The Crocodile
Cast: 1f 3m, doubling
Staging: can be simply staged
Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)
16 Jul 2015Size: 198mm x 129mm
16 Jul 2015
The Crocodile
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Ivan is a struggling actor who hasn't yet achieved the recognition he feels he deserves. But all that is about to change when, one afternoon at the zoo with his friend Zack, he is swallowed whole by a crocodile.
Based on Dostoyevsky's short story, Tom Basden's The Crocodile is a ferociously funny, eye-poppingly theatrical play about art, animals and what happens when you try to take on the system from within… a crocodile.
It premiered as part of the 2015 Manchester International Festival, in a co-production with The Invisible Dot.
‘I’m not angry with you, Zack, I’m angry in general. I’m an artist, that’s my job.’
'Basden's witty updating treats Dostoyevsky's original with a nicely assured mixture of respect and irreverence… this savagely silly satire is entirely infectious'
Telegraph'Tom Basden turns Dostoevsky's allegory of capitalist inhumanity into a sharp satire on political celebrity in the Twitter age… by turns absurd, charming and subtly sinister'
The Times'A snappy little satire'
WhatsOnStageCast: 1f 3m, doubling
Staging:can be simply staged
Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)
16 Jul 2015Size: 198mm x 129mm
16 Jul 2015
