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You've
written a play. It runs successfully in the West End. But you don't
think it's quite right. What do you do?
Well
if you're Simon Gray, you re-write it of course!
Simon
Gray's "The Holy Terror" is a completely revised version
of his 1988 play Melon, which he now feels is more believable.
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| Simon
Callow as Mark Melon |
Currently
touring the UK prior to a West End opening in the spring, the production
is stopping off at Milton Keynes for one week only at the beginning
of March, starring Simon Callow and directed by Laurence Boswell.
A moving
and funny portrait of a flawed genius, the play follows a man into
and out of a breakdown. This journey is both passionate and absorbing,
but this modern morality play also shines with humour.
The
man in question is the arrogant, manipulative and cunning, 'Mark
Melon' (Simon Callow) who reigns supreme as king of the publishing
jungle, where nothing stops a good story and ever more profitable
book rights.
But
it's tough at the top, and when inner demons get hold, his fall
from grace is of majestic proportions.
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| Simon
Callow and Geraldine Alexander in The Holy Terror |
Simon
Callow has directed and starred in many West End productions, including
his recent successful "The Mystery of Charles Dickens"
and his numerous television and film credits include "Shakespeare
in Love", "Four Weddings and a Funeral", "Postcards
from the Edge", "Maurice", "A Room with a View"
and "Amadeus".
Simon
Gray is one of Britain's most prolific playwrights and authors.
His stage plays include "Butley", "Otherwise Engaged",
"Quartermaine's Terms", "The Common Pursuit"
and "The Late Middle Classes". His latest book, "The
Smoking Diaries", will be published this Spring.
The
production also stars Robin Soans as 'Gladstone', with Geraldine
Alexander, Beverley Klein, Tom Beard, Matt Canavan and Lydia Fox.
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