You have stepped from the cobbled stones of the Cathedral Quarter into the Korova Milkbar and ultraviolent world of Anthony Burgess’ classic novel A Clockwork Orange. Rawlife Theatre Company promise to bring you into the explosive domain of Alex and his rampant, drug fuelled gang of droogs.
We hope this night will be a truly memorable theatrical experience. The play explores the nature of crime, punishment, rehabilitation and freewill wrapped up in a cocktail of Sex, Religion, Fashion, Politics and Beethoven. In our current post 9/11 climate of State power versus individual freedom this story is closer to reality than ever before.
Rawlife as a company is dedicated to encouraging non-theatre going audiences to take a risk and give theatre a chance. That is why after adapting Burgess’ novel I wanted to direct it in these amazing post modern surrounding of the Potthouse, a place that people already associate with alternative and cutting edge entertainment.
The Potthouse bar is open before and after each performance and during the interval, so why not make a night of it? So if you’ve managed to find a seat then hold onto it and get ready for some ultra-entertainment…
Written by: Anthony Burgess
Directed by: Martin McSharry
Set Design by: Niall Rea
Lighting Designed by: Mick Drane
Choreographer: Kerry Anne Austin
Fight Instructor: Jo Donnelly
Producer: Lyn Harris
Stage Manager: Graham Crighton
Deputy Stage Manager: Lyn Harris
Costume Supervisor: Lyn Harris
Reviews
““Squeezing fresh meaning from A Clockwork Orange….. the edge doesn’t get more cutting than A Clockwork Orange’s Alex and his drug fuelled gang of droogs…… an unsettling must-see……. in the post-modern Potthouse…….. staged in and around the concrete and glass of the edgy architecture of Belfast’s Potthouse, it is a startlingly scary and explosive domain for Alex and his rampant gang. The actors leap onto concrete ledges, drape themselves round pillars and spread-eagle their victims on the glass floor of this spacious night-club venue of Potthouse’s Sugar Room. A truly memorable theatrical experience by a local theatre company taking their work out to their audience”
“Writer/Director, Martin McSharry has made inventive use of the glass and steel post-modern environment of this uber-trendy bar ... in Martin McCann as the narrator and protagonist, he has chosen one of the most engaging and gifted young actors to have emerged from the North in a long time ... he stamps his own deceptively sweet presence onto his character as the appalling Alex ... the packed audience voted with its feet to a one of experience by an enterprising young company.”
