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Kick for Touch
by Peter Gill
National Theatre
Cottesloe Theatre, 15 February 1983
Kick for Touch tells, in jumbled fragments, the story of a love triangle between two brothers, Joe and Jim, and Joe's wife Eileen. A difficult childhood has left the brothers loving, jealous and incredibly close, so close that — ultimately — they crush Eileen between them.
Length: about 1 hour. There is no interval
Gill's work has "an explosive concentration and lyrical integrity rare, not to say unique, among living British playwrights." Plays and Players, 1983
"...scenes blend into one another, disregarding time and space; the relationships dissolve and reform; mates are revealed as brothers, and wives as eternal mothers." Observer, 1983
"Gill's production leaves you in no doubt that this marks an attempt to render the mess of ordinary living in a style as exquisitely bare as a piece of Shaker furniture." The Times, 1983
| Joe | Ken Cranham | Theatre includes at the Royal Court: Ubu Roi, The Ruffian on the Stail;
Loot (also in the West End and on Broadway), Saved, Narrow Road to the Deep
North, Early Morning, Magnificence, The Tooth of Crime, The London Cuckolds,
Tibetan Inroads. Other work in London: The Entertainer (Greenwich), The
Doctors Dilemma (Mermaid), Entertaining Mr Sloane (Duke of York's). RSC:
The Iceman Cometh, Ivanov. NT: Comedians (in the West End), Strawberry Fields,
The Passion, Old Movies, The Country Wife, Love Letters on Blue Papel; The
Caretakel; From Kipling to Vietnam (Platform Performance). Films include:
Oliver!, Brother Sun and Sister Moon, Joseph Andrews. TV includes: Sling Your Hook, Canterbury Tales, Danger UXB, The Sound of the Guns, The Chauffeur and the Lady, The Sin Bin, Donkeys Years, Butterflies Don't Count, La Ronde, The Caretakel; The Merchant of Venice, 'Tis Pity Shes a Whore, The Bell, Therese Raquin, Brideshead Revisited, Shine on Harvey Moon, Reilly. |
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| Jim | James Hazeldine | Theatre includes repertory at Manchester Library, Liverpool Playhouse,
Newcastle Playhouse, Birmingham Rep, Nottingham Playhouse. In London: Journey
of the Fifth Horse, Narrow Road to the Deep North, Early Morning, Over Gardens
Out, Crete and Sergeant Pepper, The Old Ones, Small Change (all at the Royal
Court), The Foursome (Fortune), Cato Street (Young Vic). With the RSC: The
Fool, Troilus and Cressida, Love Girl and the Innocent, Timon of Athens.
Films include: Nicholas and Alexandra, The Ruling Class, The National Health,
The Wall. TV includes: Sovereigns Company, The Long Distance Piano Player; Everybody Say Cheese. Tales of Piccadilly, Look Back in Angel; The Cost of Loving, Isaac Newton, Forgotten Love Songs, Kids, Murder at the Wedding, Aren't We All, Omega Factor, The Circle Complex, The Trials of Oscar Slater, John David, Macbeth, One Fine Summer. |
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| Eileen | Jane Lapotaire | Theatre includes two years with Bristol Old Vic, repertory at Nottingham
Playhouse. With the NT at the Old Vic: The Dance of Death, A Flea in her
Ear; The Way of the World, Macrune's Guevara, The White Devil, The Travails
of Sancho Panza, The Merchant of Venice, The Captain of Kopenick. Young
Vic: Scapino, The Taming of the Shrew (both also later in New York), Oedipus,
Measure for Measure. RSC: Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Uncle Vanya, Love's Labour's
Lost, Piaf (also in the West End and in New York, winning Best Actress awards
from SWET, Plays & Players, Variety Club of Great Britain, and Tony). Prospect:
A Month in the Country, A Room with a View Riverside: As You Like It. Films
include: Isadora, Peiformance, Antony and Cleopatra, One Of Our Dinosaurs
is Missing. TV includes: Love and Mr Lewisham, The Edwardians, The Black Dog, Edward VII; The Devil's Crown, Marie Curie, Antony and Cleopatra, The Barretts of Wimpole Street. |
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| Director | Peter Gill | ||
| Designer | Alison Chitty | ||
| Lighting | Stephen Wentworth | ||
| Production Manager | Jason Barnes | ||
| Stage Manager | John Caulfield | ||
| Deputy Stage Manager | Sarah Parkin | ||
| Assistant Stage Manager | Sue Millin | ||
| Alison Rankin | |||
| Sound | Andrew Lillywhite | ||
| Assistant to the Designer | Paul Ghirardani | ||
| Assistant to the Lighting Designer | Ian Williams | ||
| Assistant to the Production Manager | Jem Wilsher | ||
| Programme cover and cast photo | John Haynes |