Keith? or Moliere Rewired
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… A South African gunrunner turned Buddhist monk.
… A gullible startup millionaire.
… His radical feminist ex wife.
… Their aid worker daughter.
… The young British Muslim she met in Syria.
… An ethical Serbian hitman.
And an unstable Brazilian cleaner.
Modern Britain. Moral chaos. Total nightmare.
A new comedy about life in Brexit Britain, the lies we tell to each other – and to ourselves.
Patrick Marmion
Patrick Marmion is a playwright, journalist and Associate Lecturer at the University of Kent. Previous plays include THE DIVIDED LAING (Arcola Theatre), TERMS AND CONDITIONS (White Bear), PIETA – AFTER CHEKHOV (Finborough & Print Room), OSTERLEY (Urban Scrawl), THE INSTITUTE (Etcetera). Screenplays include MUSHROOM SOUP (Sam Mendes/Renaissance Films), Kids FM (Working Title Television), MAID MARION (Channel Four Films), ARCHIE TANNER & THE DODO (Children’s Film & Television Foundation) and THE DEAD GUY (based on novel of same title).
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Keith? or Moliere Rewired - Patrick Marmion
Patrick Marmion
Patrick Marmion is a writer, journalist and teacher. Plays include: Great Apes (Arcola Theatre), The Divided Laing (Arcola Theatre), Terms & Conditions (White Bear) and Pieta – After Chekhov (Finborough Theatre/Print Room).
Screenplays include: Mushroom Soup, Kids FM and Maid Marion.
First published in the UK in 2019 by Aurora Metro Publications Ltd.
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Keith? Or Moliere Rewired Copyright © 2019 Patrick Marmion
Cover image courtesy of Idil Sukan © 2019 Idil Sukan
Production: Peter Fullagar
With many thanks to: Marina Tuffier, Didem Uzum, Maja Florczak
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ISBNs:
(print) 978-1-912430-27-7
(ebook) 978-1-912430-28-4
Keith?
or Moliere Rewired
by
Patrick Marmion
CONTENTS
About Arcola
Cast List
Biographies
Q&A with Playwright
The Play
Keith? Or Moliere Rewired
Keith? or Moliere Rewired
Cast & Creatives
First performed at Arcola Theatre 13th February, 2019
Morgan Mark Jax
Roxy Natalie Klamar
Keith Joseph Millson
Mo Aki Omoshaybi
Veena Sara Powell
Anna Lizzie Winkler
Writer Patrick Marmion
Director Oscar Pearce
Designer Jemima Robinson
Lighting Designer Geoff Hense
Sound Designer Dinah Mullen
Costume Supervisor Bex Kemp
Movement Director Sian Williams
Production Manager Cameron Murray
Assistant Director Georgia Harris
Stage Manager Sidsel Andersen
PR Freya Cowdry & Chloe Heard
for Kate Morley PR
Photographer Idil Sukan
Trailer Filming Savage Mills
With thanks to: Hanne Talbot, Richard Williamson, Chris Drohan, Hornets Kensington, Ali Wright and huge generosity of our sponsors
Mark Jax – Morgan
Mark Jax trained at RADA under Hugh Cruttwell as Principal. Theatre credits include: Pressure (West End/Park Theatre), Faithful Ruslan – The Story of a Guard Dog (Belgrade/Citizens); Richard III, The Lower Depths, Platanov/Sons Without Fathers (Arcola Theatre); Much Ado about Nothing (Queens Theatre, Hornchurch); Romeo and Juliet (Home); As You Like It (Transport); A Soldier in Every Son, King John, Richard III (RSC); Three Musketeers (ETT/Traverse); Fast Labour (Hampstead); Rough Crossings (Headlong); Jamaica Inn, Barbarians and The Norman Conquests (Salisbury Playhouse); Macbeth/Way of the World, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Atheists Tragedy (Birmingham Repertory); Romeo and Juliet (Sheffield Crucible); Mansfield Park (Chichester Festival); A Chorus of Disapproval (Stephen Joseph); The Futurists, Pravda and The Government Inspector (National Theatre). TV and Film credits include: The Bee-Eaters, The Road to 1984, The Most Dangerous Man in the World, Marco Polo, Merlin, Mary Mother of Jesus, In the Beginning, The Prime Minister, Desi Boyz, Frankenstein, The Vice, The Two of Us, Stealing Heaven, Living Doll.
Natalie Klamar – Roxy
Trained: LAMDA. Theatre: Richard II (Almeida), Prom Kween (Áine Flanagan Productions), Othello (The Globe), Cleansed (National Theatre), I Want My Hat Back (National Theatre), Future Conditional (Old Vic), The Cherry Orchard (Young Vic), This May Hurt A Bit (Out of Joint) All’s Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, Hamlet, A Soldier In Every Son, King John, Richard III (All RSC), Sense (Hen & Chicken Theatre), Town (Royal & Derngate), Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Theatre Royal Haymarket). Television: Patrick Melrose, Grantchester, Vera, Holby City, Midsomer Murders, Misfits, Doctors. Film: Immaculate Heart.
Joseph Millson – Keith
Theatre includes: Apologia (Trafalgar Studios), The Rover (RSC), Mr Foote’s Other Leg (Hampstead Theatre), Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe), Rocket To The Moon (National Theatre), Love Never Dies (Adelphi Theatre), Fear & Misery, The Priory (Royal Court Theatre) and Judgement Day (Almeida Theatre). Television credits as series regular include: Luc Hemingway in Holby City. Other television credits include: The Last Kingdom, Banished and 24: Live Another Day; and for film: Casino Royale.
Aki Omoshaybi – Mo
Theatre includes: Hairspray (Shaftesbury Theatre), Hair, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Chariots of Fire (Gielgud Theatre) and The Empress (RSC). Film includes: The Riot Club, Kids In Love, A Moving Image, Manolo, Faces, Burning Men and Star Wars: The Last Jedi. TV Shows: Sick of it, Dr Who, Defending The Guilty. He is also a writer/director and most recently wrote Spilt which he also starred in and was nominated at British Urban Film Festival, Groucho Film Festival . And is just about to make his directorial feature film Greywell, which he also