JERWOOD THEATRE UPSTAIRS
Surprise Theatre
Sand
By Nick Gill
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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
Our weekly rep ensemble meet for the first time for a group photo.
Weekly Rep runs at as part of the Open Court festival at Royal Court
11 June -- 20 July
Tickets £20
http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/season/weekly-rep-open-court
The Royal Court Theatre & Fuel
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
Surprise Theatre
Inua Ellams'
The 14th Tale
11 June 2013
Written & performed by Inua Ellams
Directed by Thierry Lawson
Lighting Designer Michael Nabarro
Production Manager Rob Pell-Walpole
For the Royal Court:
Designer Chloe Lamford
Design Associates Fly Davis and Ruth Stringer
Produced by Holly Gladwell and Louise Stephens Alexander
Production Manager Tariq Rifaat
Stage Manager Sophie Rubenstein
An exuberant and touching autobiographical tale that charts the hilarious exploits of a natural born mischief, growing from the clay streets of Nigeria to the roof tops of Dublin and finally to London. In deft and beautiful poetry Fringe First winner Inua Ellams challenges expectations of what it is to be a young, black male in London today.
inuaellams.com @inuaellams
fueltheatre.com @FuelTheatre #14thTale
A BAC Scratch Commission with Apples & Snakes. A London Word Festival Commission. Funded by Arts Council England
Cakes and Finance
Collated and Performed by Mark Ravenhill
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10 June 2013
Directed by Richard Twyman
Projected Images by Marc Funda
Edited from recorded interviews with:
April De Angelis, Howard Brenton, Tim Crouch, Chris Goode, Zinnie Harris, Ella Hickson, Gregory Motton, Philip Ridley, Simon Stephens
Produced by Holly Gladwell and Louise Stephens Alexander
Production Manager Tariq Rifaat
Stage Manager Pandora Elrington
Over the last ten days Mark Ravenhill conducted individual interviews with playwrights asking them the question what is your 'ideal theatre' this performance lecture is a distillation of their responses.
Our writers have concealed 10 new plays around the Royal Court. All you have to do is find them. Pick up some headphones and start seeking.
Lost in Theatre will include five minute plays by Alex Bulmer, Leo Butler, E.V. Crowe, Clint Dyer, Amber Hsu, Archie Maddocks, Abi Morgan, Nessah Muthy, Luke Norris and Penelope Skinner.
Daily. Free, with a small deposit for headsets available from the Box Office during Box Office opening hours or free to download as a podcast.
Not Bookable in advance.
Access only performance Sat 1.30pm-2.30pm -- please inform box office if you have any access needs.
http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/lostintheatre
Primetime
Fri 19 & Sat 20 July 2013
Twelve short plays written by 8-11 year olds performed as productions in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs by a company of professional actors and directed by Simon Godwin.
Part of Kids Week: a week of plays, workshops and special events curated by young playwrights as part of our Open Court summer season.
http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/kids-court-primetime/
Soap Opera
1 - 13 July
Bussey Building, Peckham
Tickets FREE (not bookable in advance)
Omnibus tickets: Pay What You Can
www.royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/soapopera
#OpenCourt
In her first summer at the helm of the Royal Court Theatre, new Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone will hand over the building to the playwrights in Open Court -- a six week festival (10 June -- 20 July) of plays, ideas and events chosen and suggested by a group of over 140 writers.
New Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone talks about the Royal Courts summer season -- Open Court. A six week festival (10 June -- 20 July) of plays, ideas and events chosen and suggested by a group of over 140 writers.
See what happens behind the scenes in our 18th Century set play The Low Road by Bruce Norris. Iona Kenrick and Jackie Orton from the Royal Court costume department talk about the challenges of creating a show with 22 actors and over 100 different costume s and characters.
We caught up with a few of our Unheard Voices writers after an 11-week playwriting programme aimed at developing and nurturing new playwrights of Somali descent.
New Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone talks about the Royal Courts summer season -- Open Court. A six week festival (10 June -- 20 July) of plays, ideas and events chosen and suggested by a group of over 140 writers.
Narrative
Written and directed Anthony Neilson
A new play about stories.
5 Apr -- 4 May
Formisdead.co.uk
Renowned for his pioneering, ground-breaking and imaginative new work, Anthony Neilson's work at the Royal Court includes Get Santa!, Relocated, The Wonderful World of Dissocia (winner Best Production in both the TMA and Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland), Heredity, The Lying Kind and The Censor, which won the Writers Guild and Time Out Award. His other work includes Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness (Headlong Theatre), Stitching (The Traverse, The Bush -- Time Out Off West End Award) and Normal (Edinburgh Festival). His films include The Debt Collector andDeeper Still.
Age Guidance 14+.
Narrative
Written and directed Anthony Neilson
A new play about stories.
5 Apr -- 4 May
Formisdead.co.uk
Renowned for his pioneering, ground-breaking and imaginative new work, Anthony Neilson's work at the Royal Court includes Get Santa!, Relocated, The Wonderful World of Dissocia (winner Best Production in both the TMA and Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland), Heredity, The Lying Kind and The Censor, which won the Writers Guild and Time Out Award. His other work includes Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness (Headlong Theatre), Stitching (The Traverse, The Bush -- Time Out Off West End Award) and Normal (Edinburgh Festival). His films include The Debt Collector andDeeper Still.
Age Guidance 14+.
Narrative
Written and directed Anthony Neilson
A new play about stories.
5 Apr -- 4 May
Formisdead.co.uk
Renowned for his pioneering, ground-breaking and imaginative new work, Anthony Neilson's work at the Royal Court includes Get Santa!, Relocated, The Wonderful World of Dissocia (winner Best Production in both the TMA and Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland), Heredity, The Lying Kind and The Censor, which won the Writers Guild and Time Out Award. His other work includes Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness (Headlong Theatre), Stitching (The Traverse, The Bush -- Time Out Off West End Award) and Normal (Edinburgh Festival). His films include The Debt Collector andDeeper Still.
Age Guidance 14+.
The Low Road
By Bruce Norris
Directed by Dominic Cooke
A fable of free market economics and cut-throat capitalism.
22 March - 11 May
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs
020 7565 5000
Book Now
www.royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/the-low-road
By will Adamsdale, with additional material from Jason Barnett, Chris Branch, Matthew Steer & Melanie Wilson
A Royal Court and Fuel co-production
At the Royal Court from 11 May - 8 June.
From a forested Polish village to the blinding lights of London, A Time to Reap is a play that looks at one woman's story against the mountain landscape of an evolving nation and one of Poland's hottest political topics -- abortion and the Catholic Church.
A Time to Reap
Written by Anna Wakulik
Translated by Catherine Grosvenor
22 February - 23 March
Royal Court Theatre
www.royalcourttheatre.com
Sand by Nick Gill - Surprise Theatre 17 June, Royal Court
Death Tax - Writer and Director interview
Inua Ellams' The 14th Tale - Surprise Theatre from Royal Court
Surprise Theatre, 10 June - Cakes and Finance by Mark Ravenhill
Meet the Primetime playwrights
Making the Peckham Soap Opera - a look behind the scenes
Open Court - The writers have the keys
Open Court -Vicky Featherstone Interview (subtitled)
The Low Road - Costume and Wardrobe
Unheard Voices 2013: writers of Somali descent
Open Court - Vicky Featherstone Interview
Anna Wakulik on 'A Time to Reap'
If You Don't Let Us Dream, We Won't Let You Sleep
