Theatre writers Inua Ellams and Stacey Gregg create short sound plays imagined for an impossible space, witnessed in the dark, late at night in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs.
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The Breakaway
By Inua Ellams
Fri 15 Apr & 29 Apr, 10.15pm
"This is where we are. Reds go into position here, in tight formation and prepare to engage the hostile.â€
In a high stakes game, the red, the coloured and the white balls collide.
Thunderhead
by Stacey Gregg
Fri 22 Apr & 6 May, 10.15pm
“May Day. May Day. This is Lieutenant Corporal Bill Rankin – I have a defective engine …â€
A journey through a void. Inspired by a real event.
The Playwrights
Born in Nigeria in 1984, Inua Ellams is an internationally touring poet, playwright, performer, graphic artist & designer. He has published three pamphlets of poetry: Candy Coated Unicorns and Converse All Stars, Thirteen Fairy Negro Tales and The Wire-Headed Heathen. His first play The 14th Tale (a one-man show which he performed) was awarded a Fringe First at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and his third, Black T-Shirt Collection ran at the National Theatre. He lives and works from London, where he founded the Midnight Run, a nocturnal urban excursion.
Stacey Gregg is a playwright and performer from Belfast. Previous work includes Shibboleth and Perve (BBC Radio Drama Award) (Abbey Dublin); Scorch with Primecut/Outburst/ The Mac (Irish Times Best New Play), Lagan (Ovalhouse London), Override (Palace Theatre Watford) and I'm Spilling My Heart Out Here (National Theatre Connections). As a performer Stacey's work includes Everything Between Us (Rough Magic Theatre Company), Moth (The Bush/Hightide) and Pussy Riot (The Bush/Southbank Centre). She co-created an interactive web installation for CRASSH; is currently under commission with the BBC; and Clean Break, working with women in the criminal justice system and live artist Deborah Pearson.
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