Che Walker's ZELDA To Open At Charing Cross Hotel, April 28

Zelda Sayre is the belle of Alabama, the outlandish good-time girl who captures the heart and imagination of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. Their life together is one great party, from the madness of Jazz Age New York to the gin-soaked glamour of the Riviera. Then Zelda takes up writing herself - and more than her marriage begins to crack up.

Based on the letters and fiction of America's first flapper, Zelda has been reconceptualised by award-winning director Ché Walker in a production that captures the glamour and decadence of the roaring Twenties in the plush intimacy of a hotel room.

Come and join Zelda and celebrate the inspired madness of the Jazz Age in a suite at The Charing Cross Hotel.

A one-woman site-specific performance based on the life of Zelda Fitzgerald opens in a new production directed by Ché Walker on 28 April 2011 for a limited three week run at The Charing Cross Hotel.

26 April - 14 May 2011 at 7.00pm and 9.00pm

Press Performances: Thursday 28 April 2011 at 7.00pm
Friday, 29 April 2011 at 7.00pm

PLEASE NOTE: There is a limited capacity of 15 per night so booking in advance is essential

A version of Zelda premiered to a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival in 2006. It was revived at the Leicester Square Theatre in 2010. This is the first time it has been performed in a site-specific venue.

Writer and actor Kelly Burke trained the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Theatre credits include Avocado (King's Head Theatre), Green (part of Vibrant! A Festival of Finborough Playwrights, Finborough Theatre), Agnes of God (Federal Theatre, Denver), The Misanthrope (Bartlett Theatre, New York). Radio credits include the role of Vivien Sternwood in The Big Sleep (BBC Radio 4) opposite Toby Stephens.

Ché Walker's directing credits include Been So Long (Royal Court Theatre, Young Vic), Achidi J's Final Hours, Etta Jenks (Finborough Theatre), Roots Spectacular Box Dem (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry). Film credits include Crocodile, At It Again, I Knew You'd Come Back, Time is Love. Ché's playwriting debut, Been So Long, premiered at the Royal Court Theatre and was runner-up for The John Whiting Award and the Meyer-Whitworth Award. It subsequently transferred to the Young Vic where it won the Musical Theatre Matters Judge's Award, and was nominated for the Evening Standard Award for Best Musical and What's On Stage Magazine Award for Best New Musical. His second play, Fleshwound, also premiered at the Royal Court where it won both the George Devine Award and the Arts Council Writer of the Future Award before transferring to The Galway International Arts Festival. Crazy Love (Paines Plough) won the Peter Brook Award in 2008, the same year that his play The Frontline made theatrical history as the first contemporary-set new play to be performed at Shakespeare's Globe. Lovesong, his one-man musical in collaboration with UK soul legend Omar, toured nationally in 2010, was nominated for Musical Theatre Matters Award for Best Book, and will tour US and Canada in summer of 2011. Ché is currently under commission to the BBC and English Touring Theatre, and is adapting Been So Long into a screenplay for Shimmer Productions.

 

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