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    Rapture Theatre in assocaition with  

   

Greenwich Theatre

Presents

  

Last of the Red Hot Lovers 

by Neil Simon

    

This February, in Valentine’s season with  love and romance in the air, Rapture Theatre will be touring their latest production, “Last of the Red Hot Lovers”.

 

With a cast featuring River City’s Lisa Gardner and Still Game’s Jane McCarry,

the show is Pulitzer Prize winning author Neil Simon’s classic sixties about sex, love and seafood.

 

Barney Cashman married his high school sweetheart and now runs a fish restaurant. It seems the whole world is cashing in on the sexual revolution except him.

Barney devises a plan to have one sweeping affair before life passes him by; seduce a woman at his mother’s apartment while she’s at work.

 

The results are both comic and touching as Barney learns a lot about women and even more about life. The zippy one-liners mixed with a liberal helping of pathos make for the perfect recipe for a great night out.

 

Director Michael Emans says, “Barney is a sweet, gentle soul who is no match for the women he brings to his mother’s apartment. Behind some great, laugh out loud moments, is a tender portrayal of a man on the verge of a mid life crisis. Barney’s story will stay with you long after the laughter has faded.”

 

In the show, Billy Mack breathes life into Barney. Billy has combined stage work at the legendary Citizens Theatre with starring roles in television’s “Taggart”.

Jane McCarry is instantly recognizable as the long-suffering Isa in the iconic Scottish comedy “Still Game.

Lisa Gardner is best known as Jo Rossi in the soap opera “River City”.

Fletcher Mathers is a successful writer and actress already well known to Rapture fans, most notably in 2007’s production of Arthur Miller’s “Broken Glass”.

 

Rapture Theatre has been entertaining audiences since forming in 2000. Along with giving the Rapture treatment to some well known classical plays, the company has premiered work by Arthur Miller, David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Joe Penhall, Steve Thompson, Conor McPherson and more.

 

 

“Last of the Red Hot Lovers” will be on tour from 5th—28th February.

 

Tour Venue

Date

Box Office

Tickets

 

Musselburgh

Brunton Theatre

Thu 5th / Fri 6th Feb @ 7:30pm

0131 665 2240

£10.50/£8.50

 

Irvine

Harbour Arts Centre

 Sat 7th Feb  @7:30pm

01294 274059

£9/£7

 

Dunfermline

Carnegie Hall

Tue 10th Feb @7:30pm

01383 602302

£7/£5

 

Stirling

Tolbooth Theatre

Wed 11th Feb @7:30pm

01786 27000

£10/£8

 

Rutherglen

Eastfield Centre

Thu 12th Feb @7:30pm

 0141 641 8319

 £2/£1

 

Greenock

Arts Guild Theatre

Fri 13th Feb @7:30pm

 01475 723038

£11/£9

 

Paisley Arts Centre

Sat 14th Feb @7:30pm

 0141 887 1010

 £10 / £6

 

East Kilbride Arts Centre

Thu 19th Feb @8pm

01355 261000

 £8.50/£6.50

 

New Galloway

The Cat Strand

Fri 20th Feb @7:30pm

01644 420374

 £8/£6

 

Kilmarnock

Palace Theatre

 Sat 21st Feb @7:30pm

01563 554900

£8/£6.50

 

London

Greenwich Theatre

Tue 24th—Sat 28th Feb @7:30pm

Wed 25th and sat 28th @ 2:30pm

 0208 858 7755

 £17.50/£15/£12.50

 

 

Company Biographies

 

 

Jane McCarry

 

JANE MCCARRY (Jeanette Fisher)

 

 Jane is best known for playing  Isa in the iconic television series “Still Game” and currently plays “Granny Murray in “ Me Too”.

 

Other television includes:

Nina Goes Inventing, Freshly squeezed, Hubbub Series, The Baldy Man, Pulp video, Rab C Nesbitt, Para Handy ( Comedy Unit)

 

This is Jane’s first appearance with Rapture Theatre

 

Other Theatre Includes:

Rumplestiltskin (Oran Mor), Cinderella, Aladdin (Kings Glasgow)

Pinocchio (Pavilion Theatre), The Wizard of Oz (Citizens) Mother Goose, Babes in the Wood (Borderline) The Steamie, A Chorus of disapproval, Cause Celebre (Pitlochry)

 

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FLETCHER MATHERS

( Elaine Naviazio)

 

Previous Rapture : The Collection, Broken Glass

Theatre Includes:

