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PROMOTER INFORMATION

JACK'S ASHES - WATSON - APPRAISAL - WAITING FOR HAMLET

JACK'S ASHES

A highly adaptable solo performance, delivered as a team talk to the audience

Full Tour Pack HERE

Teaser trailer HERE

Interview with 'Jack' HERE

Full copy, reviews & info HERE

WATSON: The Final Problem

A dynamic Sherlock-ian adventure as told by Dr Watson

Tour Pack HERE

Trailer HERE

What's Next Teaser HERE

Full length audio version HERE

Full copy, reviews & info HERE

APPRAISAL

An annual work review gone wrong - a two handed corporate nightmare comedy.

Page HERE

WAITING FOR HAMLET

A two handed Shakespearean comedy

Tour Pack HERE

TOURING:

Jack's Ashes, Watson, Appraisal and Waiting for Hamlet are currently available.

BASIC SPECIFICS

COMPANY:

Watson: 1 performers + 1 tech

Waiting for Hamlet: 2 performers

Jack's Ashes: 1 performer +1 tech

Appraisal: 2 performers.

RUNNING TIMES:

Watson: 95 mins with interval (or 60 mins 'festival' version) + post show workshop or Q&A

Waiting for Hamlet: 60 mins + post show workshop or Q&A

Apprasial: 60mins

Jack's Ashes: 100 mins with interval (or 70 mins 'festival' version), + 'fire circle' talkback led by a professional counsellor and anxiety specialist.

TECHNICAL:

All shows have grown out of the fringe environment so are not difficult to stage. A minimum performance space of 4M x 3M, we carry our own basic lighting and a sound system if required. A facility to project is ideal but we travel our own equipment as necessary.

Link to full technical requirements HERE

AWARDS:

Brits Off Broadway 2024 and 2025 - SELL-OUT six week seasons

Best Actor, Best Actress (Appraisal) Dark Chat Edinburgh Festival Awards 24

Best Performance, Dark Chat Edinburgh Festival Awards 23

Best Theatre Award (Jack's Ashes), Adelaide Fringe 23

#1 Best of the Best (Watson), CityMag, Adelaide 23

EdFringe: Sell -Out shows: 17, 18, 19 & 21, 22, 23, Lustrum Award 18 & 19, Scotsman 'Fringe Favourite' 21,

Fringe Encore SoHo Playhouse New York, 18

Adelaide Fringe 18, 19, 20: Sold-Out, Sunday Mail Award, Best Solo Show

Amnesty International Certificate of Achievement, 18

INVICTUS GAMES tour of Australia Sept-Nov 18

Brighton Fringe 19, 20 Best New Play (Nominated)

REVIEWS:

Link to reviews page HERE

WORKSHOPS:

Link to Education page HERE

BIOG:

Founded by Tim Marriott, SMOKESCREEN PRODUCTIONS aims to tell stories in vibrant style, supporting the work of charities with dynamic theatrical performance.

Smokescreen was awarded grants via the Chancellor's LIBOR fund to create 'Shell Shock', an adaptation of Neil Blower Watkin's biographical novel. Supporting charities such as Help For Heroes, Combat Stress, and The Armed Forces Network, the play toured to festivals, theatres and colleges in the UK, New York, Australia and New Zealand as well as 'behind the wire' in the UK, Australia and New Zealand.

'Mengele', inspired by the Holocaust themed novel 'Right to Live' by Philip Wharam, sold out at both Edinburgh and Adelaide Fringe where 'Shell Shock' won a Best Solo Show award. 'Shell Shock' went on to complete a long tour of Australia from Brisbane to Melbourne to Sydney for the Invictus Games. 'Mengele' was again a Sell-Out Show at Edinburgh in 2019 and won the Lustrum Award. Both 'Shell Shock' and 'Mengele' were at Adelaide Fringe in 2020, where touring was halted.

