Information on Mark Knight

[Kieran]

Mark Knight had returned to stage tonight in Bill Hollenbach'sSevered Heads.  I starts Monday, March 3rd 2003 (today) and he playing a main character.

If you would like me to mail you the full release sent to me by Mark, please feel free to email me, but please keep and eye out on the main page just to see if Nic posts it, as it will give my inbox some relief.

My mail SHOULD show up, if it doesn't it is: kieran24_7@hotmail.com  8)

[Malefact]

So he's back in the UK? The last I heard he was in America and no-one here was able to track him down. He'd better give Tim Child his number - he might be needed for a certain tv show...  :)

[Illusion]

As I won't be able to update the site for a few weeks, the aforementioned press release is attached below:

For One Night Only  - Mark Knight on stage again
in
Bill Hollenbach's
Severed Heads,
Monday, March 3rd 2003


Whats happening?
A special series of concert staged readings of plays by members of the Philadelphia Dramatists Center will be presented at the New Freedom Theatre on five consecutive Monday evenings through mid-March. The full series of Monday-night presentations includes Annette E. Sanders All Cracked Up, director Zuhairah McGill, February 24;  
Bill Hollenbach's Severed Heads, director James E. Schlatter, March 3;  
Bill Rolleri and Anna Antaramians The Armenian Question, dramaturg and director Ed Shockley, with Lee Pucklis as producer, March 10; and An Evening of One-Acts authored by Jamie J. Brunson, Ann Davidon and T.J. Stokes, March 17.

What play is Mark in?
Severed Heads brings two former campus radical activists together, now in their maturity at opposite ends of the scale of success, in an eerie confrontation complicated by dire deeds of the past and the ghost of a long-dead playwright. Its funny, its frightening, its crazy and yet it makes sense.

What part is Mark playing?
Hes playing George Buechner, a dead playwright. Sometimes mischievous, sometimes chillingly amoral, the ghost of Buechner is given new physical and intellectual life by Mr. Knight, who says of himself ìI think Ive got a lot in common  with Buechner; someone who saw a play I wrote years ago said they thought I wrote like a dead playwright...now I think about it Im not sure how he meant thatÖî

Where & When
New Freedom Theater
1346 N. Broad Street
(Broad and Master Streets)
Philadelphia, PA 19121
Monday, March 3rd 2003, Curtain up: 7:30 PM
Tickets ($10) are available at the door
For reservations call 215-735-1441 x 6
Free parking is available and the theater is handicapped accessible.

[Emii]

Aw. Wish I could have seen that.

[Malefact]

Ah! So he's still in the US.

Thanks for that, Illusion.  ;)

I wonder if he can be tempted back?

[Kieran]

Mark Knight currently has no plans whatsoever to return to the UK, but I can report that Tim Child and Mark Knight have had contact in the last few months......but that is all I can say.  ;)

Thanks for posting that up for me Nic, although if people want the actual attachment and not just a text file they can still ask me for it [not that it looks much different or anything, of course, just an 'official' prog. rather than just text].

He should hopefully report back to me when the run of the show has ended, I have wished him best of luck with it so let us hope it is a success!  8)

[Malefact]

Flash git!  ;)

"Oh, yes, like I was saying to Marcus the other day..."

[Emii]

LOL!  ;D I think you'd get fireballed if you ever called MK 'Marcus'!!!

[Malefact]

He'll have to catch me first!  :D

[Kieran]

Our Lord Fear is keeping himself busy in acting, he has given me information about his second play in less than a month.

Mark Knight
in a new play
Risk and the Sexually Active

By
David Usner

The Brick Playhouse
623 South St., 2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19147
www.TheBrickPlayhouse.org
215-592-1183

When; two weekends:
April
Fri 11th, 8pm
Sat & Sun 12th 13th, 7pm

Fri 18th, 8pm
Sat & Sun 19th 20th, 7pm

[Pooka]

"Risk and the Sexually Active"?

I'm worried about that...  :-X

[Malefact]

You both should be!  ;D

(In-joke alert!)

[GrimaldineGrimwold]

Do you know if he's intending to continue and do more plays there in the foreseeable future? I'm probably in Pennsylvania for a month from mid-June, so if he lets you know of anything from then, I'd be grateful if you'd mention it to me.

[Trial_by_Spikes]

Is this a reference to the excellent board game of "Risk"? Which was always won by the player who captured and held Australasia.

[Kieran]

Have info on Marks latest play in the USA for people.  Here is the advert I was given:

In Bill Rolleri and Anna Antaramian's play

'The Armenian Question'



Friday, May 30, 2003,  7.30pm (one night only)


Mark is  playing General Kazim Yucelen,  the Turkish Deputy Prime Minister.
The Armenian Question unfolds in the context of an arena in which survivors
of the 20th Century¹s first genocide, the killings of millions of Armenians,
challenge the Muslim-dominated Turkish government to accept moral
responsibility for these mass atrocities. General Yucelen is a huge role and
Mark's charts the complexity of this dangerous character with immense skill
and talent.


Sounds v interesting, his parts get more interesting every time :-)