneas, La Cenerentola,The Marriage of Figaro, The Pirates of Penzance and The Magic Flute for Opera South East and The Magic Flute for Music Theatre Kernow.

At LCCM fraser has directed students in productions of Hansel and Gretel, Days of Hope, The Soldier’s Tale, Weill Women and Shaken Not Stirred (a new musical written in collaboration with composing students).

More recently he directed his own updated translation of Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. He recently adapted and directed a production of Carmen for the Unicorn Theatre using a mix of professional singers and children from local schools.

As a Theatre Director he has directed many productions including A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, Abigail’s Party, The Wanderer, Broken Glass, The Importance of Being Earnest and The Threepenny Opera. He directed the Scottish premiere of Sondheim's Into The Woods and has won several awards for Best Production on the Edinburgh Fringe. His collaboration with playwright Lynne Harvey includes world premieres of The Jingo Drill, C, Laugh Out Loud and Something For The Grown Ups. He also works in Italy where he has directed touring productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, Twist and Shout - The Beatles' Story, Jekyll and Hyde, Romeo and Juliet, The Blues Brothers, Hamlet and A Christmas Carol.

Recent projects include: 2 productions of La Traviata, Cosi Fan Tutte, The Merry Widow and a spectacular for the staff of Lloyds TSB starring their chief executives and double bill of Cavalleria Rusticana and Gianni Schicchi for Opera South East.

EMMETT PATEL, Editor (awaiting photo)