Giant Olive Theatre Company presents: 
| | by Sarah Henley
Directed by Gill Foley 27 April – 22 May
Tuesday – Saturday 7.30pm
Sunday Matinee - 3.30pm Bookings: Tickets: £12/£10 
08444 771 000 | | Following the success of Sarah Henley’s first play, ‘Getting Out’, Giant Olive presents ‘Getting Away’. Keeping to form with more multi-role-playing and fast paced comedy, Henley’s ‘Getting Away’ is presented in the style of a graphic novel - artist and all. The six members of the most successful sales team in the country have won a mini-break to congratulate them for doing so well. The one hitch is that their partners are invited – Claire has to find one, Lisa’s is a neanderthal and Guy’s is a French super-hero who’s wings have been clipped. How these couples fare is all down to the sometimes malevolent artist who has his own agenda and can change their fate on a whim. With free scenes and even audience input, no two performances will be the same. |
| | Cast of Getting Away:
| | | Benjamin Kissel - Artist
Benjamin Kissel is an Actor/Writer. Recently he has performed his one man show 'A Pohutukawa Wilts' for the Camden Fringe Festival transferring to Theatre 503 and also performs regularly with 'Improvisers Anonymous'. Past credits include Bash, Twelfth Night, Coram Boy, Marat/Sade, Three Sisters and The Laramie Project.
| | Ciara Pouncett – Lisa/Julia
Ciara has worked in a number of professional theatre, television and film productions since graduating and recently completed work on feature film 'Disoriented Generation' starring alongside Wil Johnson. Ciara has performed for ITV, BBC and Sky One. In theatre she has undertaken lead roles in several productions including work at The Old Red Lion, The Pleasance and The Hen and Chickens. "Ciara Dooley is transfixing as the class conscious Annie" (Ham & High).
| | Charles Reston – Dean/Mark
Charles Reston studied theatre at the Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq in Paris. Previous credits include Flycatcher at Theatre 503, A Few Good Men at the Oxford Playhouse, Consenting Adults for BBC4 and Marcel, a short film which he also co-wrote and co-directed.
| | | | | | | Ewa Jaworski – Sam/Fille
Ewa gained a BA in Film & Theatre from Reading University before graduating with a Postgraduate Diploma in Acting from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Ewa has appeared in various rehearsed readings - Peer Gynt with the Ibsen Stage Company, Angela Unbound by William Whitehurst with the Second Skin Theatre Company, as well as playing an Ugly sister in the pantomime, Cinderfella. Ewa is thrilled to be playing Sam/Fille in Giant Olive’s brilliant new production.
| | Timothy O’Hara – Gav/Guy
Timothy graduated from the Webber Douglas Academy and Central School of Speech and Drama. Timothy’s TV credits include Casualty and the BBC3 comedy "Clone" with Jonathan Price. Timothy recently played Porter/Smith in Guy Ritchie’s film ‘Sherlock Holmes’. He is a founding member of the Primrose Theatre Company, and played the narrator in the sell-out run of Cinderella (outside!). Timothy played Will/Dan in Henley’s ‘Getting Out’ at the Lion and Unicorn, and is delighted to be working with Gill and Sarah again.
| | Sophie Michaels – Claire/Tanya
Sophie trained in Musical Theatre at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Whilst training, her roles included Claire in 'Personals', Mary Lennox in 'The Secret Garden' and 'Sandra in 'Touched'. Sophie has also played the role of Sharon in 'A Slice of Saturday Night' at the Edinburgh festival., Josephine in the 'Da Da Suicides' at the Blue Elephant Theatre, and various cabarets and short films. Sophie is delighted to be a part of 'Getting Away!'.
| | | | | | | | | | Kane Sharpe – Sean/Alex Kane graduated from LAMDA last summer. Credits whilst training included 'The Blue Room', 'On the Boost', 'Days of Significance', The Seagull, Bassanio in 'The Merchant of Venice', and Antonio in 'The Duchess of Malfi'. | | |
| | ‘This is after all what comedy used to be about!’ What's On Stage
‘..an enjoyable play by a clearly talented new writer who demonstrates poise and comic timing not often seen in such an early piece of work’ The Stage
‘It is rude, it is politically incorrect and it is very very funny…performed with such relish that the audience follows the occasional gasp with a roar of laughter’ – remotegoat |
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