Tagora 
Tagora will be staging N.F. Simpson’s absurdist comedy One way pendulum in June 2025.
Casting readings will be held on 26 November and 3 December.
Our director, Simon Palmer, writes:
| As already foreshadowed in Tagora’s Newsletter and on this website, casting readings for our production of N.F. Simpson’s One-way Pendulum will take place on succeeding Tuesdays 26 November and 3 December at 18:30, in the rehearsal room at the Palais de l’Europe. The readings (or “auditions” if you prefer) will consist of reading through sections of the play with different distributions of roles. There is no question of needing to prepare audition pieces or anything like that. If you’re interested – and we do hope you are – please mail pendulum@tagora.eu, preferably by 15 November, indicating which of the dates you would prefer. If you can’t make either, write anyway. Scripts will be provided. The play will be performed at the Théâtre du Cube noir from 12 to 18 June 2025. The cast should be finalised by the end of December. Pendulum is going to be a lot of fun to put together but it will also be a serious, complex business, and those cast will be invited to accept that attending rehearsals is a matter of discipline; particularly during the last eight weeks before performance only sickness, official business or unforeseen emergencies may derogate from that obligation! Looking forward to seeing you in a few weeks’ time,  Simon |
One-way Pendulum, described on the title page as “A farce in a new dimension”, was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Brighton on 14 December 1959, before playing at London’s Royal Court Theatre from 22 December, later transferring to the Criterion Theatre where it ran until 11 June 1960. The play was adapted for the cinema in 1965. [Source: Wikipedia.]
Photo: N.F. Simpson, pictured by the Daily Telegraph in one of his last interviews before his death in 2011.
