MAN OF 100 FACES
by Saul Boyer
KINGS HEAD THEATRE (22 JUL 2022 | 27 SEPT - 1 OCT 2022 | 8 - 12 NOV 2022)
GILDED BALLOON, EDINBURGH (1 - 27 AUG 2022)
EDINBURGH FRINGE SELL-OUT SHOW 2022
"READERS' FAVOURITE SHOWS OF 2022" (THE GUARDIAN)
by Saul Boyer
KINGS HEAD THEATRE (22 JUL 2022 | 27 SEPT - 1 OCT 2022 | 8 - 12 NOV 2022)
GILDED BALLOON, EDINBURGH (1 - 27 AUG 2022)
EDINBURGH FRINGE SELL-OUT SHOW 2022
"READERS' FAVOURITE SHOWS OF 2022" (THE GUARDIAN)
This is the unbelievably true story of Sir Paul Dukes - a child runaway who, after just three weeks' training, becomes head of MI6 in Russia during the bloodiest year of the Revolution. Soon, this intrepid son of a Somerset vicar finds himself in a bewildering world of demagogues, femme fatales - and all manner of double and triple agents. He repeatedly escapes shooting, smuggles himself across enemy lines disguised as a ghost, runs one-hundred miles across a frozen minefield with crippling frostbite, and risks certain death to pass eye-popping secret intelligence back to Britain - using some very unconventional ink. He’s the scourge of Lenin, the only spy ever knighted, and a master of disguise. But can the Man Of 100 Faces unmask who he really is?
Writer & Performer | Saul Boyer
Director & Dramaturg | Sam Rayner Producer | Maddy Chisholm-Scott Sound Designer | Frederick Waxman Production Company | Unleash The Llama |
"Probably the best one-man play you will see at the Edinburgh Fringe"
★★★★★ The Prickle "Saul Boyer gives a powerful physical theatre performance... commanding, compelling... he leaves nothing behind. A fantastic, powerful, thoroughly entertaining performance" ★★★★ British Theatre.com |
J E W . . . ish by Saul Boyer & Poppy Damon "The rom-com that no one asked for." January 2020 / April-May 2021 - KINGS HEAD THEATRE August 2019 - GILDED BALLOON, Edinburgh “Hilarious” ★★★★★ London Theatre Reviews "I don’t know if I’ve ever laughed quite so much at a piece of theatre" ★★★★★ Within Her Words "Fresh, raw, irreverent, in your face" ★★★★ Close Up Culture |
'We can't stay together, you thought the Gaza Strip was a burlesque act!' JEW...ish is a pitch-black, romantic comedy about true love, politics, and two millennia of inherited trauma. TJ and Max are in love; with amphetamines, the Palestine Liberation Organisation and - ooh - Jeremy Corbyn. Occasionally even each other. There's just one thing: Max is Jewish. TJ isn't. He's desperate to escape the tribe; she's looking to sign up. The twisted millennial romcom that absolutely no one asked for.
Two naïve millennials, arrogant conspiracy theorist Oscar Ayers and naïve IT-technician Lowell Blair, travel to Panama to gain
investment for their failing media company. But when Oscar pushes Lowell to pose as an insider in order to gain the scoop of the century and the pair are mistaken for drug-lords, they are drawn into the brutal world of the cartels. Recording their experience on their
smartphones, the pair are plunged into a maelstrom of mistaken-identities, backstabbing and conspiracy that takes them all the way to the Turner Prize.
The year is 2118. The Great (Orange) Dictator has enslaved the world with audiovisual propaganda. TüManz (a failing doubleact) are forced to remake the whole history of audiovisual comedy to his state-approved guidelines, but Maybot, their live-in AI drone, has a plot in place that threatens the survival of comedy itself... Part sketch show, part dystopian caper, part-musical extravaganza - this is sketch comedy like you’ve never seen it before! Unleash The Llama are back with an hour of dystopian mind-control sketch-comedy. So sit back, relax and enjoy a terror-romp into your subconscious.
‘Lotta people didn't know who I was for a long time, but now, no cat will ever forget my name.' If you crave sexy, swashbuckling, scandalous action, this new blaxploitation drama guarantees to put your ass in traction. When Caecilius Clay returns from the New World to avenge his brother, fraternal feud erupts in a chase from the seediest of opium dens to Her Majesty's court. Tarantino meets Tartuffe in Nougat for Kings: farce at its finest. Double the bodacity, twice the tenacity, more tantalising than two tangy totalitarian titties! 'You stay cool. Your humours be janglin’.'