The production will head to the Finsbury Park based theatre from the 14th of May until the 16th June.
Tightrope Theatre have announced it will be presenting Philippa Lawford’s Cold Water at the Park Theatre, with performances beginning next month.
After university, Emma moves back with her parents in Hertfordshire and gets a job at her old school, assisting in the Drama department. Before long, she’s spending every day in the studio with Matt, her boss. Matt decides to teach Emma everything he knows, and Emma feels her life starting to change.
Written and directed by Lawford, the play is about wanting something so much that you can’t do anything about it. The play is being presented as part of Make Mine a Double, an exciting new programme presenting double bills of shows that aims to give theatre makers a lower-cost and lower-risk way of producing new work in the Finsbury Park venue.
The role of Matt will be played by Jolyon Coy (I Joan, The Globe; Peaky Blinders, BBC) alongside Julia Pilkington (Cowboys & Lesbians, Park Theatre; Move Fast and Break Things, Summerhall) as Emma.
Talking about the play, Philippa Lawford said: ” Having grown up in Harpenden, this play is partly based on my experiences of being frustrated to not live in London, and feelings of awkwardness and embarrassment around pursuing dreams of working in theatre. Cold Water features extracts which I have adapted from Chekhov’s The Seagull, that contains many parallel stories of infatuation, longing, self- hatred and fear. I would describe Cold Water as a love story, albeit not a very successful one.”
To book tickets visit: https://parktheatre.co.uk/whats-on/cold-water