Caroline Horton

Mess and You're Not Like The Other Girls Chrissy (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Mess: Josephine is putting on a play - Boris and Sistahl help. It's about anorexia; but don't let that put you off - they are used to the big issues - and today they will tackle a particularly thin elephant in the room. Obsessed with obsession, addiction, and not wanting to get out of bed, Mess is a play with songs from The Stage's 2010 Best Solo Performer Award winner Caroline Horton.

You're Not Like the Other Girls, Chrissy: January 1945. Paris has been liberated. Christiane, an eccentric and acutely myopic Parisian waits at Gare Du Nord for a ticket to England to be reunited with her fiancé. Whilst she waits, this gloriously irrepressible mademoiselle recounts the story of her love affair with Cyril, a tongue-tied English teacher from Staffordshire. You're Not Like Other Girl's Chrissy is a fond, comical and ultimately poignant portrait of one woman's experience of love and war.

This programme text coincides with China Plate Theatre's production of Mess, which is at the Traverse in Edinburgh for August 2012 and then tours the UK until the end of September. You're Not Like Other Girls, Chrissy will play at the Bristol Old Vic for a week with another week on tour to come after.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781408173534
• Artikelnr.: 40532599

Autorenporträt

Caroline Horton spends most of her time creating her own theatre projects as a writer/performer in collaboration with directors, designers and other performers.
The work she makes is funny, stupid and profound - often wild - often personal - sometimes political. It tours nationally and internationally.
As a writer she's always been interested in other media and in 2013, started writing and performing audio dramas for Radio 4, Paris, Nana & Me was nominated for the Imison Award. In 2016 she was BBC Birmingham's first Writer in Residence, working across radio and TV dramas produced in the city. She's written for BBC series including Home Front and the award-winning Tracks.
She also creates/performs or writes theatre pieces for other companies (recently for New Vic Theatre, Derby Theatre and Birmingham University) and she often collaborates as a performer, writer, director, deviser, dramaturg or outside-eye on other people's work.
She regularly mentors emerging theatre makers and companies and leads workshops. She was 2018/19 Creative Fellow at Birmingham University's Shakespeare Institute, teaching undergrads and postgrads and creating a new theatre show supported by RSC
She was nominated for a 2013 Olivier Award for You're Not Like The Other Girls Chrissy. Her second show, Mess toured internationally after opening at The Traverse, where it won a Stage Award. Other work includes Islands (The Bush), Tranklements (New Vic) and Penelope RETOLD (Derby Theatre). All of Me opened in Edinburgh 2019, winning a Stage Award and The Scotsman Mental Health Award and then transferred to The Yard and touring.
www.carolinehorton.net