2017 Edinburgh Fringe
The Optimists
When Daniel accidentally dopes a professional football team a day before their drug test, kidnapping the club's owner seems like the simplest way out. Or it would be, if the neighbourhood Communist Society weren't out to get him. A farcical comedy, fresh from the Oxford University Dramatic Society's New Writing Festival, asking important questions such as 'how do four communists split a bill of £6.71?'.
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How should 4 Communists divide a bill of £6.71? And what happens when they bring a corpse to someone's birthday party? The Optimists is a farcical comedy about Communism, sports doping and accidental manslaughter that answers these important questions.
Fresh from a successful run as a winner of Oxford University's New Writing Festival, HalfWit Theatre presents Suzy Cripps' debut 'Commcom' The Optimists. Suzy has been junior writer in residence for The North Wall Theatre's ArtsLab Comedy Trolls project.
Oxford Opening Night assures that "its quickfire pace and sense of humour mean you'll spend almost the entire hour falling about laughing".
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Director - Lucy Hayes
Producers - Lucy Coupe & Suzy Cripps
Daniel - Ryan Lea
Sergei - John Livesey
Katie - El Blackwood
Alex - Christopher Page
Tatiana - Imo Reeve-Tucker
Johan - James Tibbles
Café Owner - Georgina Botham
Sofia - Lucy Hayes
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Performances
| Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| 14th Aug 2017 | 22:15 | theSpace @ Niddry St |
| 15th Aug 2017 | 22:15 | theSpace @ Niddry St |
| 16th Aug 2017 | 22:15 | theSpace @ Niddry St |
| 17th Aug 2017 | 22:15 | theSpace @ Niddry St |
| 18th Aug 2017 | 22:15 | theSpace @ Niddry St |
| 19th Aug 2017 | 22:15 | theSpace @ Niddry St |
| 21st Aug 2017 | 22:15 | theSpace @ Niddry St |
| 22nd Aug 2017 | 22:15 | theSpace @ Niddry St |
| 23rd Aug 2017 | 22:15 | theSpace @ Niddry St |
| 24th Aug 2017 | 22:15 | theSpace @ Niddry St |
| 25th Aug 2017 | 22:15 | theSpace @ Niddry St |
| 26th Aug 2017 | 22:15 | theSpace @ Niddry St |