A NIGHT OF SUPPER AND STELLAR THEATRE
Saturday 16th November at 18.30 | Coffee Room | £95 Per Person
Supper and theatre is a well-established and much-loved West End ritual. Now add the Rag to theatre land. On Saturday November 16th, an evening of high drama will be served up in a transformed Coffee Room along with the club’s finest fare for what will be a ground-breaking occasion.
For one night only, Stellar Theatre presents “Two Shot”, a play specially written for the Rag that will be performed for your pleasure followed by supper. For the usual excellence on your plate and in your glass you will be joined at your tables by the actors, once they have taken a bow, and those behind what will be a reading of this comedy drama. So a chance to meet and chat with the cast once the curtain has fallen. Likewise, those behind the evening’s stagecraft.
On offer: fine dining with a starter course of comedy drama entertainment to ensure you begin the evening as you mean to go on.
In all; a – literally – Stellar night. In short, Theatreland extended to include St. James’s Square. In effect, entertainment, engagement and unique insight for members keen on theatre in a way that clubland has rarely mustered.
Two Shot: a comedy drama written and directed by Paul Greenwood.
Tom and Annie are stalwart thespians searching for the ultimate role to play. The phone rings and Tom learns he has struck lucky. But what of Annie’s fortunes…
Starring Peter Wight as Tom and Lorien Haynes as Annie (with stage direction reading by Melissa Greenwood).
Fresh from performing for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Peter Wight is an actor of many years standing, starting in Z-Cars and featuring since on stage and our screens for six decades including in shows like The Crown, the recent BBC adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, and the film of Ian McEwan’s Booker short-listed novel, Atonement. This familiar face will be joined by Lorien Haynes for an animated reading of Paul Greenwood’s Two Shot. Lorien, who splits her time between Los Angeles and London, has performed at Shakespeare’s Globe with Jason Issacs, and in America with Ted Danson so brings a touch of Hollywood to St. James’s Square, along with the experience of being directed by Tara Fitzgerald and Saffron Burrows.
Together Peter and Lorien will perform Two Shot, a play written by Paul Greenwood, drawing on his career that includes his own eight years with the RSC.
Peter Wight
Fresh from his return to the RSC for the first time since 1997, Peter Wight other roles with that company have included parts in Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet. He has previously enjoyed residencies at the National Theatre, Harold Pinter Theatre, Royal Court, Duke of York’s Theatre, the Lyric Hammersmith, Sheffield Crucible and the New York Armory while in film he is perhaps best known for his work with Mike Leigh, and on television his part in Early Doors and Out of the Blue.
Lorien Haynes
Based between London and Los Angeles, Lorien is an actor and playwright. In the last two years she has acted in a twenty‐three short film series and feature of her Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men, directed by Saffron Burrows, Tara Fitzgerald, Sienna Guillory and Jodhi May. This has won multiple international awards including Best Feature at the Cannes Independent Festival 2022, and Best Actress at the New York International Film Awards 2022.
Paul Greenwood
Paul shot to fame as the young policeman PC Michael “Rosie” Penrose in the sitcom Rosie and is also well known for his portrayal of Inspector Yelland in the drama series Spender. He has appeared in scores of TV shows, including the title role in Captain Zep, as Mr Lucas in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, and as Ian Palmer in The Bill.
Melissa Greenwood
Melissa is an actor and producer whose career spans theatre, TV and film. She played the iconic role of Sophia in the BBC’s Sophia and Constance and was Kitty in Poirot. For ATV she appeared in In Sickness and in Health, and she has also taken numerous roles in Casualty.