Following on from the success of 50 Ways to Leave your Lover and 50 Ways to Leave your Lover at Christmas, the Bush has commissioned five of London's hottest new Playwrights Zawe Ashton, James Graham, Joel Horwood, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm and Michelle Terry for our next audience inspired summer romp suddenlossofdignity.com.
You can insure your car, your luggage and your pets against loss: why not your dignity? suddenlossofdignity.com lets you do just that. Make your claim and we'll send you back others' tales of humiliation and ignominy to cheer you up. Our crack team of playwrights will then use our favourite stories (anonymously of course) to create a show that will make you laugh, cry, cringe, and hold your head up high once more.
For all those of you who have unwittingly tucked your skirt into your knickers, pestered your ex with drink-and-dial or decided that your sister's wedding was the ideal time to try your hand at breakdancing, suddenlossofdignity.com is the ideal collective therapy – hilarious, revealing and oddly touching.
Come all ye undignified, you have nothing left to lose.
Bush On Tour
Drum Theatre Plymouth 1-4 July
Tobacco Factory Theatre 9-11 July
Latitude Festival 16-19 July
Ustinov @ Theatre Royal Bath 23-25 July
LIFT Molten Festival, Barking 25 August
Anthea Williams is the Associate Director at the Bush Theatre in charge of bushfutures, the company's outreach and development arm. She also manages bushgreen.org – a new social networking and play publishing website for playwrights.
While at the Bush she has directed TURF by Simon Vinnicombe and TWO CIGARETTES by Jack Thorne and developed and directed 50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER and 50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER AT CHRISTMAS by Leah Chillery, Ben Ellis, Stacey Gregg, Lucy Kirkwood, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm and Ben Schiffer; suddenlossofdignity.com with Zawe Ashton, James Graham, Joel Horwood, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm and Michelle Terry.
Prior to working at the Bush she lived in Auckland and was the Co-Artistic Director of SmackBang Theatre Company and the Producer of Massive Company, where she produced new plays and national and international tours. Anthea trained as a director at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne and the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
Theatre includes The Man Who Had All the Luck (Donmar Warehouse); In The Heart of America (John Gielgud Theatre); Sentenced (Union Theatre); 16 Minutes (Nabakov); Breaktime (Pleasance Theatre); Lost Yet Found (Hampstead Theatre)
Television includes Holby City, The Bill, Missing, Plus One, Lewis II, Wire in the Blood
Film includes Artefacts, 'Till Something Better Comes Along
Theatre includes The Receptionists, 13 O' Clock, Maybe We Could (Pleasance, Edinburgh); Fanny and Madge (Gilded Ballroom, Edinburgh/Old Red Lion)
Television includes Survivors, Boy A, The Catherine Tate Show, The Complete Guide to Parenting, Seven Second Delay, Green Wing, No Child of Mine
Film includes Sydney Turtlebaum, The World According to Albert Landers, The Boat That Rocked, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Theatre includes A Midsummer Night's Dream. Love's Labour's Lost (RSC, Novello Theatre); Catch (Royal Court); Far Away, Fen, 23:59 (Sheffield Crucible Theatre); Eliza's House (Manchester Royal Exchange); Billy and the Crab Lady (Soho Theatre)
Television includes Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Tripping Over, Dr Who, Sister Frances, From Bard to Verse, Mersey Beat and Holby City
Film includes St Trinians, The Brussels, Blood on Benefits and Vanity Fair
Hugh Skinner returns to the Bush Theatre, where he previously appeared in 2 May 1997 and Suddenlossofdignity.com. His other theatre work includes The Great Game (Tricycle Theatre), Angry Young Man (Trafalgar Studios), The Enchantment (National Theatre), Senora Carrar’s Rifles (Young Vic), and ); French Without Tears (Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford). Television credits include Any Human Heart, Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Bonkers; and for film, Day of the Dead.
