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VIBRANT 2011 – a Festival of Finborough Playwrights Twelve New Plays, Twelve Finborough Playwrights… Press Information The Finborough Theatre is now fully air conditioned. presents VIBRANT 2011 – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights Twelve new plays, twelve Finborough playwrights… Bekah Brunstetter Rosa Connor Nicholas de Jongh Nell Dunn Omar El-Khairy Nick Gill Sarah Grochala Titas Halder Brian Logan Anders Lustgarten Colleen Murphy Jane Wainwright Directed by Kate Budgen. Daniel Burgess. Ola Ince. Brian Logan. Blanche McIntyre. Rae Mcken. Fidelis Morgan. Fiona Morrell. Eleanor Rhode. Oscar Toeman. Kate Wasserberg. Sam Yates. Curated by Finborough Theatre Artistic Director Neil McPherson Dramaturgy by the Finborough Theatre Literary Department – Literary Manager Van Badham, Senior Reader Ola Ince and Literary Associate Max Pappenheim. Produced by Lucy Jackson and Kate Jagger “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 2011 – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights, its annual festival of Finborough Playwrights, running from 5-30 July 2011. The festival features – and is centred around – a month long run of Nick Gill's Mirror Teeth (originally seen as a staged reading in the very first Vibrant – A Festival of Finborough in 2009), accompanied by a six performance Sunday/Monday run of Nell Dunn's Home Death, together with a late night season of ten staged readings of ten new works for the stage by ten 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 and Vibrant – An Anniversary Festival of Finborough Playwrights in 2010 which saw 30 Finborough playwrights present 30 new works in 30 days, we return to introduce you to some of the fascinating diverse vibrant voices we have nurtured, and we are particularly delighted to present some of the first plays of brand new older writers who continue to be neglected by other new writing organisations. 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 Artistic Director Neil McPherson says: “As in previous years, we hope that our annual festival will be a fascinating and idiosyncratic selection of new plays, with a bias towards startlingly contemporary political work, ranging from the intimate to the epic. The writers’ ages range from their early 20s to their 70s (building on our commitment to nurture writers over 30 who continue to be neglected by other new writing organisations) and they come from a wide variety of backgrounds including playwrights from England (including a new British Asian playwright, a British-Palestinian writer and a new dramatist from the East Midlands), Scotland (with a new play partially in the Scots language) as well as playwrights from Canada and the United States. Vibrant – A Festival of Finborough 2011 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 – the Leverhulme 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 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), for James Graham in 2006, for Al Smith in 2007, for Anders Lustgarten in 2009 and Simon Vinnicombe in 2010. 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. It has also recently won London Theatre Reviews’ Empty Space Peter Brook Award 2010, been named The Stage's Fringe Theatre of the Year and won four awards in this year's inaugural Off West End Awards including Best Artistic Director. ***** The festival features – and is centred around – a month long run of Nick Gill's Mirror Teeth, accompanied by a six performance Sunday/Monday run of Nell Dunn's Home Death, together with a late night season of ten staged readings of brand new plays. MAIN RUN... Tuesday, 5 July – Saturday, 30 July 2011 The World Premiere as part of Vibrant – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights Mirror Teeth by Nick Gill. Directed by Kate Wasserberg. Designed by Philip Lindley. Presented by Brawl in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre. "You might at least say thank you, Jenny. I’ve been out digging a hole for your boyfriend all night. Not to mention severing his legs. Have you ever severed a leg? It’s not as easy as it looks. Not with a blunt spade." The world premiere of Mirror Teeth, a new play by Nick Gill in his first work to be seen in a full production, plays for a limited four-week season from Tuesday, 5 July 2011 (Press Night: Thursday, 7 July 2011 at 7.30pm) at the multi- award-winning Finborough Theatre. Jane is a housewife. James sells guns. They live in one of the larger cities in our country and are both terrified of ethnic youths who might well be wearing hoods and carrying knives, or something. All is well in the Jones household, until their sexually frustrated eighteen year old daughter Jenny brings home her new boyfriend, Kwese Abalo... A visceral, smart, brutally hilarious play about preJudice, arms dealing, and what it means to be English. Playwright Nick Gill makes his professional debut with Mirror Teeth which was first seen as a staged reading part of the original Vibrant – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights at the Finborough Theatre in 2009, and was written with a grant from the Peggy Ramsay Foundation. Nick won the inaugural Lost Theatre 5 Minute Festival with Something I Wrote In A Hurry. His other works include Heaven (shortlisted for the Royal Court Young Writers’ Festival 2007), Funeralesque, FiJi 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 Land (a winner of the inaugural Amnesty International ‘Protect the Human’ Award), This is Never Going To Work and Spiderhead. Mirror Teeth was written with a grant from the Peggy Ramsay Foundation. Director Kate Wasserberg is an Associate Director of Clwyd Theatr Cymru where she has directed Gaslight, Dancing at Lughnasa, Pieces (Clwyd Theatr Cymru and Brits Off Broadway, New York City), The Glass Menagerie (Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Sherman Cardiff and tour of Wales) and James Graham's A History of Falling Things (Clwyd Theatr Cymru and Sherman Cymru, Cardiff.) She was formerly Associate Director of the Finborough Theatre, London, where she directed The Representative, I Wish to Die Singing and The New Morality, and the world premieres of three plays by Finborough Theatre Playwright-in-Residence James Graham – Little Madam, Sons of York and The Man (Time Out Critics’ Choice and **** Four Stars in The Guardian, WhatsOnStage, TNT and The Daily Telegraph). PRESS NIGHT: THURSDAY, 7 JULY 2011 AT 7.30PM PHOTOCALL: TUESDAY, 5 JULY 2011 AT 1.00PM-1.30PM ***** ON SUNDAYS AND MONDAYS... Sundays and Mondays, 10, 11, 17, 18, 24, 25 July 2011 The World Premiere as part of Vibrant – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights Home Death by Nell Dunn. Directed by Fiona Morrell. Presented by Strawberry Vale Productions in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre. "I didn't know. I didn’t know what dying looks like. I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know how to help him” Home Death, a new play by Olivier Award winner Nell Dunn, will play for six performances only on Sunday and Monday evenings from Sunday, 10 July 2011 (Press Night: Monday, 11 July 2011 at 7.30pm). In our materialist culture obsessed with youth, death has become the ultimate taboo. Inspired by real life stories, Home Death is an unflinching yet ultimately uplifting dissection of how our society deals with the reality of dying. 64% of us want to die at home, but in reality only a quarter of us do. A lingering death in a nursing home is one of the biggest fears of the elderly, and yet research from the UK thinktank Demos predicts that by 2013, 90% of us will die in the soulless setting of a hospital ward. Home Death is a courageous and profoundly compassionate new play that raises essential and urgent questions about palliative care in the UK, and celebrates the strength of friendship and love.
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