Tristan Gemmill and Michael Greco interview

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.

Transcript

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.