Dark Sublime Tickets
Michael Dennis's debut play Dark Sublime starring Star Trek actress Marina Sirtis heads to the West End's Trafalgar Studios 2Performance dates
25 June - 3 August 2019
Run time: 2 hours 30 minutes (including interval)
Includes interval
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Oli arrives at the door of Marianne, a now-forgotten sci-fi TV icon, impatient to make an impression, to make a friend. Marianne, a jobbing actress, knows about waiting – for the phone to ring, for her best friend to see her differently, for her turn at something more substantial than a half-remembered role on a cult TV show. He wants an autograph; she doesn’t want anything from him – or so she thinks. Yet as they start to explore each other’s worlds, they begin to discover what every good relationship needs: time and space.
Exploring the complexities of relationships, especially in the LGBTQ community, and the contrast in lived experiences across generations, Michael Dennis has crafted a story that is as much about joy and heartbreak as it is about quarries and transmat beams.
Making her West End debut, Star Trek: The Next Generation star Marina Sirtis will take the lead as Marianne in the world premiere of Dark Sublime, directed by Andrew Keates (As Is and Dessa Rose – Trafalgar Studios). Further casting, including an iconic voice of Science Fiction will be announced in 2019.
Dark Sublime is a love-letter to British sci-fi television – those that make it and those that adore it.
Special notes
The performance on 8 July will also feature a Supporters Gala with the creative team and cast.
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There will be a sign-interpreted performance on Wednesday, 17 July 2019 at 7.45pm and on Tuesday, 30 July 2019 at 7.45pm. There will be a relaxed performance on Tuesday, 2 July 2019 at 7.45pm.Recent Reviews
wow being so close to stage you get close up to stars of play feel part of it.
Very enjoyable play. Good production. Nice welcome from staff.
Funny and different. Clearly a lot of work went into the details which I really appreciated.
Excellent, imaginative play with fantastic performances from all involved. Fringe at its best.
excellent play and actors
Brilliant show, amazing venue, and all the cast were superb - wonderfully well acted and in such an intimate setting, the cast did an amazing job.
Meta-scifi meets real life
What a great evening! Marina Sirtis was enchanting and sweetly funny, with a depth of sadness to her performance that underpinned the delicious humour. Jacqueline King and Sophie Ward were great, Kwaku Mills' Oli had a hidden strength which belied his surface naivety and Simon Thorp played homage to the best British sci-fi heroes with aplomb. The play was a joyful celebration of the glory days of British science fiction (fantastic set and lightning design; wonderful Scottish take on Orac by the voice of Mark Gatiss) but also a melancholy meditation on the road not taken and a paean to the value of love, whatever form it takes.
Great acting. Cozy theatre.
An ensemble of talented actors deliver an engrossing, engaging and entertaining show.
Marina Sirtis was great
Excellent show, very intimate setting. Very funny show, fabulously well acted, such a clever storyline and well cast too. Enjoyed it so much I would go again
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