The Royal Exchange Theatre in association with the Bush Theatre presents the 2011 Bruntwood Prize-Winner
Siblings Tiana, Tionne and Tanika have found themselves home alone. Tiana’s keeping it all together by taking charge of housework and homework.
But Tionne’s experiments are getting stranger and Tanika’s starting to act up. As the outside world begins to press in, the three will do anything to keep their secret safe from the adults who come to call.
A startling and darkly comic drama about childhood, family and fantasy.
Set in South East London, Three Birds by London writer Janice Okoh was the winner of the 2011 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting.
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Emma has been an Associate Artist of the Bush Theatre and her credits here include Three Birds, Where’s My Seat, Like A Fishbone, The Whiskey Taster, If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet, 2nd May 1997, Apologia, The Contingency Plan, Wrecks, Broken Space Season, 2000 Feet Away, My Romantic History and Tinderbox.
Theatre credits include Great Expectations (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Elizabeth (Royal Opera House), The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe (Birmingham Rep), The Oresteia (Home Theatre, Manchester), Wuthering Heights, The Merchant Of Venice, Consensual (NYT), The Effect (Sheffield Theatres), Henry The Fifth (Unicorn Theatre, Imaginate Festival), All My Sons (Talawa Theatre, UK Tour), Hello/Goodbye, The Blackest Black, #aiww: The Arrest Of Ai Wei Wei, Lay Down Your Cross, Blue Heart Afternoon (Hampstead Theatre), Each His Own Wilderness, Widower’s House (Orange Tree Theatre), Accolade (St James Theatre), Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (Royal Exchange, Royal And Derngate And Northern Stage), Pitcairn (Out of Joint, Chichester Festival Theatre & UK Tour), Saints (Nuffield), The Colby Sisters Of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Tricycle Theatre), Pests (Clean Break, Royal Exchange & Royal Court), Carthage (Finborough Theatre, Coriolanus, Berenice, The Physicists, Making Noise Quietly, The Recruiting Officer (Donmar Warehouse), All My Sons, A Doll’s House, Three Birds, The Accrington Pals, Lady Windermere’s Fan (Royal Exchange), Much Ado About Nothing (Old Vic), Nut (National Theatre), OMG! (Sadlers Wells, The Place & Company Of Angels), There Are Mountains (Clean Break, HMP Askham Grange), The Promise (Donmar Warehouse at Trafalgar Studios), You Can Still Make A Killing (Southwark Playhouse), The Sacred Flame (English Touring Theatre), Black T-Shirt Collection (Fuel UK Tour and National Theatre), Invisible (Transport UK Tour & Luxemborg), Much Ado About Nothing (Wyndhams Theatre, West End), Precious Little Talent (Trafalgar Studios), Charged (Clean Break, Soho Theatre), Men Should Weep (National Theatre), Travels With My Aunt (Northampton Theatre Royal), Sisters (Sheffield Theatres), Pornography (Birmingham Rep/Traverse and Tricycle Theatre), Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat (National Theatre), Europe (Dundee Rep, Barbican Pit).
Emma is the Associate Sound Designer for the National Theatre’s production of War Horse. She won the Falstaff Award for Best Sound Design/Original Score for her work on Coriolanus at the Donmar Warehouse in 2014.
In 2011 Janice won the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting for THREE BIRDS, which was also shortlisted for the Verity Bargate and Alfred Fagon Awards. Her play EGUSI SOUP was produced by Menagerie and Soho Theatre in May 2012, and she has also written short plays for Menagerie, Theatre503, Soho Theatre and Islington Community Theatre. Janice is also an established radio dramatist. Most recently she adapted Malorie Blackman’s cult novel NOUGHTS AND CROSSES for BBC Radio 4 (Saturday Play). Her current commissions include plays for the Tricycle Theatre and BBC Radio 4, and she will be participating in the 2012-13 BBC Drama Writers Academy.
LOUIE WHITEMORE (Designer) Trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Designing credits include Messiah (Danish Opera); Angelina Ballerina (English National Ballet); Lulu, TaniwhaThames, Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Ovalhouse); Carmen (Dorset Opera); Serse (Iford Opera); Egusi Soup (Soho Theatre); Mud (Gate Theatre); La Fille Du Régiment (Diva Opera); The Adventure (HighTide 2012); Good Soul (YoungVic); I Am A Superhero (OldVic New Voices at Theatre503); The Criminals, House of Bones (Platform Theatre); The Magic Flute, Carmen, La bohème, Albert Herring, The Marriage of Figaro (costumes For Co-Opera Co); InTents (Bad Physics); Crossed Keys (Eastern Angels); Hotbed New Writing Festival 2012 (Menagerie); An Ideal Husband (Heartbreak Productions); Dracula (National Theatre); Black BattlesWith Dogs, Summerfolk, Two Planks and a Passion, Much Ado About Nothing, The Winter’sTale, Figaro Gets Divorced, The Wild Duck, The Rehearsal, The Kitchen (The Cochrane); TheTempest (Sprite Productions); Hotel Medea (Arcola Theatre); The Bicycle Men (King’s Head Theatre); Lucifer Saved (Finborough Theatre); Bed and Breakfast (The Underbelly);The Bite of the Night (Chandler Studios); Twelfth Night (The Arches, Glasgow). As Associate Designer credits include The Nutcracker (Shanghai Ballet); The Nutcracker (English National Ballet). As Assistant Designer credits include Nabucco (La Scala/Royal Opera House); Parsifal (Royal Opera House); Mike Leigh Project/Grief (National Theatre); Norma (Grange Park Opera); Provincial Life (National Theatre Wales); Alessandro (Royal College of Music); The Pearl Fishers, Turandot, Herodiade (Dorset Opera); Uncle Vanya (Rose Theatre, Kingston).
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