Polar Bears, a East End Comedy
Polar Bears has been performed as a rehearsed reading at Soho Theatre, and received productions at Harrogate Theatre and Underbelly, Edinburgh Festival.
An explosive and darkly comic play about the ultimate rejected lover’s ploy: the ritual torture and humiliation of your cheating best mate. Expect razor-sharp dialogue, outrageous humour and cruelty towards flat-mates.
Ed’s girlfriend’s ditched him. There’s dark rumours that his best friend Charlie’s seeing her. He meets Charlie in a pub. Then the drink starts to kick in. Ed ends up spiking Charlie’s drink and dragging him back to his flat, tying him up and ‘interrogating’ him. There’s only one trouble with this classic rejected lover’s ploy; how do you hide your best mate tied up in your living room from your flat mates?
"Look, drugging your mate in the pub is one thing, knocking him out when he’s unconscious in your living room – well, that’s beyond the pale", Ronnie, Polar Bears
Edinburgh Fesival, Underbelly
Dir: Jim Kenworth
Cast: Waleed Akhtar, Leon Edmondson, Mark Ellis, Elliot James, Elise McCave, Sarita Plowman
Harrogate Youth Theatre, Rehearsed Reading
Dir: Steve Ansell
Cast: Dave Robertson, Paul Michael Levins, Dave Bunting, Mark Ellis, Russ Thorne, Sarah Clifton, Madelaine Frost
Soho Theatre, Rehearsed Reading
Dir: Lee Jones
Cast: Michael Adewali, Phil Brown, Spencer Brown, Victoria Duarri, Tom Hayes, Deborah Sheridan-Taylor, Gareth Tunley
ED: "Don’t get me wrong, I tried bringing him round, givin' him a slap, dousing him with water, but it was no use. The landlord comes over and says to me, “ere, son, your mate can’t sleep in the pub, it’s against the law”. I said, he’s not sleeping, he’s meditating, is there a law against meditating in a public house, good Landlord? But he wasn’t having it, so I had to bring him back here, I tied him up for good measure, and that’s when he confessed. (Pause) I slipped him a Mickey Finn in the pub, see. He's right out cold he is". Ed, Polar Bears
