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Royal Court Theatre JERWOOD THEATRE UPSTAIRS Surprise Theatre Love Letters to the Public Transport System Written and Performed By Molly Taylor . 18 June 2013 Designer Chloe Lamford Design Associates Fly Davis and Ruth Stringer Produced by Holly Gladwell and Louise Stephens Alexander Production Manager Niall Black Stage Manager Jules Slienger Love Letters to the Public Transport System began as an experiment, with a simple brief; to track down bus and train drivers who had taken me on important journeys. What began simply as letter writing grew into a search for other people's experiences; tales of transportation and transformation began to surface. I have only been able to include a few of these tales in this production. The show was nominated for Best New Play at the Scottish Critics Awards in 2011 and last year it enjoyed a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It's a thrill to present it to an unwitting audience at the Royal Court. Original production commissioned and produced by the National Theatre of Scotland. First performed at the Traverse Theatre as part of Reveal (2011).

JERWOOD THEATRE UPSTAIRS Surprise Theatre Sand By Nick Gill . 17 June 2013 Cast Woman Eileen Walsh Man Toby Jones Directed by Vicky Featherstone Designer Chloe Lamford Design Associates Fly Davis and Ruth Stringer Produced by Holly Gladwell and Louise Stephens Alexander Production Manager Niall Black Stage Manager Jules Slienger I need to say thank you to many people, and this is the only place available, so: thank you to my parents, Caryl, Nick Quinn, Mike Bartlett, Duncan Macmillan, all the Apathists, Clare Lizzimore, Vicky Featherstone and, above all, Ve (who puts up with a lot of this sort of stuff). Before this one, I wrote another play called Mirror Teeth, the script of which is available from Oberon Books. If you buy one, I think I get a couple of quid. If you liked this one, and you'd like me to write something else, then please do pester Vicky Featherstone at any hour of the day or night on her personal phone. Thanks for watching.

Death Tax by Lucas Hnath 18 - 22 June As long as you can keep paying, there's really no need to die. 80 year old Maxine is convinced her daughter is paying Nurse Tina to bump her off before an impending tax deadline. A darkly comic play about death and taxes, and how we must live with both. Lucas Hnath is a playwright based in New York City. His previous credits include Death Tax (Humana Festival/Steinberg Award Isaac's Eye (EST) and the short play, NightNight (Humana Festival). Upcoming: A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay about the Death of Walt Disney (SoHo Rep) and Red Speedo (Studio Theatre, DC). Age Guidance 14+ http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/deathtax/?tab=0