TV stars Tristan Gemmill and Michael Greco tell you why you should come see them in Twelve Angry Men in Blackpool April 29-May 4.
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00:00 If you don't know it or don't know very much about it, it's a brilliant two hours.
00:19 It's sort of like, you know how at the moment those sort of murder mysteries and sort of
00:26 real life murder podcasts and stuff, they're really in at the moment. Agatha Christie's
00:30 really in at the moment. It is sort of that, it is sort of like a whodunit. And you go
00:36 one way and then you go the other and then you go back the other way. It's, you know,
00:42 all I can say is that we're really proud of it. It's a great play and we've had brilliant
00:46 reactions all around the country and Ireland. We were in Dublin last week and we played
00:52 to 2000 people on Saturday night. It was absolutely bonkers. So, yeah, it's a really good play
01:00 that still holds up, you know, several decades after it was written. And there's something
01:07 for everybody in it. It's a widely diverse group of people on the stage. And the story
01:14 is riveting and exciting and contains more than one twist. So there's, yeah, there's
01:22 a lot going for it, I think.
01:25 Probably because not only is this play brilliantly written, it's stood the test of time with
01:30 what we're going through today with prejudices and racism and everything that we see. And
01:37 it's a very telling story. And everyone loves a courtroom drama. Everyone loves to know
01:42 who done it kind of thing. It's kind of similar to that. And it's just brilliantly acted and
01:49 it's got some great people in it who people will recognise from the TV and it will keep
01:54 you on the edge of your seats, you know, and I'm in it for a start. No, I think if they
02:02 used to go and see musicals and cabaret acts and big sort of stars performing in their
02:09 theatres, mainly as like entertainment, then come and see a different form of entertainment,
02:15 come and sit down and be entertained in a way that will make your mind think. But also
02:20 visually, it looks fantastic as well. You do, you read a lot of people have said they
02:25 really do feel like they're in a 1957 courtroom drama because it's so well set and written
02:33 and the accents are obviously all from New York. And people can just have a bit of two
02:38 hours of escapism.