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Islington Tribune - by PETER GRUNER
Published: 28 September 2007

There’s a new gunner in town as play
shows off its Arsenal!

SAY “arsenal” to an Islington resident and they’ll probably point towards the Emirates stadium, but Noah Lee Margetts has a deadlier interpretation.
The gun-toting star of Cat’s Paw, which opened last night (Thursday) at the King’s Head Theatre in Upper Street, has brought a new arsenal to the borough’s streets, trading the traditional Upper Street cappuccino for an authentic M-16 machine gun.
In the name of dramatic credibility, Mr Margetts has amassed an incredible weapons cache of deadly weapons – all decommissioned, of course – including two M-16 machine guns, two special sorces hand guns, smoke grenades, Howaitzer shells, a 9mm Beretta, and an RPG launcher.
Mr Margetts said: “I got them from an SAS friend of mine and the weapons are kept under lock and key every night in a special room – we can’t just leave them lying around.”
The play, which runs until November 4, is about a group of eco-warriors who decide their message isn’t being heard and take matters into their own hands.
Mr Margetts said: “It’s about radicalisation – it asks what it takes to go from ‘Save the whales’ to ‘Kill the whalers’.”
So does Noah have any military experience?
“If I told you that I’d have to kill you,” he said.

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