Theatre & Film Company

The Company

 

Jim Madden

Sarah Mann

 

Jim Madden and Sarah Mann founded Incisor in 1998. Incisor's principal aim is to write and produce exciting and independent new work of strength and clarity, as well as to breathe new life into old classics.

The Company combines the skills of seasoned professionals with the enthusiasm of new talent to bring theatre to a wider audience. They believe in the theatre as a valid and powerful creative medium.

 

Edinburgh Festival 2000

"Channel 4 executives would kill to squeeze something with this much life." The Argus, July 25, 2000

 

Productions

2007 - Abigail's Party - Open Air St Ann's Well Gardens, Hove

2007 - Famous Five @ the Brighton Festival

2006 - Blithe Spirit - Open Air St Ann's Well Gardens, Hove & New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth

2006 - Twelfth Night - Pavilion Theatre, Brighton

2005 - The Importance Of Being Earnest - Open Air St Ann's Well Gardens, Hove

2004 - Twelfth Night - Open Air St Ann's Well Gardens, Hove

2004 - Hotel Palmeira, written by James Madden - Radio pilot - Touchwood Studio's, London

2003 - Brighton Soapbox by James Madden - Monthly at Komedia, Brighton

2002 - Twelfth Night - together with Rachel Lasserson & Contraband Productions,
Open Air Queens Park, London

2001 - I Know What You Want, by James Madden
& Nasty Boy, by James Madden - Komedia @Southside, Edinburgh Fringe Festival & Tour

2000 - I Know What You Want - Komedia @Southside, Edinburgh Fringe Festival

1999 - The Snatching of Bookie Bob (screenplay), written by James Madden
Starring Rod Steiger, premiered at Planet Hollywood

1999 - So Bloody Important, by James Madden - Man In The Moon, Chelsea &"Off Broadway ", New York

1998 - Artist's Model, by James Madden - Bristol Old Vic and Komedia, Brighton

1998 - St. Christopher, written by James Madden (screenplay)

1998 - Bagging up, by James Madden - Canal Café Theatre, London

 

Latest Productions

 

Brighton Festival 2008

Happy Ever After

26 Letters Quiz
Sun 11 May 6.30pm

Forthcoming Productions

COMING SOON!

"Perish the Baubles!"

INCISOR presents

She Stoops To Conquer

by Oliver Goldsmith

16 July - 3 August

Theatre Reviews

EDINBURGH FESTIVAL 2000 - Komedia@Southside
I Know What You Want ****

…THE rapid fire pace of this blistering comedy is established as soon as the lights go up on this story of three youngish people forced by circumstances into sharing a flat. The opening where much of the humour takes place off stage is truly inventive. Finally, on to the stage arrives what must surely be one of the most hysterically irritating characters ever invented….Sarah Mann gives a dazzling performance in the frenzied, jabbering and very challenging role of Penny, who is so obviously besotted with her silent, scary, skinny friend Tony. Penny believes Tony to be a recovering alcoholic, but he is a secret drinker and, when he drinks, Michael D'Cruze is allowed to demonstrate what a fine actor he is, playing Tony as a man who with liquor inside him becomes a charming, chatty, debonair wit with a penchant for quoting Noel Coward and Dylan Thomas. If Tony was not an alcoholic before hooking up with Penny, that woman would be enough to drive anyone to drink, with her incessant babbling and wild mood swings, which she shoots through like greased lightning to great comic effect. When they finally sleep together she is fulfilled and ecstatic, he trapped and devastated… …But for all the outrageous humour, this play has a black heart. This splendid tale is reminiscent of The Caretaker, but with bags of laughs and no pauses to interrupt its relentless pace. Jim Madden has written an extraordinary script that allows his cast to show off all of their theatric