We had a chat with Adam Slynn and Mel Oskar who are actors, based in London and both graduated from LAMDA - The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, in 2008. We talked about their show 52 pick up, which has a unique technical format, the life of acting and how it's like to work a lot together while being a couple.
Adam Slynn has worked for the Young Shakespeare Company, been in productions at the Trafalgar Studios, Theatre 503, the King´s Head and has appeared on BBC´s Doctors.
Mel Oskar (Melkorka Oskarsdottir) has worked as an actress both in her home country Iceland and in the UK. She has travelled extensively, – has gone back-packing around Europe and South East Asia and worked in a school for street children in Guatemala.
You can listen to the interview via the player below, you'll be jumping right into an interesting discussion on the landscape of acting before and after the financial crisis the rest of the interview.
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About the show 52 pick up
The script is by TJ Dawe and Rita Bozi. The show in London is performed by Adam Slynn and Mel Oskar. It is an astutely intimate roller coaster, 52 Pick Up works like memory – not linear, but swerving from belly-busting comedy, to hysterically universal truths to quiet heartbreak in the literal drop of a card.
TJ Dawe is a Canadian actor, playwright and director. He has written a number of plays, including The Slipknot, Labrador and The Power of Ignorance, which he co-wrote. He has worked quite a bit with solo performances, both as an actor and a writer.
Rita Bozi is a Hungarian-Canadian writer and playwright. She has also worked as a dancer and actress. Earlier this year she went to Iceland to finish her first novel.
52 Pick Up was first performed at the Montreal Fringe Festival in 2000 where it won the Chapter’s Best Text Award. Since then it has been performed and well received in Australia, New Zealand, at the Edinburgh Fringe and all over the United States. It is now time to bring this award-winning play to London.
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