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Tough Time, Nice Time

“A really challenging but supremely rewarding show about the failure of storytelling.”

Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

PIC PHIL TRAGEN

A secret, a spa in Bangkok and two naked Germans…

Martin, an ex-rent boy drug-dealing lawyer, offers to share his tales of misfortune with Stefan, a jaded hack writer on a junket. Together, they engage in an intricate exchange of outrageous stories, weaving through movies, sex, celebrity and genocide. With its razor sharp dialogue and lightning pace, Tough Time, Nice Time is challenging, vividly imaginative and utterly absorbing.

“A really challenging but supremely rewarding show about the failure of storytelling”, The Guardian.

“Scabrously funny and yet, at bottom, deadly serious and painfully bleak”, The Times

 

Cast & Crew

Written and Performed by David Woods & Jon Haynes
Design Jon Haynes, Mischa Twitchin & David Woods
Lighting Design Mischa Twitchin
Production Manager Ian Brown
Production Researcher Elena Timplalexi
Producer Sarah Greentree & Jo Crowley
Photographer Phil Tragen

Partners & Funders

BarbicanArts Council EnglandThe Point

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