The Quiz & I, Lear at Trafalgar Studios 2

The Trafalgar Studios 2 announces two new shows The Quiz by Richard Crane starring David Bradley (17 to 28 June); I, Lear with Andrew Jones & Ciaran Murtagh (21 July - 16 Aug 2008) and the children's show Professor Bumm's Story Machine (afternoons 22 July - 16 Aug 2008) - details below.

17 to 28 June 2008
The Quiz
by Richard Crane. Directed by David Giles, designed by Kenneth Mellor, produced by New Vic Workshop, Jordan Productions and James Seabright .
Starring David Bradley
If you’ve been performing ‘The Grand Inquisitor’ for too many years and it’s always been your dream to die on stage like Kean, Irving and Tommy Cooper — is tonight the night to make the ultimate leap?

21 July to 16 Aug 2008
I, Lear
written and performed by Andrew Jones & Ciaran Murtagh. Directed by Cal McCrystal, produced by The Black Sheep in association with Scamp Theatre
If Monty Python had performed King Lear it would have gone like this... The entirety of British Theatre in a single evening. 'Be moved to Yorkshire by Alan Gordon Bennett’s Talking Faeces, dutifully appreciative of the obligatory Chekhov and rendered speechless by the show stopping Shakespearean finale. '

22 July to 16 Aug 2008 (Afternoons)
Professor Bumm's Story Machine
Created and performed by Andrew Jones & Ciaran Murtagh. Produced by The Black Sheep in association with Scamp Theatre
Whose Line is it Anyway? meets Jackanory in this crackpot comedy of made-up madness. Two eggheads race to avoid getting egg on their faces by turning words and ideas from the audience into hilarious new stories.
*Suitable for children over six