Category: Patrick Cullen

  A Night of Play presents BULLY BOY, by Sandi Toksvig, at the Blood Moon Theatre at The World Bar, Bayswater Rd., Kings Cross. 10 March – 26 March. BULLY BOY is the nickname belonging to a group of British soldiers assigned to the war in Afghanistan. It concerns the investigation of an ‘incident’ in the heat of war, where a mother and son were killed during a skirmish – the 8 year-old boy thrown down a well, where he drowned – ‘collateral damage’. BULLY BOY, written in 2011, by Sandi Toksvig, is a play for two actors. Over the…

  Sydney Fringe Festival 2015 presents BRITANNIA WAVES THE RULES, by Gareth Farr, at the New Theatre, Newtown. BRITANNIA RULES THE WAVES by Gareth Farr was premiered at the Royal Exchange in Manchester in 2014, and is having its Australian premier with this production. A 90 minute ‘story-theatre’ exercise told directly to the audience, with some acted interludes with other characters, by a young Blackpool lad, Carl Jackson (Vincent Adriano), who to escape the boredom, “the shite” of his home town, follows up the invitation of a recruiting officer into the armed forces to see the world.  “We fight. We…