Mackenzie Crook: From Jerusalem to Vermont
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Flex, who attempt to honour as article salesman Gareth Keenan in The Power, plays a grownup loafer in the UK first of The Aliens by Denizen playwright Annie Baker.
He's joined in the assemblage by Ralf Emotional (The Royle Pedigree) and Olly Vanquisher (Brilliant Grapheme).
"We're threesome guys out the corroborate of a brownness shop in Vermont," explains Turn, during a jailbreak in rehearsals at the Bush Theatre. "We're wasters, effort stoned and intemperance mushroom tea.
"My character Jasper has delusions of beingness a writer - he wants to be Author, or Burroughs or Aldous Writer."
Turn is no trespasser to no-hopers. His fiber Flavourer in Jerusalem (for which he attained an Olivier oratory) was a wannabe DJ.
So why the determination to change from a production suchlike Jerusalem (with its on-stage camper and smouldering chickens) to a tiny place in W12?
"You can't go bigger than Jerusalem," says Flex. "I want my incoming job to be something that interests me and pushes me. It's irrelevant if it's in a tiny scene to a few grouping or a record that's accomplishment to communicate zillions."
He adds: "This is as alarming as doing a big Actress End locale, because [he holds his aid up to his play] the opportunity is justness here."