Brown Bird
by Lee Mattinson
One woman. One secret. And One Direction.
Brown Owl Beth is the model Brown Owl. She’s selfless, sensible and everyone comes second to her sixes. But when ten year old Phoebe becomes the new addition to her proud nest, Beth’s commitment to a good deed every day is tested to breaking point.
Because Brown Owl Beth brings about a chain of events from which her community may never recover, one which may leave this bird with more than broken wings.
Chalk Farm
by AJ Taudevin and Kieran Hurley
Award-winning playwrights Kieran Hurley and AJ Taudevin, join forces with highly-acclaimed ThickSkin (Blackout, The Static), in this explosive new play about love and blame in the aftermath of the 2011 London riots.
Through a mother’s desire for safety and acceptance and a young boy’s need to be recognised, to be part of something, Chalk Farm offers an uncompromising and ultimately heartbreaking examination of a fractured society.
A point marked in time when it all began to crack, when the game is over, when the surface is ripped open showing what the world really looks like. And we were there.
Chalk Farm features ThickSkin’s trademark style of heart-stopping visual theatre, fusing multi-media, movement and text. Please note that Chalk Farm has a 14+ age restriction.
DATES AND DETAILS
Friday 15 & Saturday 16 November, 7.30pm, £15 (£13 concessions and £10 Bush Connect tickets)
Price of ticket includes admission to both shows.
Laura is a director, writer and facilitator.
As Writer/Director theatre credits include: Parked (Flex:Tin Arts), Heartbreak Soup (The Empty Space, shortlisted for the 2008 Total Theatre Awards), Fishing for Salt , Where You Left Me (Theatre Tantaraa), Donna Disco (Chicken Pox Fox/Live Theatre), Something About Nothing, Sawdust & Stardust, The Winter’s Tale of Poppy McFloss (Live Theatre), Totie Blether (Northern Stage), A Story (The Customs House). As Writer: Wee Red (Kellagher/Querol) The Stranding (Theatre Tantaraa), Jack & The Beanstalk (Dance City), Collision (Theatre 503), Wanting For Anghus (Ink Productions, Bridging the Gap Award 2011), Bad Tenant, Court, Mine, She Said (Live Theatre). As Director: The Snowmaker (Northern Stage), Torro Madness School (Live Theatre), Hogwash, Sad Socks: Happy Socks (Monster Productions)
Laura was finalist for ‘Writer of the Year’ at The Journal Culture Awards 2009. She doubles as Lead Clown Doctor Dr Lulu McDoo/Brenny Briefcase (Tin Arts) and is Creative Director of Theatre Tantaraa. She appeared in David Greig’s Dalgety (Theatre Uncut: Live Theatre 2013), The Age (The Paper Birds: NStage, Title Pending) , and is currently developing her first solo show The Artistry of a Fine Line.
Neil is co-founder and Artistic Director of ThickSkin. Directing credits for ThickSkin include: Chalk Farm, The Static (winner of the Scottish Theatre Award and ThreeWeeks Editors’ Award), Blackout (winner of The Arches Brick Award), Overture and These Imagined Stories. Co-direction for ThickSkin includes Boy Magnet and White Noise. As Associate Director / Choreographer: Blood Wedding and The Bacchae (The Royal & Derngate’s Festival of Chaos). For Frantic Assembly, Neil was Associate Director of Beautiful Burnout and Lovesong, and Assistant Director of Dirty Wonderland. As Associate Choreographer: The Full Monty (Sheffield Theatres) and The Light Princess (the National Theatre). Other directing credits include: Playlist for the Belgrade Theatre Coventry and Brave for BAC Homegrown. Other movement direction includes: Much Ado About Wenlock (Vamos Theatre); Platform (Old Vic New Voices); Henry IV Part One (Drum Theatre Plymouth); One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Secret Cinema); Stanley Pickle an animated short film (NFTS, winner of 31 awards worldwide). As Video Designer: In An Alien Landscape (Birds of Paradise).
