Project Description
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‘The play is refreshingly, honestly and strongly about now. Ask no more’
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‘The performances are immensely enjoyable. Anthony Welsh exudes raw charm as Sam. Ian Gelder combines dignity and pain as George. And Olivia Hallinan is both spiky and magnetic as Joey’
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‘Young, full of spluttering energy and – has real fire in its belly about the need to retain you optimism in a cruel world…Hickson really is a little bit special’
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‘Radiant – wonderfully witty – you will be left wanting but for all the right reasons’
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‘Precocious talent wins battle for hearts and minds’
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‘James Dacre directs with delicacy, Anthony Welsh makes a fine Sam and Ian Gelder brings out all the complexities and poignancies in the role of George. I hope we may see Hickson properly in the West End before too long’
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‘This is a lovey, compassionate play full of old-fashioned virtues and it gets a production to match its filigree delicacy’
Precious Little Talent is the story of two 20-somethings graduating into a whorl that’s sold then down the river. Londoner Joey’s got a first class degree, 20K worth of debt and works in a pub. It’s Christmas and she flees to New York in a bid to find comfort with her estranged father. Just a the world seems to have shunned her, so will he. Yet in the face of such rejection, world-weary Joey falls in love with an idealistic young American and learns what it is to have hope in the future.
With its haunting contemporary themes about a father desperate not to forget his daughter and two young people determined not to be forgotten by the whorl, Precious Little Talent will strike a chord with audiences of all ages.
Creatives
Writer – Ella Hickson
Director – James Dacre
Designer – Lucy Osborne
Lighting Designer – Mark Jonathan
Sound Designer & Composer – Emma Laxton
Movement Director – Georgina Lamb
Dialect – Charmian Hoare
Casting Director – Anji Carroll CDG
Press & Publicity – Susie Safavi PR
Cast
Olivia Hallinan
Anthony Welsh
Ian Gelder
Trafalgar Studios.