Helena Blackman to star in Impotent at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre

Impotent, a new play by Matt Reed, directed by Graham Hubbard (Priscilla, Sweeney Todd, Mack and Mabel, Sound of Music-All West End), will premiere at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre in Kentish Town early next year. The play will from from 8th January until 26th January 2013. The production stars Helena Blackman, runner up of BBCs 'How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria' as Dr Zoe Lane.

Impotent is a pitch-black comedy drama set in the murky world of a Market Harborough Genito-Urinary Medicine Department. Five men at different stages of their life and different stages of treatment for impotence are seen individually undergoing treatment with Dr Zoë Lane, a woman who has to penetrate, interpret and reprogramme the misfiring, and frequently overwired brains of her patients. Her patients are a mixture of men for whom sex is any or all of a reward, a curse, a threat, a justification and punishment.

After their individual consultations, the five patients are all then bought together in a group meditation session, which aims to teach them to live in the moment and ignore the erection defeating voices in their head. But when one patient decides to vent the anger his impotence has bred in him, the group descends into anarchy. In this maelstrom, one of the patients remains resolute, while two come to view themselves in a better light and two are further away from a solution than ever before, as all the patients come to terms with lives that have been mainly exercises in searching for validation, reassurance, but most of all… a hard-on.

The full cast includes Helena Blackman, Don Cotter, Rebecca Crookshank, Nik Drake, Tom Durant-Pritchard, Paul Harnett, Randall Lyon, Jessie May and Neil Stewart.

Please visit www.impotenttheplay.co.uk for more information and to book tickets!

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