Episode #003 - Working With Philip Ridley

Next on ‘Working With Philip Ridley’ we have a special treat in store! Joining us for the Ridley Zoom we have award-winning theatre director David Mercatali.

David has directed 6 of Philip Ridley’s premiers, including MOONFLEECE and TENDER NAPALM! David also directed Ridley’s RADIANT VERMIN at the Tobacco Factory, Bristol and the Soho Theatre, London, before taking it to 59E59 in New York and In 2015 David’s production of TONIGHT WITH DONNY STIXX played at the Edinburgh Fringe at the Pleasance Theatre.

★★★★★ “pushes the edges of what a play can be… reveals something incredibly truthful and humane” Reviews Hub

★★★★ “directed with great brio by David Mercatali and superbly acted” Michael Billington, The Guardian

★★★★ “They are both very clever and gloriously silly plays and it is an absolute treat to watch them staged so well by director David Mercatali” Daisy Bowie-Sell, WhatsOnStage

★★★★ “David Mercatali’s production is excellent: precise, playful and tough.” Andrzej Lukowski, Time Out

★★★★ “David Mercatali’s impressively crisp revival” Henry Hitchings, Evening Standard

★★★★ “pumps with narrative energy… The cast is super slick… outrageously funny… Director David Mercatali’s confident touch allows the production to embrace the bizarreness and beauty of these plays. And that these experimental pieces are at once so moving and intellectually challenging is almost mind-blowing.” Sally Hales, Exeunt

★★★★ “a breathtakingly confident imagination and thrilling theatrical panache…  David Mercatali’s precise and exciting revival…  an event that is both playful and genre-busting, excruciating and exhilarating, alarming and truthful.” Aleks Sierz, The Arts Desk

★★★★ “Under the direction of David Mercatali, the domestic veneer of the two one-act plays is kept brightly polished, yet a palpable anxiety bubbles beneath.” The Stage

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