Unreachable Tickets
14+ Contains strong language.
Performance dates
1 July to 6 August 2016. Monday to Saturday 7.30pm, Thursday and Saturday 2.30pm
Run time 2 hours and 20 minutes
Includes interval
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A film director on an obsessive quest to capture the perfect light.
Writer and director Anthony Neilson returns to the Royal Court with a new comedy, created entirely in the rehearsal room.
The cast for Anthony Neilson’s new play Unreachable will include Amanda Drew, Tamara Lawrance, Jonjo O’Neill, Richard Pyros and Matt Smith.
Renowned for his pioneering, ground-breaking and imaginative new work, Anthony Nielson’s credits at the Royal Court include The Get Out, Narrative, Get Santa!, Relocated, The Wonderful World of Dissocia (winner Best Production in both the TMA and Critic’s Awards for Theatre in Scotland), Heredity, The Lying Kind and The Censor, which won the Writers Guild and Time Out Award. His other work includes Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness (Drum Theatre Plymouth), Stitching (The Traverse, The Bush – Time Out Off West End Award) and Normal (Edinburgh Festival). His films include The Debt Collector and Deeper Still.
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Images from rehearsal process.
Recent Reviews
Fantastic production, 6 excellent performances which were warm, humorous and touching. Throughly recommend it.
Brilliant play, brilliant cast without exception! I loved it, especially the corpsing!,
Very funny enjoyed very much
I Have never laughed so much in my life! The cast were phenomenal. It was refreshing to see a play created in rehearsal process and how fresh it seemed. The actors had fun and were making each other laugh which just made us laugh even more! I cannot recommend the play enough. It really made me feel so much lighter afterwards from laughing so much.
Unreachable was a most enjoyable and amusing play. The actors were excellent, particularly Jon Jo O'Neil. I suspect that he was improvising quite a lot, as the rest of the cast were finding it difficult not to laugh at times.
Very funny. Entertaining, Excellent cast. Would recommend it.
Quite the best play I have seen for a long time. Terrific acting- great theme and hysterically funny. The final backdrop to the end of the play was fabulous. Great evening
The subject matter was trivial, the performances good, but the characters were mostly unbelievable. A disappointment in every way.
Some of this show is really funny, but the fact that the actors on stage also seemed to find it really funny was distracting. I assumed that all the corpsing must be a complex dramatic device, but by the end decided that the cast found themselves extremely humorous. This broke my concentration, and I know that other members of the audience noticed it too. It felt unprofessional, and broke my engagement with the script and the plot.
loved it! especially since audimce, cast & crew seemed to have a good laugh together (4th wall, what 4th wall?!)
A truly different experience of the theatre it felt very honest and from the heart, as the audience I felt extremely engaged with the performance laughing at things we really shouldn't be laughing about but you couldn't help it .. It finished leaving you wanting more. Well done to all involved .....
Amazing show with the powerful message hidden until the very end. Unbelievable acting. Highly recommend to everyone!
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News / Casting
Matt Smith, Amanda Drew and more announced for Unreachable cast
Amanda Drew, Tamara Lawrance, Jonjo O'Neill, Richard Pyros and Matt Smith have been announced as the cast in Unreachable at the Royal Court by Anthony Neilson.
Rehearsals start on 16 May the production runs from 2 July 2016 to 6 August 2016 in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs. Writer and director Anthony Neilson returns to the Royal Court with a new play that will be created in the rehearsal room.
13 May, 2016 | By James Astles
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