Four For Jericho

Touring Theatre Project 2010-11

Think Fest, Goa, India 2011
Edinburgh Fringe 2011
Regional Tour - Oct-Nov 2010

Pilot: Hotbed 2009

Writer: Richard Fredman

Director: Patrick Morris

Producer: Paul Bourne

Cast: (Goa 2011) Jane Lesley, Josh Becker, Paul Brendan, Claire Cordier. (Edinburgh 2011) Emma Beatie, Josh Becker, Paul Brendan and Chandrika Chevli. (Tour 2010) Andrew Pembrooke, Josh Becker, Jane Lesley, Melissa Advani.

Diving into the red-hot passions of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, hapless tourist Michael Crossley sets out to film the Holy Land for his Sunday school. There’s one place he has to go – Jericho. With high-decibel history lessons, mistaken identities, biblical visions and the most dangerous car chase ever, this riotous political comedy dares to laugh at the absurdities and tragedies of today’s Promised Land. Richard lives in Cambridge and has written many plays, particularly for young audiences. This is his first professional commission that seizes upon his experiences in Israel and on the West Bank.

Following success in Edinburgh our production of Four For Jericho was been invited to the prestigious Think Fest in Goa, India, in November 2011.

Writer

Richard Fredman

Cast

Emma Beatie Emma trained at ALRA and was winner of the 1998 Lilian Bayliis Award. She recently played Deborah in The Song of Deborah at the Lowry Theatre. Other theatre credits include: Sara in The Potting Shed (Finborough Theatre); Natalia in Ivanov (Wyndham’s Theatre); Joyce in The Ruffian on the Stair (Orange Tree Theatre); Malene in John Gabriel Borkman (Donmar Warehouse); Mina in The Cut (Donmar Warehouse); Regan in King Lear (Pendley Shakespeare Festival) and Jessica in Hysteria (UK Tour).

Josh Becker Josh trained at the Arts Educational School in London, graduating with a BA(Hon) in acting in 2009. Productions in the UK include Gonzalo in Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”, Jim & Brian in Dennis Kelly’s “Taking Care of Baby”, Bill Oddie in “Cloud Cuckoo Land” and most recently Clive Daniels, an evil & greedy musical agent in the new musical “Heaven Sent”. Productions overseas include Lord Tolloler in Gilbert & Sullivan’s “Iolanthe”, Charlie Brown in “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown”, Macduff in “Macbeth” & George Hastings in “She Stoops to Conquer”. Josh wants to thank Patrick and Menagerie for helping him get in shape working on the show!

Paul Brendan Trained: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Theatre includes: Brooklyn (The Arcola Theatre); Blowing (Fanshen/Company of Angels); The Merry Wives of Windsor (Changeling Theatre Company); A Model for Mankind (The Cock Tavern Theatre) Molière (The Finborough Theatre); Gizmo Love (The Brewery); Twelfth Night (The Lord Chamberlain’s Men); Antony & Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Richard II (Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory); Complicit, The Norman Conquests (The Old Vic); Tartuffe (Circomedia); A Month in the Country (The Tobacco Factory); The Threepenny Opera (Bristol Old Vic).

Chandrika Chevli Chandrika’s recent stage work includes “Common Ground” by Katy Darby, “Maillé Oublié” at the Pleasance in London and “Shrink”, a short play by Sadie Frost. She performed “Where’s My Bike?”, a solo self penned Edinburgh show last year. TV credits include Not Going Out, Beautiful People and The Omid Djalili Show. She’s a highly experienced broadcaster and regular newsreader on BBC Radio 2.

Four For Jericho Reviews:

‘A stunning whirl wind of comedy, politics and physical theatre, Four For Jericho is a provoking and entertaining delight’.

‘Peacefully still and artistically moving, the close of the performance holds an inquisitive and haunting air’