Life with Oscar

Written by Nicholas Cohen

Developed with and Directed for UK/ USA International Tour by James Grieve.

Life with Oscar is a darkly comic confessional rollercoaster ride through Hollywood.

Nick flies to Sunset Boulevard, staying with an Oscar winner promising to get Nick nominated…If he follows instructions…

Actor/Filmmaker Nick Cohen relives his desperate Hollywood years – a tragicomic true-life ‘Sunset Boulevard’, living as a permanent guest on Sunset with a double Oscar-winner; a man who worked regularly with Orson Welles, promising to get Nick’s film nominated. Life with Oscar upends La La Land in a confessional rollercoaster ride through its dark, twisted underbelly.

A frenetically physical retelling, featuring 29 different characters, from the man who modelled the Oscar trophy itself to the psychopathic producer’s daughter destined to be Nick’s ‘mystic bride,’ we go from Edgware rd. to Hollywood and back again. Accompanied by fragments of films past and present, scored with layered compositions by Jon Ouin and the cinematic direction of James Grieve supported by the dynamic choreography of Charlotte Fox, this show is a hilarious and moving confession.

A Faustian tale of pre #MeToo Hollywood, where predators and victims are sometimes hard to distinguish, or one and the same. A deepening spiral of desperation, delusion and debt littered with metaphorical, and occasionally, real, corpses.

This is a new version with an all new creative team - headed by James Grieve and Charlotte Fox, ably assisted by Lata Nobes and Anna Hampton as assistant directors.

R&D work has taken place at both the PEN and Cockpit Theatres in London and previews have developed this version in both the UK and USA.