The Dirty Talk - Jermyn Street Theatre
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
THE Dirty Talk, Michael Puzzo’s acclaimed one act dark comedy, which was work-shopped at the LAByrinth Theater Company and first produced for the New York Fringe by the late great Phillip Seymour Hoffman, will receive its London premiere at Jermyn Street Theatre – from June 2 to June 6, 2015.
Mitch’s girlfriend’s left him. He’s stranded in a hunting cabin in the middle of a storm. Someone’s just turned up to make his day even worse. During their tumultuous day together the two explore what defines being a man, the lies we tell each other and most devastatingly the lies we tell ourselves.
Produced by Royal Row in association with Jermyn Street Theatre by special arrangement with The Gersh Agency, 41 Madison Avenue, 33rd Floor, New York, NY 10010, The Dirty Talk is directed by award-winning director Charlotte Westenra, designed by Simon Anthony Wells and general managed by Katy Lipson for Aria Entertainment.
Casting is to be announced.
Michael Puzzo is a writer, actor, producer and member of New York City’s celebrated LAByrinth Theater Company since 1997. US Productions of his plays include Spirits of Exit ELeven, The Slasher’s Lament, Lyric is Waiting, My Soul the Pavement and The 11am Girl Says “Goodnight”.
As an actor, he studied with the legendary Maggie Flanigan, and has acted in countless Off-Broadway plays, most recently in the original company of Stephen Adly Guigis’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play Between Riverside and Crazy. He has also worked with the likes of John Patrick Shanley, Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Royal Shakespeare Company and Eric Bogasian. Puzzo is currently working on a Pilot for NBC.
Charlotte Westenra’s credits include Lower Ninth (Donmar at Trafalgar Studios), My Dad’s A Birdman (Sheffield Crucible), The Obama Project (NT Studio London/Ingmar Bergman Festival Stockholm), Kiss of the Spider Woman (Donmar Warehouse), Darfur- How Long is Never? (Tricycle Theatre), The Return of the Soldier (Jermyn Street Theatre), Titanic – Scenes From the British Wreck Commissioner’s Inquiry (Metropolitan Arts Centre Belfast) and Sixty-Six Books (Bush Theatre).
As Associate Director her credits include Piaf and Frost/Nixon (Donmar West End Transfer) and Bloody Sunday and Justifying War (Tricycle Theatre). She was resident Assistant Director at the Donmar Warehouse in 2004.
Tickets: £18, £16 concessions – available from the box office on 020 7287 2875 or online at www.jermynstreettheatre.co.uk/.
Times: Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30pm, Friday at 9pm, Saturday at 3.30pm.
Running Time: 60 minutes.
Also at Jermyn Street Theatre: the musical revue Jerry’s Girls, which celebrates the music of Jerry Herman (May 12 to May 31, 2015).