Fear and Misery: Times article

The Times has an interview with the writer Mark Ravenhill, where he discusses the forthcoming plays, Shoot / Get / Treasure / Repeat. It mentions the Royal Court run. 

...the London productions had no problem conscripting strong acting talent, including Harriet Walter, Deborah Findlay, Toby Jones, Lesley Manville, Joseph Millson, Joanna Riding and Amit Shah, as well as the director Max Stafford-Clark. So far, so simple.

A trickier challenge was recreating the sense of occasion that surrounded the Edinburgh shows without repeating the breakfast format. It was the artistic director of the Royal Court, Dominic Cooke, who came up with the idea of scattering the plays around a range of venues at different times of the day and night. “Dominic’s idea was that it should be a bit like Antony Gormley sculptures,” Ravenhill says. “They would pop up for a while, then disappear again.”

Some of the settings are more unusual than others. Cooke has chosen to stage one of the plays - a creepy two-hander about a child who wakes to find a headless soldier sitting on his bed - at midnight.

Joseph mentioned in his email today that he is really enjoying the Fear and Misery play; it is only 20 minutes yet is tricky to learn.