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Preview by Paul Nelson
HAVING
completely been sold out during a previous limited run at the New End,
An Audience With The Mafia returns for an extended season with enhanced
special effects and an even more spectacular arsenal of weapons.
A roller coaster ride through the history of the Mafia, from its birth in
America a century ago, through Prohibition and the Mafia wars of the Roaring
Twenties, to the creation of modern day Las Vegas by The Mob and its subsequent
influence in all avenues of contemporary American life, from business and
politics to entertainment and sport.
Using a backdrop of hundreds of original photographs of the period and a stunning
arsenal of weapons, several notorious Mafia 'hits' are re-staged by one of
the world's surviving authorities on the history of the American Mafia and
its influence on organised crime throughout the 20th Century.
You will meet legendary gangsters Al Capone (pictured), 'Lucky' Luciano,
Meyer Lansky, 'Bugsy' Siegel, 'Dutch' Schultz - not forgetting Murder Incorporated,
the elite squad of Jewish assassins employed by the Mafia in the 1930s.
In 1994, the Linguistics Division of the United Nations conducted an experiment
to find the most recognised word in the world, a word that is spelt the same,
sounds the same, and has the same meaning across the Globe. Three universities
were hired and almost 600 languages and lexicons were downloaded into a Kray
Supercomputer. One word emerged - Mafia.
An Audience With the Mafia has already been staged to great acclaim
across the UK and USA as well as to the Italian anti-Mafia police, the Militeria
Financia.
It is directed by Simon Langton, whose credits include the television adaptation
of Pride and Prejudice, one of the biggest selling videos for the BBC.
An Audience With The Mafia, Directed by Simon Langton, Presented by Barrie
C Stead Productions in association with Brian Daniels and the New End Theatre
at The New End Theatre, 27 New End, Hampstead, London NW3 from Monday, March
10 to Thursday, April 3, Monday to Thursday and Saturday at 8.15pm, Sundays
at 6 and 8.15pm. Extra show Saturdays at 10.15pm. Tickets: 020 7794 0022.
