Popcorn: 11th - 14th February 2004 at the Trestle Arts Base in St. Albans, Hertfordshire.

Pete Hawes as Bruce Delamitri and Brian Benson as Wayne Hudson

Bruce Delamitri shoots movies. Witty, violent, post-modern thrillers. He is the King of Hollywood.

Wayne and Scout shoot people. The police, security guards, popcorn-sellers, innocent bystanders. They are the notorious ‘Mall-Murderers’. Hollywood’s favourite serial killers.

Despite going through a bitter divorce with his vicious wife Farrah, and having to repeatedly defend his sexually and violently graphic pictures to the outraged American public, life could not be better for Bruce. Sitting in the living room of his luxurious Beverly Hills mansion, with an Oscar in one pocket, and the well-manicured hand of gorgeous playboy model Brooke Daniels in the other, life is perfect.

Then Wayne and Scout take a step into this life and it all goes horribly, violently, wrong ...

In the space of a couple of hours, Bruce’s idyllic life is torn apart as he comes face-to-gun-barrel with the real-life versions of the dangerous anti-heroes his movies glamourise, and once more finds himself defending his movies.

Only this time it is not just his reputation on the line, but his life ... and the life of his daughter.

Popcorn is a dark, fast-paced comic satire written by Ben Elton, and based on his novel of the same name. In an increasingly violent, media-obsessed society, it asks the question ...

"Who is responsible?"