I, Homunculus

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Approaching Anarchy

Posted on | October 2, 2009 | No Comments

We are a scant 13 days from opening The Man Who Was Thursday, and I cannot tell you how excited I am to be a part of this production. Equal parts post-Victorian thriller and outright farce, I get to play both sides of my deepest wishes: I get to be a Bondesque hero with all the self-assuredness and repartee, and I get to wallow in the destruction of that facade as that hero comes up against an enemy who more than outclasses him. (In fact, I’ve been writing myself into that role for a few years now.)

For your Friday delectation – and for those of you who haven’t already seen it when it made its Facebook & Twitter debut a week or so ago – I present the trailer for The Man Who Was Thursday.

By curious happenstance, this trio of young punks (who were just pups when we hocked poor improv as part of Edinburgh’s The Improverts – and who themselves trafficked in Victoriana for their first two sketch shows about the fictitious Brothers Faversham) are working on a bit of anarchy themselves, writing a 45-minute piece on Guy Fawkes (of Gunpowder Plot fame) for BBC Radio 4, to air on (remember, remember) the 5th of November.

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