The unmissable George Dillon

If you have never had the chance to see George Dillon in action then now is the time. 26 years ago, in the hot and hopeful summer after the Berlin Wall fell and before Saddam burned the oil wells of Kuwait, audiences and critics in Brighton and Edinburgh rushed to witness this young Brighton actor’s astonishing solo debut. Last seen at the Gardner Centre in 1997 that show, a triple bill of world premieres with an unashamed title, is returning to The Old Market in Hove for one night only.

An out-of-work actor’s frustrations explode over breakfast, an ex-skinhead recalls an exuberant racist graffiti spree with a ghostly twist, and a would-be suicide sees a lost paradise and returns with a timeless message of hope for our uncaring world…
Stunning the Punters (& Other Stories) is one man on a bare stage giving a bravura high-energy performance in three tales of imagination run wild: Master of Café Society by Steven Berkoff; Stunning the Punters by Robert Sproat; and George Dillon’s own adaptation of The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Since 1990, Brighton actor George Dillon has given nearly one thousand solo performances in seven highly acclaimed shows, including Berkoff’s Graft – Tales of an Actor (winner of a Herald ‘Angel’ award in 2000), The Gospel of Matthew, Judgement by Barry Collins and his own plays The Remembrance of Edgar Allan Poe and The Man Who Was Hamlet. He was most recently seen in Brighton starring in Adrian Bunting’s play Kemble’s Riot at B.O.A.T.
“This is one-man theatre at its most intelligent and powerful. Don’t wait to be told about it, or to read another critical paean – go and see for yourself!”

What’s On In London
Stunning The Punters (& Other Stories)
by Steven Berkoff, Robert Sproat & Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Old Market, 11a Upper Market Street, Hove, BN3 1AS, Thursday 14 July, 7.30 pm,
Tickets £10 (£7.50)
theoldmarket.com
01273 201801