billy   budd

by Hermann Melville
Southwark  Playhouse, Summer 2013

****
A production that both delights and shocks. The ending
does not so much creep upon you as slam into you. 
What's On Stage

2 OFFIE nominations 
Best Actor (Charlie Archer)
Best Ensemble

Production
Seb Harcombe (Director), Nicolai Hart Hansen (Designer),
Howard Hudson (Lighting Design).

Cast
Charlie Archer (Billy), Iain Batchelor (Jenkins),
Hugo Bolton (Squeak), Luke Courtier (Vere), Joel Gorf (Dansker),
Chris Hammond (O'Daniel), Jonathan Leinmuller (Talbot),
Gerrard McArthur (Claggart), Oliver King (Ratcliffe).

Swells with an authentic atmosphere of clanging metal and booming
bass shanties. It carries its audience away with a volume and muscle
that almost press-gangs us into an emotional response. 
Time Out

Challenging, passionate and at times downright menacing 
The Stage

Secret/Heart have sailed a memorable piece of nautical theatre
into the harbour of the new southwark playhouse 
The Public Reviews