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ORAN'S MESSAGE AND INVISIBLE MICE |
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| Sat 12 July 3pm |
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£7.50 / (£5 concs), 14+ |
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ORAN'S MESSAGE Danusia Iwaszko
Francis is stock still. Alan is on the sofa.
ALAN: Franky if you'd...
FRANCIS: Shhh!
Francis looks out of the window then runs across the room and hides.
ALAN: Look Francis, I'll have to go if...
FRANCIS: Shhh, for Christ's sake!
Pause.
FRANCIS: It's today, it's now, I'm sure. Don't ask me how I know, I just do.
Direct yet personal, this is an absorbing, funny and touching new play from a great regional writer you'll be hearing a lot more of in the future.
The Writer Says...
'In an age of labels and rational explanations, is there any room for the visionary? We respect the explorer, the voyager, the spaceman, but do we respect someone who explores the inner space of time and consciousness, who can travel to those places and return unscathed? During the 6th century, Oran was buried alive in the foundations of St Columbia's church on the Isle of Iona. When he was dug up three days later, he said: 'Heaven is not as it is written or Hell as it's supposed to be'. Did Oran engage with a reality that we have lost contact with? Had he experienced what TS Eliot called a 'Wink of Heaven' or was he schizophrenic?'.
Danusia Iwaszko studied drama at Manchester University before working as an actor, TV comedy sketch writer and a teacher at a dyslexic special school. Her plays include A&E (Menagerie), One Glass Wall (Theatre 503) and Rough Cut (Riverside Studios). Danusia's work has been performed in Edinburgh and Sydney, and she wrote a new play called Blood Ties while on attachment to the National Theatre in 2007.
'Danusia Iwaszko's writing is simply spellbinding' Sydney Sunday Telegraph (on Still Life)
INVISIBLE MICE By Kenneth Emson
Part thriller, part black comedy, this is a powerful, super-fast wham-bam of a play from a fantastic new young regional playwright.
Lights up.
JOE: One night a guy walks into a hotel room.
ROB: Could be any hotel.
JOE: Could be any guy.
ROB: But it ain't...
The Writer Says...
'So... I turn off the light and lie in a dark room. Somewhere in my brain/unconscious there's someone/something questioning me about the day/the world. I chase them around my head trying to make some sense of them. Then I realise that I have to write them down, that they won't let it be, that they wonÕt let me sleep. So I chase them with words, like a cat, round the page, trying to make some sense, trying to understand. Then I realise it's them chasing me, just like it always was'.
Born and bred in Essex, Kenneth Emson is a member of The Royal Court Young Writer's Programme. This is his first production for Hotbed/Menagerie. Previous plays include Rural (White Bear), De Sade's Tree (Baron's Court), Stiff Acrylic (Hen and Chickens) and Three Nights (The Baxter Theatre in South Africa). He was selected as one of the seven writers for this year's Old Vic 24 Hour Play event.
'A heady stew of big ideas... Pinteresque menace' Time Out (on Rural)
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