Lost Watches Comes To Park Theatre
What happens when grief manifests in talking sculptures and ghostly confrontations?
Lost Watches is a gripping, surreal new play featuring the voice of Jason Isaacs (The White Lotus, Harry Potter), written by emerging playwright Lorenzo Allchurch (Bollocks) and directed by award-winning filmmaker and theatre director Alex Helfrecht (The White King, A Winter’s Journey). This is Allchurch’s debut full-length play, and his writing mixes dark comedy with emotional vulnerability in a uniquely theatrical style.
Lost Watches is a psychological absurdist drama-comedy exploring grief, mental health and memory. Following his mother’s death and his father’s absence, Allen is left with a house he cannot pay off and emotional trauma he doesn’t know how to process. On the weekend before his family home is due to be repossessed, Allen receives a series of unexpected visits that lead him down a dark path of discovery. Over one hallucinatory weekend, Allen is visited by ghosts and converses with a sculpted head of Beat Generation author William Burroughs.
Lost Watches is a described as a ghost story for anyone who’s ever felt stuck in time.The play asks –
- Can the dead help us heal, or do they just linger in the dust?
- What happens when we can’t distinguish memory from invention?
- And how do we let go – of people, places, pain – before it consumes us?
Jason Isaacs will be featuring as the voice of Beat Generation author William Burroughs (or more precisely, a haunted sculpture of him). Allchurch wears dual hats as he also stars as Allen. Leah Apaen plays PC Dread and Gabrielle Moran plays Mother, Father and Jack.
Lost Watches will run in Park Theatre’s intimate Park90 space from 30 July – 23 August. Performance times are 7pm Monday – Saturday evening and 3:15pm for Thursday and Saturday matinees. Tickets from £15.
photographer: Rob Davis.
Address: Park Theatre, Clifton Terrace,
Finsbury Park, N4 3JP
