Frdiays When It Rains by award-winning playwright Nick Warburton

Delicious tension (Brighton Argus)
A very impressive thrilling-chilling piece of theatre (Brighton Fringe Review)

Bill Risebero as Dove and Vicki Carpenter as Connie in Fridays When It Rains by Nick Warburton. A masterly exploration of unrequited love, class prejudice, erotic obsession and the supernatural. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and subsequently adapted for the stage, the play was warmly acclaimed at the 2010 Brighton Festival. It opens in London for the first time at Pentameters Theatre in Hampstead from Tuesday 25 June to Sunday 7 July. Box Office: 0207 435-3648. Performances at 8 p.m (5 p.m. Sunday matinees)

Nick Warburton has written over 30 plays for BBC Radios 3, 4, 5, 7 and BBC World Service. He was joint winner of the BBC/Radio Times Drama award for Conversations From the Engine Room and winner of the Tinniswood Award for best radio play of 2005, Beast. He is a regular writer for BBC TV's medical series, Holby City and Doctors and has also written for Eastenders and Born & Bred. His numerous stage plays include a recent double-bill at Alan Ayckbourn's Stephen Joseph Theatre. He is author of seven novels for children and young adults.

Bill Risebero (Dove) has appeared in numerous productions with the Hampstead Players, notably as Vladimir in Waiting For Godot, Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Revd John Hale in The Crucible, Fagin in Oliver, Feste in Twelfth Night, Adzak in The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Revd Eli Jenkins in Under Milk Wood, Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, Banquo in Macbeth, Enobarbus in Antony and Cleopatra, Duke Vincentio in Measure for Measure, Revd Jeremiah Brown in Inherit the Wind and Judas in Events in an Upper Room.

Vicki Carpenter (Connie) studied at Mountview Theatre School in London. She adapted Fridays When It Rains for the stage and directs the London and Brighton productions. She played both Lulu and Rirette in Michael Almaz’s long-running play Intimacy at the Café Theatre in Covent Garden. She wrote and performed Bright Star, a one-woman show exploring the relationship of John Keats and Fanny Brawne. Her adaptation of John Symond’s play The Poison Maker, which she directed and in which she played Florence, was performed at the Old Red Lion Theatre. She has performed in numerous plays including School for Scandal (Mrs Candour), Bleak House (Madame Hortense), Men Without Shadows (Lucy), Fallen Angels (Jane), Rikki Beadle-Blair's Totally Practically Naked (Maddy), Graham Farrow's Talk About The Passion (Evelyn Ayles).  Vicki Carpenter teaches voice and presentation and is the founder and principal lecturer at London Voice Coaching.