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VIBRANT 2012 – a FESTIVAL of FINBOROUGH PLAYWRIGHTS Twelve New Plays, Twelve Finborough Playwrights… Press Information presents VIBRANT 2012 – A FESTIVAL OF FINBOROUGH PLAYWRIGHTS Twelve new plays, twelve Finborough playwrights… Curated by Finborough Theatre Artistic Director Neil McPherson. Produced by Chris Foxon and Luke Holbrook. Craig Adams Bekah Brunstetter Pamela Carter Chris Dunkley Dawn King Anders Lustgarten Colleen Murphy Matt Roberts Nona Shepphard Chris Thompson Simon Vinnicombe Joy Wilkinson Alexandra Wood Directed by Justin Audibert. Sarah Bedi. Robert Hastie. Louise Hill. Stephen Keyworth. Alex Marker. Blanche McIntyre. David Mercatali. Donnacadh O’Briain. Max Pappenheim. Amelia Sears. Nona Shepphard. “The Earl's Court play-generating boiler room...The Finborough's achievement is a mighty one, doing more for new writing on little or no money than some other, better-funded theatres.” Lyn Gardner, The Guardian The multi-award-winning Finborough Theatre presents Vibrant 2012 – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights, its annual festival of Finborough Playwrights, running between 4–22 November 2012. The festival features twelve staged readings of twelve new works for the stage by twelve UK and international playwrights, discovered, developed or championed by the Finborough Theatre. Following the hugely successful Vibrant – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights in October 2009, Vibrant – An Anniversary Festival of Finborough Playwrights in 2010 which saw 30 Finborough playwrights present 30 new works in 30 days and Vibrant – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights in July 2011, we return for the fourth year to introduce you to some of the fascinating, diverse and vibrant voices we have nurtured. Vibrant – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights is another great opportunity to see the fruits of the work that happens behind the scenes at the Finborough Theatre as we continue to discover and develop a new generation of theatre makers through our acclaimed Literary Department, our internship programme, our Resident Assistant Director Programme, and our partnership with the National Theatre Studio through their Bursary for Emerging Directors. Despite remaining completely unfunded, the Finborough Theatre has an unparalleled track record of discovering new playwrights who go on to become leading voices in British theatre. Under Artistic Director Neil McPherson, it has 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED Telephone 020 7244 7439 e-mail [email protected] www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk Artistic Director Neil McPherson The Finborough Theatre is managed by The Steam Industry. Registered in England and Wales as a company limited by guarantee, no. 3448268. Registered Charity no. 1071304. Registered address: 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED. A member of the Independent Theatre Council. Press Information discovered some of the UK’s most exciting new playwrights including Laura Wade, James Graham, Mike Bartlett, Sarah Grochala, Jack Thorne, Joy Wilkinson, Simon Vinnicombe, Alexandra Wood, Al Smith, Nicholas de Jongh and Anders Lustgarten. It is the only theatre without public funding to be awarded the prestigious Pearson Playwriting Award bursary for writers Chris Lee in 2000, Laura Wade in 2005 (who also went on to win the Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright, the George Devine Award and an Olivier Award nomination), James Graham in 2006, Al Smith in 2007, Anders Lustgarten in 2009 (also winner of the inaugural Harold Pinter Award), Simon Vinnicombe in 2010 and Dawn King in 2011. Three bursary holders (Laura Wade, James Graham and Anders Lustgarten) have also won the Catherine Johnson Award for Best Play written by a bursary holder. Artistic Director Neil McPherson won The Writers’ Guild Award for the Encouragement of New Writing in 2010 and has twice won the OffWestEnd Award for Best Artistic Director. THE PLAYS Sunday, 4 November 2012 at 7.30pm The Andes by Alexandra Wood. Directed by David Mercatali. Argentina, 2001. A young activist discovers she has a more personal link to her country's troubled past than she ever imagined. What if you're not who you thought you were? What if you're connected to everything you ever despised? Playwright Alexandra Wood was Literary Manager at the Finborough Theatre from 2006-2007. Her plays include the adaptation of Jung Chang’s Wild Swans (Young Vic, A.R.T., Actors Touring Company), Decade (Headlong), Unbroken (Gate Theatre), The Lion’s Mouth (Rough Cuts at the Royal Court Theatre), The Eleventh Capital (Royal Court Theatre) and the radio play Twelve Years (BBC Radio 4). Short plays include Binary (curious directive at the HighTide Festival), Expecting and Thirty Two Years is Nothing (Rose Bruford at the BAC) and Mile to Go (nabokov at the Latitude Festival). She won the George Devine Award and her work has been shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award and the Patrick White Playwrights’ Award. Director David Mercatali is Associate Director at the Southwark Playhouse. He was nominated in the Outstanding Newcomer category of the 2011 Evening Standard Theatre awards. Directing includes Tender Napalm (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, National Tour and Southwark Playhouse), Someone to Blame (King's Head Theatre), Moonfleece (Riverside Studios and National Tour), People's Day (Pleasance London), Weights (Blue Elephant Theatre) and Runners - The Return (Underbelly, Edinburgh Festival). Monday, 5 November 2012 at 7.30pm The Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie by Anders Lustgarten. Directed by Justin Audibert. An epic, tremendously humane play about the world's most exciting society: China. It follows a clutch of compelling and believable people across seventy years of socialism, capitalism and everything in between. From the communes of Maoism to the factories of Shenzhen, The Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie shows you the complexity of China's relationship between the traditional and the modern like no other fiction has. Playwright Anders Lustgarten is a political playwright and activist. This is his fifth play for the Finborough Theatre where he is Playwright in Residence. Last year he won the inaugural Harold Pinter Playwright's Award at the Royal Court Theatre. Director Justin Audibert is the current recipient of the National Theatre Studio Bursary for Emerging Directors in association with the Finborough Theatre. From April to October 2012, he was Resident Director at the National Theatre Studio and Associate Director at the Finborough Theatre. Direction includes Front by Vickie Donoghue (RADA Festival), The Tempest (Royal Shakespeare Company), Future Regrets (Royal Shakespeare Company at the Live Theatre Newcastle) and Company along the Mile (West Yorkshire Playhouse, Arcola Theatre and The Lowry, Manchester). From 2009 to 2011, he was Assistant Director on the Long Ensemble at the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he has assisted Lucy Bailey, Gregory Doran and David Farr. Justin has taught or directed at Drama Centre, GSA, WAC and ArtsEd, and was Director of Stage and Acting Tutor to the finalists of BBC2’s Shakespeare Off By Heart. He is an Education Associate Practitioner for the Royal Shakespeare Company. 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED Telephone 020 7244 7439 e-mail [email protected] www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk Artistic Director Neil McPherson The Finborough Theatre is managed by The Steam Industry. Registered in England and Wales as a company limited by guarantee, no. 3448268. Registered Charity no. 1071304. Registered address: 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED. A member of the Independent Theatre Council. Press Information Wednesday, 7 November 2012 at 3.00pm Blackpool by Matt Roberts. Directed by Amelia Sears. Nicola lives with her incapacitated, abusive Mum, works in a chip shop on the pier and is not happy. On the day of her thirtieth birthday, a stranger arrives with news that changes her life forever. Blackpool is a serious comedy about love, loyalty and obligation. It follows the fraught isolation of a family stranded together, in a town where roller coasters and donkeys just aren’t what they used to be. Playwright Matt Roberts trained in Acting at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. His one-act plays The Muse, Risk and Treading Water have been staged at the Soho Theatre, the Crucible Theatre Sheffield, Theatre 503, the Pleasance Theatre and the Tristan Bates Theatre. He has been part of the Soho Young Writers Group and is co-founding Artistic Director of new writing company Papatango. Earlier this year, his debut short film Will Sampson (…and the self- perpetuating cycle of unintended abstinence) received its world premiere at Palm Springs Film Festival. Blackpool is Matt’s first full-length play. Director Amelia Sears has directed Brimstone and Treacle (Arcola Theatre), Swifter, Higher, Stronger (Roundhouse), Pedestrian (Bristol Old Vic and Edinburgh Festival), The Last Five Years (Duchess Theatre), Jesus Christ it's Christmas, Love in Idleness, The Grill Chef (Paper Aeroplane Theatre Company at the Bristol Old Vic), and for Westhill Productions of which she is Artistic Director – The Wolf, An Expedition, The Real Inspector Hound and Cold Comfort Farm. She has been an Associate/Staff Director for Ghosts (Duchess Theatre), Twelfth Night (Donmar West End at the Wyndham's Theatre), One Evening and Four Quartets (Lincoln Center, New York City), Al Gran Sole Carico D’Amore (Salzburg Opera Festival), Some Trace of Her, The Year of Magical Thinking and Statement of Regret (National Theatre) and Bliss (Royal Court Theatre). Amelia was the recipient of the 2007/8 Bulldog Princep Directors' Bursary at the National
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