Tom Morton-Smith, Matt Hartley, Kirsty Housley

Making Mischief: Two Radical New Plays (eBook, ePUB)

The Earthworks by Tom Morton-Smith, Myth by Matt Hartley and Kirsty Housley

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Making Mischief Festival features work from some of today's most exciting playwrights who are challenging and questioning our society. The Festival runs from 24 May to 17 June from The Other Place Studio Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.

THE EARTHWORKS: "The universe doesn't care if we know how it works."

On the eve of the activation of the Large Hadron Collider, two strangers - a journalist and a scientist - share their experiences of loss and hope in a funny but deeply touching one-act play.

MYTH:"I can only see wrong choices. Things that will make everything worse."

In one wine-fuelled evening, two couples debate their materialistic lifestyle. As their dinner party descends into chaos, their friendship and their lives are irreparably changed. A play about those things we don't want to see or say.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786822185
• Artikelnr.: 48345923

Autorenporträt

Tom Morton-Smith is a British playwright and screenwriter.

His sell-out adaptation of Studio Ghibli's classic animation, My Neighbour Totoro, opened at the Barbican in October 2022 and returned in November 2023. Presented by executive producer Joe Hisaishi, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Improbable and Nippon TV. With puppets built by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. The show broke box office records, becoming the fastest selling show in the Barbican's history, and opened to critical acclaim.

He is developing several feature films, including The Valley of Hinnom co-written with director Juan Carlos Medina for Quad Films, and Psychodrama for Drama Republic. He is also developing a television series for Drama Republic entitled Rocksavage.

His 2015 play, Oppenheimer, charts the life of J Robert Oppenheimer and the development of the atomic bomb. Written for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Oppenheimer opened at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, before transferring to the Vaudeville Theatre in London's West End. Ravens, a Cold War thriller set during the 1972 World Chess Championship, opened at the Hampstead Theatre in November 2019. The Earthworks appeared at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, in May and June 2017. It appeared as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Mischief Festival and was directed by the RSC's Deputy Artistic Director, Erica Whyman. His debut play, Salt Meets Wound, opened at Theatre503 in May 2007. Everyday Maps for Everyday Use was staged at the Finborough Theatre as part of the PapaTango New Writing Festival 2012.