MODERATION By Kevin Kautzman Opens At Hope Theatre In March

Over Here Theatre and Bad Mouth Theatre have announced casting for the UK premiere of Moderation at the Hope Theatre, 19 March to 5 April.

Robbie Curran, co-star of BBC's The Cleaner will star with Alice Victoria Winslow, actor and screenwriter of Netflix's Persuasion, in new American play Moderation at the Hope Theatre in Islington.

Robbie Curran starred opposite Greg Davies in the Christmas special of BBC One sitcom The Cleaner, for which he was also on the writing team. Other TV & Film credits include: The Movement, Celestial Reserve, Possessed, and BBC's Doctors. For theatre, Robbie has worked at Soho Theatre, Nottingham Playhouse, the Pleasance Theatre, and performed his writing debut Thomas to sold-out audiences at VAULT Festival.

Alice Victoria Winslow is an actor, writer and clown from New York. She co-wrote an adaptation of Jane Austen’s PERSUASION which was released on Netflix in 2022, directed by Carrie Cracknell and starring Dakota Johnson. Her film ALICE IS WONDERLAND is set to shoot this year, directed by Sophie Reine and produced by Andrew Lazar. Her short film #BLUEBOAR, based on a solo show she wrote and performed in London, premiered at SeriesFest in 2020, where it won the Jury Award and the Audience Favourite Award for the Late Night category. Next up will be adapting a biography of Madame Restell, the Victorian abortionist, for Just John Films. Alice graduated with an MA in Acting from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Before Guildhall, Alice studied playwriting at Brown University. She has also earned two official certificates from Ecole Philippe Gaulier.

Moderation is a startling dark comedy about a pair of social media moderators who become increasingly "brainsick" from the disturbing content they're forced to view at work. A fast-paced cross between the social surrealism of Pinter and a season premiere of Black Mirror, Moderation is a ripped-from-the-headlines, doom-scroll thriller about the effect social media has on our increasingly fractured society.

Lydia Parker will direct and is also artistic director of Over Here Theatre Company, dedicated to presenting the best of new American writing to UK audiences. Lydia has directed Christopher Durang's An Actor's Nightmare at the Park Theatre, Belvedere and Maybe, Probably at the Old Red Lion Theatre, Dolphins and Sharks and Our American Cousin at the Finborough Theatre, amongst many other productions for Over Here Theatre and other companies.

Playwright Kevin Kautzman is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter and co-founder of Bad Mouth Theatre Company. Originally from North Dakota, Kevin first studied playwriting at the Royal Court's Young Writers' Programme and has received both the Jerome and Michener Fellowships as well as a number of awards, including the UK International Student Playscript Competition, and has been a finalist for the Yale Drama Series, the Pen Center, and the Princess Grace Awards.

Dream of Perfect Sleep, produced at the Finborough Theatre, was nominated for an Offie and is available from Oberon and Broadway Play Publishing. His work for the stage has appeared in the UK and US at venues including Broad Horizons, Dixon Place, the Finborough, the Living Theatre, The King's Head, the Playwrights' Center, Stage West and Theatre503.

Moderation will have lighting design by Jack Hathaway, Projection Design by Abbie Lucas, Sound Design by Ryan Condon and Original Music by Shawn Phillips, produced by Suzette Coon.

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