Tmesis Theatre’s The Dreadful Hours
UK Tour - Autumn/Winter 2010
Tmesis Theatre has embarked on their biggest and most innovative collaboration to date with the current tour of their new production The Dreadful Hours. A painfully funny dinner you can’t afford to miss. The Dreadful Hours is a darkly comic, physically charged drama that exposes the quiet disintegration of love’s first flourish through one couple’s relationship. What happens when one hour’s dinner can seem like years, yet years seem to pass in a heartbeat?
The Dreadful Hours combines Tmesis Theatre’s Yorgos Karamalegos and Elinor Randle and their trademark physicality with new writing from acclaimed Northwest playwright Chris Fittock, in a darkly comic drama that explores the quiet crumbling of love’s first flourish through the lifetime of one couple’s relationship. Peepolykus’s master of the ridiculous Javier Marzan directs a wonderfully inventive production full of dark humour and striking visuals.
Tmesis Theatre’s fourth production follows successful European tours of Tmesis, Memen to Mori, and Anima, their trilogy on life’s journey. The Dreadful Hours is the first piece in which the company works with a writer.
