A Desire to Kill on the Tip of the Tongue

Archive Listings for A Desire to Kill on the Tip of the Tongue

T01224813944 (BROCK02) Translation Mark Ravenhill.
to 19 May 02	Brockley Jack Studio Theatre, Outer London :: V299 listing details L02032099325
T1561777458 (FRINGE01) Company Wisepart Productions. Producer Alexandra Gammie ([Guy Chapman Associates]). Translation Mark Ravenhill. Director Richard Twyman. Design Imogen Lock. Performer Charlie Cattrall. Performer Leo Conville. Performer Will Irvine. Performer Taylor Lilley. Performer Jenny Tollady. Performer Helen Wallace.
4 Aug 01 to 26 Aug 01	Fringe, Edinburgh :: V1059 listing details L0151817835
T01058250756 (ADTK97) Translation Noelle Morris. Translation Mark Ravenhill.
19 Nov 97	The Ambassadors Theatre, West End :: V382 listing details L0340545780

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Play :: A Desire to Kill...shows a side of France unknown to the holiday brochures; a hopeless underclass of directionless youth filling their days with drinking, shagging and fantasies of violence that sometimes become reality. Rou is the group's smart arse lad-about-town, bragging about his affair with a married woman to his mates Vic and Poupon outside yet another nightclub he is barred from. In this atmosphere of laddish competitiveness, on the night of a full moon, aggression flares up at the slightest insult, and Rou's swaggering finally inspire his 'friends' to stand up to him. The secret that comes to light unexpectedly pushes Poupon to the edge of sanity, with explosive results. A Desire to Kill... is a revealing snapshot of dark, brutal world, where the only motivations are lust, desire and the search for gratification, until the mask of bravado is stripped away and the vision of loneliness it reveals becomes unbearable.

Author

Xavier Durringer