'Feelgood'
by Alistair Beaton
Directed
by Phil Young
Set and Costumes designed by David Burrows
Lighting
designed by Nick Richings
with:
John Higgins - Eddie
Gregor Hunt - Paul
Amelia Saberwal - Asha
Ray Gardner - George
John Dorney - Simon
Amanda Osborne - Liz
Jeffrey Harmer - DL
at Vienna's English Theatre, Austria
opened
31st January 2005 until March 19th
and at Frankfurt's English Theatre,
Germany
opened
April 5th until May 28th 2005
Show pre-set
at the public dress rehearsal on 28th January
Act One
From left: Simon, Eddie, George and Asha
Act 2, Scene 1. Eddie confronts Liz
View from extreme left front stalls (during director's notes to actors after public dress)
The theatre exterior
View from the stage of the auditorium ceiling and balcony
Press shots of the actors
Gregor Hunt, John Higgins
and Ray Gardner
John Dorney and John
Higgins
Amelia
Saberwal
and Ray Gardner
Amanda Osborne and
John Higgins
Jeffrey Harmer
as DL
Alistair
Beaton’s satire on modern politics is set on the eve of the Prime
Minister’s speech to his party’s annual conference. With public
opinion increasingly volatile, there’s panic at the top. This time
it’s all got to be perfect. Sinister and obsessive press secretary
Eddie and young speech-writing aid Paul are desperately trying to finalise
the finest speech the PM will ever give, as anti-capitalist riots rage
in the streets below. But Eddie’s manipulative skills are to be
tested far more by the gradual revelation of a scandal that is so far-reaching
that it could keep the party out of power for a generation. Can the story
be killed? Can the investigating journalist – Eddie’s ex-wife!
– be bought? And exactly how far will a government go to save itself
and come up smelling of roses?