George Dillon

Three stories of imagination run wild!

26 years ago, in the hopeful summer after the fall of the Berlin Wall and before Saddam burned the oil wells of Kuwait, audiences and critics in Brighton and Edinburgh rushed to witness a young Brighton actor’s stunning solo debut. Last seen in Brighton in 1997 that show, a triple bill of world premières with an unashamed title, is returning to The Old Market for one night only!

Stunning the Punters (& Other Stories) is one man, George Dillon, on a bare stage giving a bravura high-energy performance of three tales of imagination run wild: Master of Café Society by Steven Berkoff, the title story by Glaswegian writer Robert Sproat and Dillon’s own adaptation of The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Since 1990, Brighton actor George Dillon has given nearly one thousand solo performances in several highly acclaimed shows, including Berkoff’s Graft – Tales of an Actor (for which he won a Herald ‘Angel’ award in 2000) The Gospel of Matthew and Dillon’s own play The Man Who Was Hamlet.

Reviews:

“Stunning the Punters is a compelling piece of theatre: make haste to catch it!” The Times
“The best example of someone to watch how to perform… I was most proud of my written work when I saw him.” Steven Berkoff