Ashley Margolis Archives - North West End UK

How does our history get passed on and who is in charge of keeping them alive? Memoriam is a company buying real memories, extracting them and making them available on their software to experience. This is a full body sensory experience of any memory you choose be it childbirth, swimming with dolphins or even piloting a plane. But when the numbers are looking low for next year, top boss Chris (Ben Wiggins) looks to top buyer Rachel (Rachel Barry) for the ‘Premium asset’ she has within her own family. Memoriam is stark and brutal in the reflection of the human need for content and poses an important question: do we use VR to reflect the true nature of human history’s most horrific moments in order to feel the true scale of the event. Rachel’s grandmother Rivka (Beverley Klein) is the ...

Everyone knows that the film Jaws was a box-office smash. It was based on a best-selling novel by Peter Benchley and one critic said of the book, “None of the humans are particularly likable or interesting” and they felt the shark was the most compelling character. Spielberg agreed with them, which is why he changed the characters in the movie after deciding that the book's characters were unlikeable. This play concentrates on the three stars of the film, Roy Schneider (Dan Fredenburgh), Richard Dreyfuss (Ashley Margolis) and Robert Shaw (Ian Shaw) who are forced to wait around on the boat while the film’s techies try to fix Bruce, the broken animatronic shark. At first, it appears that these actors, like the characters in the book, are not “particularly likeable or interesting.” ...

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Memoriam – Southwark Playhouse Borough

The Shark is Broken – Lowry