Following the creation of new works, Sherlock-ian solo 'Watson: The Final Problem’, corporate comedy 'Appraisal' and cricket themed 'Jack's Ashes', Tim Marriott won two Best Theatre Awards at Adelaide, as well a Best Performance Award at Edinburgh Festival 22. 'Appraisal' won both Best Actor for Tim and Best Actress for Angela Bull in '23.

'Watson', co-written and directed by Bert Coules, sold out shows at EdFringe '21, '22 & '23. ‘Appraisal’ and ‘Watson’ were both selected for the 2024 Brits Off Broadway season in New York, selling out shows over a six week season. 'Jack's Ashes' toured to Australia in '22 and '23, and was performed at major cricket grounds, schools and theatres across the country.

A new transatlantic comedy, 'A Special Relationship', written by Tim Marriott and Jeff Stolzer, premiered at the Tabard Theatre in London in March '25 and will be in New York May-June '25 at 59E59 Theaters.

Smokescreen Productions is affiliated to the film production company Smokescreen Visuals. 'Shell Shock' is available as a vlog-style film created for the Armed Forces Network. 'Revelation', a feature-length drama, based on a novel by Tim Marriott, is currently in development. The book will be published later this year. The opening chapter is available here.

CONTACT:

M: 07773 777521

E: TM@smokescreenprodscom

Web: www.smokescreenprods.com

FB: @smokescreenEB

Tw: @guv47

You Tube Channel: Tim Marriott Smokescreen

RECENT FESTIVALS & SEASONS:

Jan 20, Mengele in Austria

Jan 20 Mengele and ShSk UK touring to Bridge House Theatre London, Chelmsford, Chatham

Feb 20 - Adelaide Festival Fringe, Australia.

March 20 - Tasmania, Australia (cancelled)

Nov 19 to April 20 - UK touring including Army Mental Health Roadshow

May 20 - Florida, USA (postponed)

Brighton Fringe 20 (postponed)

June 20 - Wels, Austria (postponed)

June-July 20 - Bristol, Bath, Petworth (cancelled)

Aug 20 - Edinburgh Fringe (cancelled)

October - TBC rescheduled Brighton Fringe

Jan 21 - Perth, WA (cancelled).

Feb -March 21 - Adelaide Fringe (postponed to '22)

March/April 21 - further Australia touring (cancelled)

May 21 - Florida (cancelled)

June 21 - Brighton Fringe

July 21 - Ludlow Fringe

July 21 - Hastings Fringe

July 21 - Bristol Shakespeare Festival

July 21 - Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea Arts Festival

Aug 21 - Goat, Manchester Shakespeare Festival

Aug 21 - Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Sept 21 - Petworth Fringe

Oct 21 - Hastings Festival

2022
24/25 Feb 22 - WATSON & SHELL SHOCK - Playhouse2, Oldham

26 Feb - WATSON - Waterside Arts Sale - SOLD OUT

PROMOTER INFORMATION

26 Feb - WATSON - Waterside Arts Sale - SOLD OUT

4/5 March - WATSON - Lichfield Garrick - SOLD OUT

31 March-9 April - WATSON - Chelsea Theatre, London 24 April - WATSON - Trinity Arts, Tunbridge Wells

10-15 May - WATSON - Assembly Festival, Coventry

8 June - WAITING FOR HAMLET - Sudbury

11 June - SHELL SHOCK - Chatham

22 June - SHELL SHOCK - Ludlow

30 June - WATSON - Swan, Worcester

6 July - WATSON - Old Woollen, Pudsey

3-28 Aug - WATSON - Edinburgh Festival Fringe

6-26 Aug - WAITING FOR HAMLET - Edinburgh Festival Fringe

9-10 Sept - WATSON - Chatham

11 Sept - WATSON - Halifax

17 Sept - WATSON - Stafford

29 Sept - SHELL SHOCK - Petworth

2 Oct - London Marathon for Combat Stress

10-11 Oct - KNOCK ON THE DOOR - work in progress reading - VSC, London

15 Oct - WATSON - Barton Under Needwood

18 Oct - WATSON - Alnwick

21-22 Oct - WATSON - Cambridge

3 Nov - WATSON - Wigan

12 Nov - WATSON - Teignmouth

24 Nov - JACK'S ASHES - Petworth

25 Nov - WATSON - West Bromwich

28-30 Nov - WATSON - Ealing, London

6 Dec - depart for AUSTRALIA tour

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2023

Jan/Feb/March - JACK'S ASHES - ACA/Cricket Australia Tour (inc. Bunbury, SCG, MCG, WACA, Gabba, ADL Oval)