 Hamlet ( Citizens) Quartet ( Oran Mor) , Private Lives ( Byre Theatre ),

Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk

( Glasgow Tron Theatre)

Brave( Communicado/Sop), Factory Girls ( 7.84 Theatre Company), Whiskey Galore ( Perth/Lyceum/Mull), Macbeth, Death and the Maiden , Retreat ( Mull Theatre), Girlfriends( Playhouse Theatre, London) , A Funny Thing happened on the way to the Forum ( Manchester Library) From London to Hollywood – American tour – ( Pasadena Roof Orchestra)

 

TV Includes: End Of Story, Yo Diary,  Dr.Finlay, Taggart,Legit

 

 

Lisa Gardner

              LISA GARDNER  

(Bobbi Michelle)

 

Lisa currently plays Joanne Rossi in the flagship BBC Scotland series “ River City”

 

This is Lisa's first apperance with Rapture Theatre

 

Theatre Includes:

Targets, Velvet Love, Drawing Bored,

(Oran Mor), Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bard in the Botanics), Tales from Hollywood (Perth Theatre), Babes in the Wood (Adam Smith Theatre), Whatever  happened to Baby Jane (Glasgow Citizens), Merlin the Magnificent (Dundee Rep),

 

 

Television and Radio Includes:

Sea of Souls, Frozen, Free Falling, Kitty Elizabeth Must Die, Standing Still and Running, Trading Game, (BBC)

 

 

Billy Mack

               BILLY MACK

(Barney Cashman)

 

This Billy’s first appearance with Rapture

 

Previous Theatre Includes;

Wee Fairy Tales, Peter Pan, Hamlet, The Bevellers, No Mean City, Arturo ui The Twits, Merlin (Citizens Theatre), Book of Love, Short spin, Weesht (Oran Mor) The Winter’s Tale, Mince, Cabaret, Changing Kevin’s Story, Beauty and the Beast, Babes in the Wood (Adam smith Theatre) Northern Trawl, (Hull Truck), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Northcott Exeter)

 

Television Includes:

Taggart ( SMG), Still Game, Legit, Dear Green Place ( BBC)

 

 

 

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MICHAEL EMANS  (Director)

 

Trained:

Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama.

 

Previous Theatre Includes:

Over the Mountain

(Creek Road Studio Theatre), Tom Jones (Lillian Bayliss Theatre), The Finishing School (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton)

 

For Rapture Theatre, Michael has directed: Death and the Maiden, The Dumb Waiter, Some Kind of Love Story, Shadowlands, Taking Sides, Clara, An Evening with Gary Lineker,  Boys’ Life, Grace, , Death of a Salesman, A Kind of Alaska, Habeas Corpus, Rat in the Skull, Oleanna, Macbeth, Perfect Days, Bold Girls, Shang a lang, Assassins, Betrayal, Mr.Peters’ Connections, Insignificance, Speed the Plow, Simpatico, Boy Gets Girl, Your Turn to Clean the Stair, The Old Neighborhood, The Sailmaker, Richard III, Double Top, Boston Marriage, Twisted, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Iune, Proof, Misery, Blue/Orange ,Damages,  The Collection and Frozen,Broken Glass, Shining City, Betrayal

 

Michael recently assisted Mark Thomson at the Royal Lyceum Theatre on “Uncle Varick” and “Six Black Candles”.  and worked with acclaimed Scottish playwright Iain Heggie on his new one man show for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

 

Michael has also directed at the Oran Mor the winner of the Orange Playwriting Award “Magnum Opus” and more recently the acclaimed “Burns on the Solway”

 

  

 

 

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LYN MCANDREW (Designer)

 

Trained: Edinburgh University, Strathclyde University

 

Previous Theatre Includes:

The High School, The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, A Night in the Ukraine, Teechers, The Steamie, Men Should Weep, The Cemetery Club, The London Vertigo, The Orchestra, Play it again Sam.

 

For Rapture Theatre as actress:

Macbeth, Perfect Days, Shang a Lang, Assassins, Betrayal, Bold Girls, Speed the Plow, Simpatico, Boy Gets Girl, Richard III, Boston Marriage, Twisted, Proof

 

For Rapture Theatre as Designer:

Macbeth, Perfect Days, Assassins, Insignificance, Simpatico, Old Neighborhood, Richard III, Boston Marriage, Frankie and Johnny, Proof , Misery, Blue/Orange and Damages,  The Collection ,Frozen, Betrayal

 

 

    

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