Monday 27 November 2006
The Old Red Lion Theatre, EC1V 4NJ (nearest tube: Angel)
7:30pm - £5 - reserve your place by calling 020 7837 7816
Here's the jam packed line-up:
Unrequited by James Cawood (Theatre). Directed by Tara Wilkinson.
We are constantly bombarded with a dangerous and obsessive word. A word that breeds dangerous and obsessive people. "Celebrity". Unrequited charts the meeting of two people: the obsessed, and the obsession. James Cawood's first full-length play Farmhands was shortlisted for the International Playwriting Festival Award.
Simon Brodkin (Comedy)
Simon is one of the UK's most exciting young comics, described by Harry Hill as "the funniest new act I've seen in years." His acclaimed show Everyone But Himself scooped the Best Newcomer Award at The List / Writer's Guild Awards at this year's Edinburgh Festival, and he has recently been seen on E4 in Simon Brodkin's Comedy Shorts.
Dear Aunty Elvis created by Hamish Pirie (Theatre)
Everybody has something they want to say but can't. Whether to a dead relative, the beautiful man on the bus, Prince William or a kid you bullied... a random selection of people have written these letters. Someone has to make sense of the purgatory of the post service - the undelivered mail.
Romance by Al Smith (Theatre). Directed by Michael Longhurst.
A short vitriolic play about romance, toothpaste and Greenpeace. Al Smith's play Enola won The Sunday Times Playwrighting Award. Astronaut Wives Club premiered at Soho and his latest play, Radio, transferred to the same venue having premiered at this summer's Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Luke Wright (Poetry)
shorts favourite Luke Wright will be testing out a couple of bits from his new show Luke Wright, Poet and Man, the follow-up to his hugely successful Edinburgh show Luke Wright, Poet Laureate. Expect high paced acerbic poetics on stuff like terrorism, Heat and South Mimms Services.
Waiting for Superman by Marcus Condron (Theatre). Directed by Nathan Curry.
Martin is an ordinary man whose three-year battle to see his child has pushed him to the edge. As other people in the café, a waitress, her nephew and young man, start to criticise the father's rights march that he has just been on, Peter ends up an unlikely hostage taker. Marcus Condron is the artistic director of the award winning theatre company We Could Be Kings for whom he has written and directed two plays, murmur and Monkey Think, Monkey Do; and adapted the Alex Garland novel The Coma. Nathan Curry is currently Assistant Director on A Moon for the Misbegotten at The Old Vic and is Artistic Director of tangled feet, whose award winning physical productions have toured and UK and Europe.
Rough for Crumbed Ham I by James Wilton (Theatre). Directed by Polly Findlay.
Taking its cue from Beckett's Rough for Theatre I, this embryonic slice of James' latest play deals with the tension between two brothers from a comfortable English family, and seeks to dramatise the limitless torment of a fridge irresponsibly emptied. James has had short works staged by The Royal Court Theatre and is developing short and long film projects. His first half-length play Why They Made Me King appeared at this year's Edinburgh Fringe and was described by The Scotsman as "A marvelously entertaining yarn...stuffed with dazzling young talent."
Pretty monumental we think you'll agree, so book your place now on 020 7837 7816 or you'll be watching on the big screen outside.
