Modern morality and mystery in Minutes
IN February, the Coliseum presents James Fritz’s modern morality thriller, Four Minutes Twelve Seconds.
The cast of the Coliseum’s production features: Jo Mousley as Jack’s mother Di, Lee Toomes as his father David, Alyce Liburd as his (ex) girlfriend Cara and Noah Olaoye as his best friend Nick.
Jo Mousley was last seen at the Coliseum in Relatively Speaking the Manchester Theatre Award winning production of The Father.
Her other recent credits include: Hello and Goodbye at York Theatre Royal and Be My Baby, Hamlet, A Christmas Carol, Europe and Road at Leeds Playhouse.
Lee Toomes completed a national tour playing Brian in The Full Monty earlier this year.
His other credits include Beryl at West Yorkshire Playhouse and New Year New Work at Hull Truck Theatre.
Alyce Liburd’s notable credits include: the 2019 programme at the awardwinning pop-up Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre in York, Out of Joint’s national tour of Rita, Sue and Bob Too and Red Ladder’s The Parting Glass.
Noah Olaoye is a current student at ALRA North, due to graduate in July 2020.
His professional experience to date includes the workshop of Hope Mill Theatre’s The Exonerated.
One character you may have noticed missing from this cast list is Jack himself, and that is because we as an audience never meet him.
Instead we’re forced to rely on his family and friends’ versions of events as we, as well as his parents, attempt to decipher who posted the video.
Four Minutes Twelve Seconds made its world premiere at Hampstead Theatre, London in 2014.
It earned writer, James Fritz, the Critics Circle Most Promising Playwright Award, was nominated for an Olivier Award and was runner up for Soho Theatre’s Verity Bargate Playwriting Award the previous year.
Originally set in Croydon, the play is being specially adapted by James Fritz for the Coliseum’s production and Greater
Manchester’s audiences.
James Fritz is a multiaward-winning writer from South London whose plays for stage and radio also include: Parliament Square (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester and Bush Theatre, London, 2017) and Ross & Rachel (Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 2015; 59E59 Theaters, New York). »»Friday, Februry 21 – Saturday, March. »»Age guidance 16+. »»Tickets £17 - £22. »»Concessions £16 - £20. »»Under 26s £7. »»Audio described Thursday, March 5, 7.30pm. »»British Sign Language interpreted Friday, February 28, 7.30pm. »»Visit: www.coliseum. org.uk/plays/fourminutes-twelveseconds/