newtheatre/history-project

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title: Mercury Fur
playwright: Philip Ridley
season: In House
season_sort: 30
period: Autumn
venue: Trent, Performing Arts Studio
date_start: 2012-11-03
date_end: 2012-11-06

cast:
  - role: Eliot
    name: Andy Routledge
  - role: Darren
    name: Matt Miller
  - role: Naz
    name: Laura Gallop
  - role: Spinx
    name: Tolu Johnson
  - role: Lola
    name: Aaron Tej
  - role: Duchess
    name: Ginny Lee
  - role: Party Guest
    name: Rosie van Oss
  - role: Party Piece
    name: Holly Daniels
crew:
  - role: Director
    name: Nadia Amico
  - role: Producer
    name: Dasha Karzunina
  - role: Producer
    note: NSDF
    name: Nick Barker
  - role: Technical Director
    name: Will Pimblett
  - role: Lighting Designer
    name: Jess Courtney
  - role: Lighting Designer
    note: NSDF
    name: Will Pimblett
  - role: Sound Designer
    name: Tom Barnes
  - role: Set Designer
    name: Natasha Mortimer
  - role: Technical Operator
    name: Nick Ward
  - role: Technical Operator
    name: Meghan Seely
  - role: Technical Operator
    name: Zoe Plummer
  - role: Technical Operator
    name: Joseph Heil
  - role: Stage Manager
    name: Natasha Mortimer
  - role: Stage Manager
    name: Amanda Schaerer
  - role: Publictiy
    name: Nick Barker

tour:
- venue: NSDF 2013
- date_start:
- date_end:
- notes: Acting Commendation  |  Laura Gallop for Naz In Mercury Fur

links:
  - type: Review
    href: https://impactnottingham.com/2012/11/mercury-fur-nottingham-new-theatre-2/
    snapshot: kTMJT
    publisher: Impact Nottingham
    author: Jonathan Newsome
    title: "Mercury Fur @ Nottingham New Theatre"
    date: 2012-11-04
    quote: "In some respects, I feel Mercury Fur is a contemporary play that is possibly ahead of its time; a play some audiences may not yet be equipped to tackle and accept."

assets:
  - type: poster
    image: F6TKnf8
  - type: trailer
    video: JwgTzg5
    title: Trailer

prod_shots: m4KPV7
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Set in London, in the not so distant future, where gangs prevail and memory has been wiped by the consumption of hallucinogenic butterflies, brothers Elliot and Darren survive by organising ‘parties’ where their clients’ most sadistic fantasies are realised. But it soon becomes clear that the success of one particular party will guarantee not just their safety, but their salvation.

This show was selected to represent the Nottingham New Theatre at the National Student Drama Festival in 2013.