Two by Jim Cartwright, The Dukes, Lancaster
Press Release (with rehearsal photos) : Production photos
Two by Jim Cartwright
Friday 5th — Saturday 27th October 2001
With details of the cast
The Dukes Autumn season opens with Two by Jim Cartwright.
It is set in a pub. Writers love pubs; every soap has one, most sitcoms, films and even radio shows. They are the perfect setting for a writer who can send all manner of crazy folk, regulars, passers by, rich and poor, young and old in for a drink.
Jim Cartwright is no exception, but never one for an easy life his northern pub is frequented by strange and wonderful characters all of them played by two actors. One of those actors is Graham Fellows. Graham is best know for his creation John Shuttleworth who was the comedy hit of the Edinburgh Fringe in 1992 where he was nominated for the Perrier Award and won the Edinburgh Critics Award.
The success of the show also led to a regular guest spot on Channel 4’s Saturday Zoo. Graham was already well known as an actor and the creator of the hit single Jilted John.He has starred in three series of The Shuttleworths on BBC Radio 4 and the show has been nominated for a Sony Award and the Writers Guild Award. Other broadcasts include Shuttleworth’s Showtime (Radio 1), John Shuttleworth and Friends (Radio 1) and John Shuttleworth’s Open House.
His radio series Radio Shuttleworth was first broadcast on Radio 4 in November 1998 and a second series followed two years later. As an actor, Graham has featured in Coronation Street, Comics (Ch4), Coogans Run (BBC2) and Time Gentleman Please (SKY). He also took a cameo role in the films Different for Girls and Morons from Outer Space and appeared in a production of Twelfth Night at the Belgrade in Coventry. He recently provided all the voices for Aardman’s Bafta Award winning short film, Stage Fright. As John Shuttleworth he starred in 500 Bus Stops and Euro Pigeon for BBC television.
At the 1999 Edinburgh Festival, Graham introduced his new character Brian Appleton in his sell out, hit show. A sell-out run at the Riverside Studios followed and Brian Appleton went on to appear on VH1 for MTV and Lenny Beige’ Variety Pack (BBC). His new series for BBC Radio 4, based on the show Brian Appleton’s History of Rock’n’Roll, will be broadcast from September 2001.
In 2000 Graham completed a major UK tour - 2000 & John which featured John Shuttleworth and Brian Appleton. He won the Manchester Evening News Comedy Award 2000 for his performance of this show at the Manchester Opera House. Earlier this year he completed a 40 dates tour with his new show John Shuttleworth has One Foot in the Gravy when he toured at the Dukes to a sold out theatre and an ecstatic audience.
He has just finished touring as Brian Appleton with the critically acclaimed indie band Belle & Sebastian . He is currently at the Edinburgh festival in a new show as Brian Appleton: Brian Appleton in Let’s Look at Sound. Dukes Artistic Director, Ian Hastings is very much looking forward to the Autumn season and has worked with Graham before at the Royal Exchange where Graham played Geoffrey in A Taste of Honey.
Two will be truly memorable night at the theatre.
