CHAU1504 This is a rare opportunity to secure this 2007 eight page souvenir for the European Premiere of Red Light Winter a sex play by Adam Rapp performed in Dundrum in Ireland hand signed by three of the cast (see image 2) in very good (bar small places mostly great) condition and all the signatures are undedicated too.
Purple Heart is now the resident company at the Mill, and Red Light Winter is their first production to get full Arts Council funding. "It makes a real difference, " says their artistic director, Stewart Roche. "People don't have to go and do their parttime jobs after rehearsals."
Roche is on stage in this production, playing Davis, described by Rapp as a "sexual carnivore".
The sex scenes are difficult, he says, but ultimately it's all about technique. And Davis "gets off lightly", he says. He doesn't appear to mean that literally. His mother is attending on Thursday, though he doesn't think she's bringing as many of her friends as to their previous productions.
The obvious question for Roche: is he playing to type? Speaking on the phone, he jokes, "it wouldn't be the first time I've played this kind of part". Minutes after the call ends, he sends a text: "My girlfriend will execute me if she reads the piece and I don't deny playing against type on the sexual carnivore front.
Will you add it in and save my ass?" Done, Stewart - though it might be easier to save your ass if you weren't baring it on stage.