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Dateline: 11th May, 2007
Two highly unlikely actors are to appear in two little known and rarely performed one-act plays by Samuel Beckett, at the Arts Theatre from Tuesday10th to Sunday 15th July. They are Steve Harley of rock band Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel and record producer (The Fall, Emmerson, Lake and Palmer and The Specials) Mike Bennett. Rough for Theatre I & II are a pair of tragi-comedies that embrace suitably unlikely themes: in the first play a blind man and a cripple are brought together purely by circumstance and in the second a pair of bureaucrats decide the fate of an anonymous third party. They will be directed by Gari Jones, who has worked at the National Theatre, Almeida and the West End, and designed by Sara Perks with lighting design by Linda Edwards. Steve Harley is best known as front man with Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel. Their 1975 single Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me), reached Number 1 in the UK and many European countries and is regularly voted among the top singles in the history of the charts. The Performing Rights Society has confirmed it one of the most played records in British broadcasting. During the 1980s, he took time out from the rock world and turned to acting, starring as 16th-century playwright Christopher Marlowe in the musical-drama Marlowe, which ran off-Broadway and in London. Harley and his band continue to tour regularly, playing up to 100 concerts a years. In recent times, Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel have played Glastonbury Festival three times, the Isle of Wight festival in 2004 and many of Europe's major rock festivals. Mike Bennett's theatre credits include playing Tumnus in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Sadlers Wells); Autolicus in Winter's Tale (Bloombsbury Theatre); Billy in Billy Liar (Harlow Playhouse); Fe in Poles Apart (Mermaid,) as well as seasons at the Sheffield Crucible, Derby Playhouse and Cheltenham Everyman. As well as writing material for Frankie Howerd and The Muppets, his numerous plays and musicals include Safety in Numbers (Arts Theatre), Sharp Practice (Wimbledon Theatre), Seaside Romp (Blackpool Grand) and the musical All Cloned Up (Kings Head/Bloombsbury). Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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