Our production of Justin Butcher’s incredible
one-man show, Scaramouche Jones, or the Seven White Masks, is set
to take place in the Green Room, a new intimate venue at the newly refurbished Waggon
and Horses pub in Surbiton.
Tacit has created a unique theatrical space, into which comes Scaramouche Jones, a
charismatic 99 year-old clown with a wealth of stories to tell from his journey
through the ups and downs of the twentieth century.
We meet our narrator as the festivities begin on millennium eve, his 100th birthday,
and the night of his final and most important performance. He relates his birth
at the turn of the 20th century in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, tells of his childhood
in slavery, his rambling across Saharan Africa, his gypsy life in Milan, and his
eventual arrival in London, the home of his mysterious English father. Along the
way he meets a spectrum of characters, each with their own profound effect on his
life.
The play was brilliantly received when it premiered at the Dublin Theatre Festival
in 2001, starring Pete Postlethwaite, being described as:
“a piece of such memorable theatre that it reverberates in your memory long after
the clown has pulled his final funny face.”
-Irish Independent.
Director.............JONATHAN CONSTANT
Producer.............LEO STEELE
Designer ............VICTORIA COLLINS
Sound Designer.......NIGEL COLLINS
Scaramouche Jones....TOM DAPLYN
Crew.................ANDY MOSELEY
EMMA BURTON
Press Officer........REBECCA COLLINS
Box Office...........KIM D'SANTOS
JAMES GOLDWATER