24 Jan - WATSON - Bunbury, WA - SOLD OUT

Feb/March - WATSON - Adelaide Fringe Festival - SOLD OUT

6 April - WATSON - Theatre Clwyd - SOLD OUT

13 April - JACK'S ASHES - Ealing, Questors

20 April - JACK'S ASHES - Sudbury, Quay Theatre

21 April - WATSON - Bedford, Quarry

4 May - WATSON - Winchester, Theatre Royal

12 May - JACK'S ASHES - Tunbridge Wells, Trinity

16 May - WATSON - Bury St Edmunds, Theatre Royal

17 May - WATSON - Hornchurch, Queens

19 May - WATSON - Cranleigh Arts Centre

3 June - WATSON - Banbury, Mill Arts

7-14 July - WATSON - Cunard QM2, Transatlantic

22 July - WATSON - Sheffield, Playhouse

27 July - SHELL SHOCK - Rotherham, Civic

4-28 August - WATSON & APPRAISAL - Assembly Festival, Edinburgh Fringe

28 Sept - APPRAISAL - Petworth Fringe

29 Sept - WATSON - Barnes, London, OSO

6 Oct - JACK'S ASHES - Lichfield, Garrick

19, 20, 21 Oct - JACK'S ASHES - Live & Local, Rural Touring

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2024

Jan 15-22 - JACK'S ASHES - Cunard, Queen Elizabeth, Australia

Jan 25 - APPRAISAL - Bunbury Fringe, Western Australia

Jan 27-Feb 15 - JACK'S ASHES - Sydney & NSW touring

Feb 16-18 - JACK'S ASHES & WATSON - Coonawarra Fringe

Feb 19-March 18 - WATSON & APPRAISAL - Adelaide Fringe

March 16-April 13 - APPRAISAL - London, The Tabard Theatre

April 18-20 - JACK'S ASHES - Live & Local, Rural Touring

April 25 - JACK'S ASHES - Sale, Waterside Arts

April 26 - JACK'S ASHES - Bowness-on-Windermere (postponed)

May 1 - JACK'S ASHES - Winchester Theatre Royal

May 2 - APPRAISAL - Bedford, Quarry Theatre

May 3 - APPRAISAL - Bowness-on-Windermere, Old Library Theatre

May 16 - JACK'S ASHES - Bedford, Quarry Theatre

May 19-July 1 - WATSON & APPRAISAL - New York, 59E59 Theatres - Brits Off Broadway

July 26-Aug 4 - WATSON & APPRAISAL - Cunard, QM2 - Transatlantic

14 Aug - JACK'S ASHES - Bakewell

16 Aug - WATSON - Bakewell

4 Sept - WATSON - Barnstaple

5 Sept - JACK'S ASHES - Barnstaple

11-15 Sept - APPRAISAL - OSO Arts, Barnes, London

18 Sept - WATSON - London, RAF Club

19 Sept - JACK'S ASHES - Petworth Fringe

21 Sept - WATSON - Bowness-on-Windermere, Old Library Theatre

28-29 Sept - WATSON - Dumfries, Swallow Theatre

2-19 Oct - JACK'S ASHES - London, The Tabard Theatre

​15 Nov - WATSON - Mission, Doncaster

16 Nov - WATSON - Fairfield, Bromsgrove

17 Nov - WATSON - Ropsley

31 March-9 April - WATSON - Chelsea Theatre, London
24 April - WATSON - Trinity Arts, Tunbridge Wells

15 Nov - WATSON - Mission, Doncaster