The Rimers of Eldritch

By Lanford Wilson

Director: Geoffrey Colman

Wednesday 9 June – Saturday 12 June, 7.30pm
Saturday 12 June, 2.30pm
Embassy Theatre

Performed by: BA (Hons) Acting: Stage and Screen students

The Rimers of Eldritch takes place during 1960s bible belt America, with its small-town morality and barely concealed viciousness. It’s tapestry of characters – a middle-aged café owner in love with her young assistant; a coarse, bigoted woman mistreating her senile mother and a tender relationship between a young man and a dreamy, disabled girl.

The play captures the fragmented rhythm of their lives through a wandering timeline and lyrical prose, which tunes us into the speech patterns of these loveless gossips, sex-hungry boys, compassionless preachers and vacuous blondes. Through this we get glimpses of a killing and a trial, whose true nature is not revealed until the closing of the play, exposing the town’s deep flaws and fatal hypocrisy.

By arrangement with Josef Weinberger Limited.

Booking

Box Office: Opens from Monday 17 May. Monday – Friday 10.00am – 4.30pm, Saturday 12.00pm – 2.30pm. Additional opening on performance nights 6.00pm – 7.30pm.

Telephone: 020 7722 8183
Email: boxoffice@cssd.ac.uk
Prices: £8 full, £5 concessions (students, senior citizens, unwaged, Central alumni, industry suppliers).

Tickets should be collected 15 minutes prior to start of the performance. Latecomers may not be admitted until a suitable break in the performance.

Please note seating is limited in the Webber Douglas Studio.