Nine & The Last Nickel at Cygnet
Cygnet’s graduating actors have begun working with Jemma Gross on two strong and wonderful plays, Nine and The Last Nickel by American writer Jane Shepard.
Jemma first excited Exeter audiences when she brought Gary Henderson’s Skin Tight to Cygnet Theatre during IGNITE 2012. Her production of Chicken Shop with Epsilon productions won the West End Frame’s London Fringe Production of the Year Award in 2014.
These contrasting pieces show the versatility of two actors in different roles. Women who find themselves in extreme circumstances, develop ways to cope and transcend them, displaying the range and power of the human spirit with humour and pathos.
Nine is a harrowing, funny and tender account of the psychological price of survival.
Two women held against their will, locked in a room and chained apart: language is their only currency and comes to mean everything, when a single word becomes the hanging point between life and death.
The Last Nickel explores another long night for Jamie, with an obnoxious sister and a trio of sardonic puppets to keep her awake.
An unmissable evening of great tenderness and truth
Nine and The Last Nickel can be seen at Cygnet Theatre from Monday 9th March– Saturday 14th March at 7.30pm
Tickets £10 (£8 under 18) Age restriction 14+
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