“Sod the wine, I want to suck on the writing. This man White is an instinctive writer, bloody rare to find one who actually pulls it off, as in still gets a meaning across with concision. Sharp arbitrage of speed and risk, closest thing I can think of to Cicero’s ‘motus continuum animi.’

Probably takes a drink or two to connect like that: he literally paints his senses on the page.”


DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little, Ludmila’s Broken English, Lights Out In Wonderland ... Winner: Booker prize; Whitbread prize; Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman prize; James Joyce Award from the Literary & Historical Society of University College Dublin)


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15 February 2018

BOTTLE-O HAMLET HITS THE FRINGE


"I tell it how it really is for me - an actor who has to work in a bottle-shop to pay his bills, whilst auditioning for plays, ads, films, musicals, anything." 

So says Nick Mercer of his role in Hamlet at the Bottle-O, or The Wineshop Monologues written by returned (whew) Adelaider Pat Wilson and directed by her longtime collaborator, Adrian Barnes. With a warning of moselle-fruity vernacular, this 50-minute monologue is sponsored by the good Saturno family, of Longview Wines (below) at Macclesfield. As owners of the Booze Brothers liquor chain, some of those Saturnos have learned a thing or two about life behind the bottle-o stoop.  And acting.

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