What Broke David Lynch?

21:00 hours Aug 5-13,15-20,22-27

Greenside @Nicolson Square, Fern Studio

'A simply cracking cast' ***** (Stage)

(For the companies last play 2016’s Jennifer’s Robot Arm)

It’s 1980, David Lynch is at a crossroads and can’t get his plans to make his second feature, Ronnie Rocket, off the ground. So he picks a script written by someone else off a pile, The Elephant Man, it sounds like a Lynch film. This adventure would send him to foggy London and offer up to him worldwide stardom.

Award-winning Fringe firebrand Mr Twonkey aka Paul Vickers plays David Lynch in this exciting yarn about making 1980 cinema classic. Miranda Shrapnell also stars as a fizzy femme fatale. The double act of Robert Atler and Steven Vickers complete the cast playing multiple roles like four headed Peter Sellars.

Paul explains: “ I was feeling like a lo fidelity Orson Welles when I got the bug to do the show it was after watching The Elephant Man again and reading the book of David’s life Room to Dream. The early parts of a career are always the most interesting part, its when the events of someone's life tests them to point they create some kind of legend. David’s story is as rich and strange as his films. Our play zooms in on a small part of David’s development with humour and passion it’s more than a sophisticated piece of fan art it has its own point to make. Sometimes executing an idea can come close to executing the person behind it”

Photos: Toby Long@PhotoExpress Edinburgh.