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The Man Who Was Hamlet
The Gospel of Matthew
Graft
Against the Odds
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Hell & Other Tales
Hell / Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Judgement
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Dillon's solo shows

STUNNING THE PUNTERS
by Steven Berkoff, Robert Sproat & Fyodor Dostoevsky
directed by Laurence Boswell

Three stories of imagination run wild! An out-of-work actor's frustration explodes over breakfast in Steven Berkoff's Master of Cafe Society, an ex-skinhead tells a tale with a ghostly twist in the title story by Glaswegian writer, Robert Sproat, and a would-be suicide dreams of paradise in Dillon's own adaptation of The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Stunning the Punters is a breathtakingly arrogant name to give to a show; it is also entirely accurate.
THE INDEPENDENT

 

JUDGEMENT
by Barry Collins

An epic monologue (three hours with no interval) telling a true story of murder and cannibalism... During the Second World War seven soviet officers were imprisoned in the cellar of a hilltop monastery in Poland.  Sixty days later only two were rescued.  They had survived by killing and eating their comrades.  The two crazed men were fed and then shot.  But what if one of them had been sane enough to describe and defend his actions... 

George Dillon's performance as the 'normal' cannibal, retelling and defending his actions before his judges, has been hailed by the author as quite unlike any other for its uncompromising intensity. Although not listed in the programme, Judgement was a hit at the 1991 Edinburgh Festival and toured the UK in Spring 1992.

If you want to enjoy some unforgettable and brilliant acting, go and see Judgement. Dillon is undoubtedly one of the best actors I've ever seen perform on the Fringe. EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS

Dillon's mesmerising performance as one of the cannibalistic officers should sweep the proliferating Fringe awards. THE OBSERVER

George Dillon, as Vukhov, gives a virtuoso performance of awesome intensity. His portrayal of the terror, irony, tenderness, and even humour, of Vukhov's awful; history transfixes the audience for nearly three hours. It is a red-raw theatrical experience of rare depth and power. THE SCOTSMAN

 

Hell & Other Tales
by Steven Berkoff

Three savagely funny & highly intimate stories of loneliness by the maverick genius of British theatre, Steven Berkoff, performed by his acclaimed protege, George Dillon. An actor takes stock of his world in The Secret of Capitalism, both sides of a sordid brief encounter between failed actor Harry and Doris the cleaner are exposed in Say a Prayer for Me, and finally the abandoned and heart-broken speaker pleads for some sympathy and company in Hell, a stark and chilling glimpse of the anatomy of despair.

Say a Prayer for Me & Hell was a hit at the 1992 Edinburgh Festival and on tour in Spring 1993.  In August 1993, The Secret of Capitalism made up the trilogy at the Gate Theatre in London.

Steven Berkoff's close collaborator and ardent disciple, George Dillon, demonstrates, not for the first time, his sensitive and intelligent understanding of his mentor's work in this provocative performance of two fiercely contrasting Berkoff short stories.  And in the process, Dillon also powerfully reminds us of the technical control, range and intensity that mark him out as one of the most distinctive and challenging solo performers around. Dillon combines the precision and timing of the practised story-teller with the physical expressiveness of the accomplished actor, to expose a rich mixture of humour, anger, futility and human sadness. He immerses himself in his material and suffers.  Dillon brings measured delivery, carefully stylised visual imagery and above all the degree of physical and emotional vulnerability needed to translate powerful prose into disturbing, dangerous theatre.
THE GUARDIAN

The Remembrance Of Edgar Allan Poe
by George Dillon/Edgar A Poe

The life and soul of the arch priest of Gothic horror, and the revelation of a love that lives beyond the grave. Compiled entirely from Poe's short stories, poems, essays and letters, The Remembrance Of Edgar Allan Poe reveals how the Master of the Macabre drew on the tragedies in his own life to create unforgettable works of beauty, mystery and imagination.  From the early battles with his adoptive father, John Allan, and the big-nosed comedy of Lionizing, though the horror of his young wife's sickness and the teeth-pulling obsession of Berenice, to the final years of mourning and The Raven's famous haunting refrain of "Nevermore!", Dillon has woven a dream-like tribute to a life of undying hope, passion, poverty, disease and drunkenness.  

