PREVIEW: The Show (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Tom Burke (The Souvenir), Ellie Bamber (Nocturnal Animals), Babou Ceesay (Free Fire), Christopher Fairbank (Lady Macbeth), Antonia Campbell-Hughes (Albert Nobbs), Darrell D’Silva (Show Pieces), Roger Ashton-Griffiths (Christopher Robin), Richard Dillane (Oranges and Sunshine), Siobhan Hewlett (Hummingbird), Oaklee Pendergast (The Impossible), Ethan Rouse (Where Hands Touch), Alan Moore (Show Pieces), Sheila Atim (Halcyon Heights), Josie Taylor (Tamara Drewe), Ian Barritt (Wilt)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Mitch Jenkins (Show Pieces), director; Alan Moore (Unearthing), writer, composer; Thomas Brown (Show Pieces), Michael Elliott (Jawbone) and Jim Mooney (Eaten by Lions), producers; Andrew Broder (Show Pieces) and Adam Kidd Drucker (Show Pieces), composers; Simon Tindall (The Wedding Video), cinematographer; Colin Goudie (Monsters), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Fletcher Dennis (Burke), a mysterious criminal, arrives in an equally strange town in Northampton, where he intends to locate a stolen artefact for a client. However, he soon finds himself descending further and further into a bizarre underworld of eccentric figures which threaten to blue the line between fantasy and reality…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

The legendary Alan Moore creates a world as mad and nihilistic as he is, in a surreal nightmare that gets more and more fascinating the deeper it goes.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

MONDAY 18TH OCTOBER 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

AVAILABLE TO RENT/BUY ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS, INCLUDING AMAZON PRIME VIDEO

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