Theatre 48 return to Horsham’s Capitol Theatre with You Stupid Darkness!
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00:00Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers. Lovely to
00:06speak again to Alex. Now Alex, from Theatre 48, coming up in Horsham with a really interesting
00:11sounding production with a fabulous title, You Stupid Darkness. Explain that title, it's
00:18intriguing.
00:19So the title, it comes from a Charlie Brown comic, and the reference is explained in the
00:27final scene of the play, as it's included in... One of the main characters is obsessed
00:32with comics and cartoons, so it features on his lunchbox, and he explains the quote and
00:38explains the title of the show. Yes, so when you get to the last scene, it will become
00:43clear.
00:44And the play is something different for the company, isn't it? What's the attraction of
00:47this play, and what was the scene, what's it about?
00:50It's a total departure for us. It's a very modern, very darkly funny play about four
00:59people who work in a Samaritan-style office in the not-too-distant future during some
01:06kind of global warming crisis or apocalypse of some kind. It's never said specifically
01:13what is happening, so it's up to the audience to decide what they think is going on outside
01:18the office. And we follow the journey of these four characters who volunteer to help
01:24make people's lives a bit more bearable over the course of five weeks.
01:29It sounds really appealing, it sounds intriguing. And you're following up on the back of a sellout
01:35last year with An Acorn. That's pressure, isn't it? You've got to do as well again.
01:39Absolutely, yes. So we had a three-night run of Improbable Fiction by Alan Akebourne last
01:45February, which sold out at the studio in the Capitol, which was amazing for us. So we're
01:51really hoping to get everybody who came to see that show come back, and new audience members,
01:56and yeah, have another smash on our hands, hopefully.
02:00Well, good luck with that. And part of the plan also is to move back to two productions a year,
02:05isn't it?
02:06Yes, ideally. We're hoping to be back in November, yeah, to do two a year at the Capitol.
02:12So yeah, watch this space.
02:14Fantastic. Well, good luck with You Stupid Darkness,
02:17Theatre 48 at the Capitol in Horsham. Alex, lovely to speak to you. Thank you.
02:22Thanks, Bill.