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Home > Theatre > Let Sleeping Dogs lie-ven up your evening

Let Sleeping Dogs lie-ven up your evening

By Caroline King - January 21, 2012Posted in : Theatre

Drowning Fish Productions and The Impulse Company presents Sleeping DogsWhen: 31st January – 18th February 2012 (Tues – Sat 7.30pm, Sat 2.30pm, Sun 6.30pm)

Where: Barons Court Theatre, The Curtain’s Up, 28a Comeragh Road, London W14 9HR

£: 12 (10 concessions)

What is it?

Drowning Fish Productions and The Impulse Company present Sleeping Dogs by Brenda Gottsche.

Doctor Roz is Britain’s fastest-rising celebrity shrink.  Her radio show has ratings through the roof and her self-help books fly off the shelves.  She’s got a great marriage to Leo, who has just written a best-selling crime novel, and a teenage son whose idea of rebellion is to find Jesus.  All seems well until Leo’s past begins to catch up to him, and, faced with blackmail from an old Australian acquaintance, he has to decide whether the truth is really the best policy or if he should just let sleeping dogs lie.  Meanwhile, Roz’s carefully-crafted life begins to fall apart, first at home, then publicly on her radio show.

Sleeping Dogs is a sometimes funny, often moving play that asks the crucial question, ‘how much do we really know of one another?’

Brenda Gottsche, the playwright, divides her time between London and Sydney.  Her first play, The Fulham Jesus, debuted at Barons Court in 2003 and has been performed in the USA and in Australia.  Her production company is Drowning Fish Productions.

Co-producing is The Impulse Company, founded by Scott Williams to celebrate the work of actors, writers, and directors. Originally from California, Williams has directed the world over, including Measure for Measure at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Ancient History at Hong Kong’s Caught in the Act, and Five O’Clock Angel starring Nichola McAuliffe.

The cast includes Barbara Hatwell (Anthea Dixon in Brookside) and Gregory Cox (Arcadia, National Theatre).

More info: Phone the box office on 020 8932 4747 for tickets.  Read the review here.

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