Storm Mine is a stage play set within the continuity established by the Kaldor City series. It was adapted by Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore from Daniel O'Mahony's audio story of the same title.
Publisher's summary[]
In the sequel to Robots of Death, Blayes and Iago are trapped on a semi-deserted Storm Mine. Kaldor City is quarantined. And no-one can give an answer to the changes that are being wrought on all the crew... human and robot.
Cast[]
- Elska Blayes - Kate Millest
- V23 - Morag Peacock
- Chief Mover - Sean Mason
- Kaston Iago - Marlon Solomon
- Commander - Ben Patterson
Crew[]
- Producer - Gareth Kavanagh
- Director - Sam Al-Hamandi
- Script Editor - Ian Winterton
- Voc Masks supplied by Terry Cooper
Notes[]
- This production was part of the Greater Manchester Fringe Festival 2012 performed between 28 July to 30 July at the Lass O'Gowrie pub.
- The script was adpated by Alan Stevens from Daniel O'Mahony's Kaldor City audio story Storm Mine [+]Daniel O'Mahony, Kaldor City (Magic Bullet Productions, 2004).. It dispenses with the original story's opening prologue.[1]
- Unlike Robots of Death [+]Chris Boucher, Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore, adapted from The Robots of Death (Chris Boucher), Kaldor City stage plays (Lass O'Gowrie Productions, 2012)., the role of the robot, V23, was performed without a mask, with make-up applied to the actress' face in order to give the suggestion of a robot aspect.
- A special premiere presentation of the script, in the form of a read-through by the cast seated in front of a live audience, along with Robots of Death, was performed at the Fab Café on Portland Street in advance of the stage play's debut.[2] For this performance only, Paul Darrow and Tracy Russell reprised their roles as Kaston Iago and Elska Blayes.[3]
- Promotional artwork was designed by Adrian Salmon.[4]
Reception[]
- The blog "Speaker to Animals" described the play "as a better presentation of O'Mahony's script than the audio", citing Kate Millest's Blayes to be a "much more credible assassin than Tracey Russell's" and Morag Peacock's portrayal of robot V23 as "an impressively restrained performance".[1]
- A review on "The Fiction Stroker" blog said, "There is no doubt that Storm Mine is a complex piece that has a plot across many levels. But the sheer scale and ambition of the plot has got to be admired, and the efforts that Director Sam Al-Hamdani and his cast have gone to in order to bring this to the stage. Yet, against the odds, it works."[5]
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Footnotes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Manchester Fringe 2012: Storm Mine. Speaker to Animals (31 July 2012).
- ↑ Manchester Fringe 2012: Robots of Death & Storm Mine Premiere. Speaker to Animals (1 July 2012).
- ↑ Gareth Kavanagh. "That One with the Killer Robots". Kaldor City. Magic Bullet Productions.
- ↑ Adrian Salmon. Robots of Death / Storm Mine. Adrian Salmon Art.
- ↑ Storm Mine: The Stage Play – LIVE!. The Fiction Stroker (30 July 2012).
