REVELATIONS
Jimmy and Shirley create a Garden of Eden for their weekend guests; they provide the costumes, ambience and entertainment. But can every whim be satisfied, and is liberation always as enticing as it seems?
by Stephen Lowe
Cast (in order of speaking)
- Edward - Michael Elwyn
- Jeni - Julia Swift
- Emma - Rachel Sanders
- Tony - Gerald Kyd
- Shirley - Hetty Baynes
- Jimmy - Paul Slack
- Jack - Bertie Carvel
- Jill - Laura Rogers
Designer - Rachel Blues
Lighting - Jason Taylor
Sound - MirGregory Clarke
Casting Director - Siobhan Bracke
Assistant Director - Sam Leifer
Wardrobe Supervisor - Laura Hunt
Stage Manager - Suzanne Bourke
Deputy Stage Manager - Sharon Cooper
Assistant Stage Manager - Helena Lane-Smith
Revelations was first performed at Hampstead Theatre on 10 December 2003.
Reviews
"Lowe is a fine writer and Anthony Clark's production is both superbly acted, and genuinely thought-provoking. Ostensibly an orgy for swinging lovers, the play is a witty, Shavian talk-in with some surprise twists and a wonderful coda in the Garden of Eden with a naked Adam and Eve, that is worthy of His Dark Materials. - this is a vigorously moral play, as well as a beautifully written one, about reality t.v., pornography, sexual liberation, religion and the loneliness of the long-distance relationship."
Michael Coveney. Daily Mail.
"wickedly entertaining play about three couples drawn together by the internet for an orgy in the Lake District - often cringe-makingly funny- a delightfully good-natured sex comedy!-
Charles Spencer. Daily Telegraph.