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Dateline: 19th November, 2006

Mark Ravenhill
Stuart Lee in What Would Judas Do?

Ravenhill and Lee at the Bush

The Bush's 2007 programme begins with a double bill of works by Mark Ravenhill and Stewart Lee, both performing their own monologue shows. They can be seen individually or together, playing at 7.30pm and 9pm respectively, and 3pm and 4.30pm on Saturday matinees.

Following its premiere at the Traverse at last year's Edinburgh Festival and a hugely successful international tour by Paines Plough, Mark Ravenhill's Product comes to The Bush for three and a half weeks. Product features Ravenhill himself playing a producer eager to pitch his action-adventure-romance movie about the spectre of terrorism to a potential leading lady, and marks his professional acting debut.

Product: World Remix is a substantially developed and extended version the piece and has been seen at Berlin's prestigious Schaubuhne Theatre among twenty other international theatre festivals throughout 2006. Now London audiences are finally given the chance to see this pitch black satire of the movie industry and our struggle to tell stories in a post 9/11 world.

In What Would Judas Do? Stewart Lee, stand-up comedian and director, will portray Judas, as he puts it, as a slightly overweight 38-year-old man much like himself, and invites us to experience the last week of Christ's life from his point of view. Judas is seen as a disappointed revolutionary, frustrated by the fact that Jesus turned out not to be the man he imagined. The betrayer of Christ attempts to justify his position as a man let down by someone he had idolised in this funny yet theologically thought-provoking comic monologue.

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