Sit and Shiver

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Berkoff directed this semi-autobiographical East End comedy, first seen in an earlier version in Los Angeles in 2004. The play centres on a husband and wife who are in mourning for the wife's father. The arrival of a visitor with some astounding news affects the family and friends who have come to pay their respects. Berkoff's previous plays include East, Decadence, Greek, Kvetch and Messiah: Scenes from an Execution, the last of which was seen at the Old Vic in 2003. The cast of Sit and Shiver includes Catherine Bailey, Barry Davis, Iddo Goldberg, Linal Haft, Louise Jameson, Sue Kelvin, Saul Reichlin and Bernice Stegers.Sit and Shiver opened on 29 May 2006 and played for six weeks through 2 July.

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Steven Berkoff was born in Stepney, East London and started acting at the City Literary Institute when he was 19. Following more training at the Webber Douglas School of Drama, he worked extensively in repertory theatre in England and Scotland - doing every job from understudy to stage management. In 1968 he formed his own company, the London Theatre Group. Through mime, gymnastics and voice, the Group liberated themselves from the conventions of mainstream theatre and started to evolve an innovative, more integrated theatrical language. Berkoff's encounter with the mime artist Jacque le Coq in Paris was seminal in this. Steven Berkoff's plays include East, West, Decadence, Kvetch, Acapulco, Ritual in Blood and Oedipus.