During the 1993 Spring tour of Say a Prayer for Me & Hell, Dillon previewed and shaped his tribute to Poe under the working title A Never-Ending Remembrance.  The final version was acclaimed at the 1993 Edinburgh Festival.

In this brilliant monologue Dillon's performance is astonishingly versatile, a tour de force, driving together the passions, concerns and torments of this monomaniac genius with a determination and vigour that is exhausting to watch, let alone perform.
THE SCOTSMAN


Forthcoming Vital Theatre Dates:

2010

BRIGHTON

Man Who Was Hamlet Thu 29th & Fri 30th Jul 2010, (19:30) BRIGHTON,
Nightingale Theatre

EDINBURGH FESTIVAL

Man Who Was Hamlet Thu 5th - Mon 30th Aug 2010, (19:10 - 20:40) EDINBURGH,
Hill Street Theatre

On Tour in Autumn 2010

(Some dates are still to be confirmed)

Man Who Was Hamlet Thu 9th Sep 2010 LYME REGIS,
Marine Theatre
Workshop Fri 10th Sep 2010 BRISTOL
Gospel of Matthew by Candlelight Sat 11th Sep 2010 RUGELEY,
Ridware Theatre
Man Who Was Hamlet Fri 17th Sep 2010 HAVANT,
The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre
Graft Thu 23rd Sep 2011 HOLT,
Gresham's Auden Theatre
Gospel of Matthew by Candlelight Fri 24th Sep 2010 COLCHESTER,
St Martin's
Man Who Was Hamlet Thu 30th Sep 2010 LEICESTER,
The Y Theatre
Graft Mon 4th Oct 2010 LEEDS,
Stage @ Leeds
Gospel of Matthew Wed 6th Oct 2010 LUTON,
Library Theatre
Graft Fri 8th Oct 2010 WELWYN G. C.
Campus West Theatre
Man Who Was Hamlet Thu 21st Oct 2010
& Fri 22nd Oct 2010
HULL,
Hull Truck Theatre
Gospel of Matthew by Candlelight Thu 28th Oct 2010
& Fri 29th Oct 2010
GUILDFORD,
Yvonne Arnaud Studio

2011

(Some dates are still to be confirmed)

Graft Sat 15th Jan 2011 AYLESBURY,
Arts Centre
Graft Mon 17th Jan 2011 TONBRIDGE,
E M Forster Theatre
Graft Tue 18th Jan 2011 CRAWLEY,
The Hawth
Man Who Was Hamlet Wed 19th Jan 2011 UPPINGHAM,
Uppingham Theatre
Man Who Was Hamlet Fri 21st Jan 2011 BASINGSTOKE,
Central Studio
Man Who Was Hamlet Sat 22nd Jan 2011 NEW MILTON,
Forest Arts Centre
Gospel of Matthew by Candlelight (t.b.c.) Fri 4th Feb 2011 HALESWORTH,
The Cut
Man Who Was Hamlet Thu 3rd Mar 2011
& Fri 4th Mar 2011
POOLE
Lighthouse
Gospel of Matthew Sat 5th Mar 2011 NORWICH,
Maddermarket Tehatre
Man Who Was Hamlet Tue 22nd Mar 2011 DARLINGTON,
Arts Centre
Gospel of Matthew Wed 23rd Mar 2011 SOUTH SHIELDS
Customs House
t.b.c. Tue 24th Mar 2011 KENDAL,
Brewery Arts Centre
t.b.c. Tue 25th Mar 2011 WHITEHAVEN,
Rosehill Theatre
Graft Wed 30th Mar 2011 TAUNTON,
Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre
Man Who Was Hamlet Thu 31st Mar 2011 BRIDGWATER,
Arts Centre
Gospel of Matthew Thu 7th Apr 2011 BRACKNELL,
South Hill Park
Gospel of Matthew (t.b.c.) Thu 14th Apr 2011 HALIFAX,
Square Chapel
Gospel of Matthew Fri 15th Apr 2011 LEEDS,
Carriageworks Theatre
Gospel of Matthew (t.b.c.) Wed 20th Apr 2011 CHELMSFORD,
Civic Theatre
Gospel of Matthew Thu 21st Apr 2011 SUDBURY,
Quay Theatre
 
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