On Sunday night you saw...

Present : Tense / Thirteen

Sarah Solemani presents...
BIFURCATED
By Sarah Solemani and Ryan Ormonde
Directed by Adam Lenson
Starring Arrash Rizi, Elspeth Rae, Abigail Andjel, Tom Kanji

Box of Tricks Theatre Company presents...
SWABS
by Kenneth Emson
Directed by Hannah Tyrrell-Pinder and Adam Quayle
Movement Direction by Robin Guiver
Starring Matt Bloxham, Bronya Deutsch, Tunji Falana, Chameli Meir, Rhoda Offori-Attah, Michael Quartey, Jai Rajani, Natasha James, Abi Hood

Paul Jellis presents...
THE SPIT OF ME
By Adam Barnard
Directed by Melanie Hillyard
Music written and performed by Betty Steeles
Starring Paul Jellis, Christopher Harper, Hasan Dixon

Drywrite presents...
DRYCLEAN
Written and directed by Vicky Jones and Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Starring Cian Barry, Julia Sandiford, Hannah Scott, Lachlan Chapman, Caroline Kilpatrick

Present : Tense / Thirteen was produced by Emma Laugier for nabokov and stage managed by Martha Mamo.

We'd like to say a huge thanks to everyone at Southwark Playhouse for having us, to all the amazing artists we worked with who created such incredible work, and to everyone who came to watch. Cheers everyone.

The next Present : Tense will be at Southwark Playhouse sometime in February 2010. See you then!

less than 24 hrs...eek!

Just a quickie to let you know we had a great day today delving into characters, letting Betty strut her stuff and bringing it all together after working out staging yest.  great to have the whole team together and focusing on getting this bad boy play together! i've realised from writing on this blog i've a tendency to use loads of exclamation marks so gonna go before they keep appearing!! oops! and again....

Absent:Tense

I've always been told the beatles wrote their best songs in 3 minuets. There is something that really feeds creativity about working fast, that I absoloutly love!

In two short rehearsals - 2 hours and 2 and a half - I've been working with the fantastic performers Hannah and Adam have assembled and we have put it all togeather.

Its such a luxery to get to work with a chorus of 9 actors - on longer projects budgeting just makes it impossible. But its a great number. and makes for great shapes on the stage.

this choral work is a style of performance that I feel is particuarlly theatrical and I find it so exciting. The ensemble movment, choral images and particuarlly the dynamic betwen the protagonist (or in our case protagonists!) and the chorus all facilitate telling the story in a way I find faciniating!

But this is where I also must let go of the project and allow the process in my absence, as Kenny has already done with the scripts. I'm really looking forward to hearing how things went, and what people think.

Good luck to all the groups tomorrow, and if you're watching have a fantastic time!

Robin xxxx

P:T minus 1 day 3 hours and 20 minutes...

Excellent day today. Rehearsed at the FH Space in Forest Hill (highly recommended).

Had the full cast for the first time and we now have a piece! Hoorah! It's looking good and everyone's worked really hard. We're very excited about tomorrow and seeing the audience reaction. Also, the play now has an official title (always helpful!): "Swabs".

Looking forward to tomorrow!

See you then,

Adam x
Box of Tricks

Best of this week's theatre blogs is ... this one!

We're thrilled to see this blog get a mention in Whatsonstage.com's Best Of This Week's Theatre Blogs feature!

Kenny's post about his writing ritual particularly caught their eye. Nice one Kenny.

If you haven't already, make sure you book a ticket to see where Kenny's writing ritual got him as his work is performed as part of Present : Tense this Sunday night at Southwark Playhouse.

Present : Tense / Thirteen
Sunday 22 November 2009 // 8:00pm
Southwark Playhouse // Shipwright Yard (Corner Tooley St. & Bermondsey St.) // London // SE1 2TF
Tickets // £10 // 020 7407 0234 or www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk

twins, sci-fi and singing

hi...

so i've not blogged since monday and a lot has happened in that time for our group...

adam came up with a cracking script (phew!) which has now been edited and re-edited to include twins (played by 2 actors who amazingly look pretty similar - the audience will hopefully go with the identical idea!), another character called Tab, who I hauled Hasan Dixon in for at 12.30 am this morning - he has dedicated his time until the show so generously as has Paul and we got a reading in with the other actor Chris Harper at about 7pm tonight...has been a long day but feel like we've made a lot of progress at clearing up the narrative (making it work for Paul's character Dan this morning was a bit like solving a sci-fi thriller - from what I've heard!

Having Betty in rehearsals was just brilliant (could listen to her all day)...really wanted her to be free to try out things (as after seeing her in the gig last night was blown away by her voice and how natural on stage she is) and she's gone with that - experimenting with guitar, xylophone and she's bringing her mini keyboard tomo...brilliant!

Saw the stage at Southwark and think can really make use of that too and the layout of audience....it's another direct address (think works best) which I happen to keep working on and love.

Have bashed out objectives with Hasan and Paul so clear all the way through for them what they want and who talking to - always a toughie in monologues.

A lot of lines for them all to learn but written with quite a strong rhythm which actually should make it easier - I hope!

Am excited to go into rehearsals tomorrow and see what else we find with Betty underscoring and making sounds!

Looking forward to seeing the other pieces too...a cast of 9...wow that's ambitious but brilliant!

x

From the page to the stage...

Excellent rehearsal with the cast at the Actors' Centre this morning. Hannah and I are really pleased with progress so far.

The cast threw themselves into the process; generous and creative from the off. Our (as yet!) unnamed piece is taking shape and Robin is really bringing Kenny's words to life. Looking forward to bringing it all together and seeing the final product...

The full cast is: Matt Bloxham, Bronya Deutsch, Tunji Falana, Chameli Meir, Rhoda Offori-Attah, Michael Quartey, Jai Rajani, Natasha James, Abi Hood.

Meanwhile, our sound designer, Chris James, is playing around with some potential music. Interested to hear what he comes up with.

Next rehearsal is on Saturday, so actors have tomorrow to get off book. Loads of time!

Over and out for now,

Adam x
Box of Tricks

 

 

Thursday afternoon

Just back from visiting a rehearsal. Terrific.

New character Tab is a keeper in the hands of Hasan Dixon.

Fantastic to have Betty "noodling" (her word) with instruments while the actors worked on text - added whole new layers.

Slipped out leaving it in their capable hands...

Thursday Morning

So since last I post, the biscuits are gone, the cigarettes have been replenished, the ashtray emptied a few times and more importantly I managed to write something that resembles a script...

It's been really interesting trying to write for this piece knowing that Robin will be incorporating movement (and not just in the walk stage left sense) to the story. I ended up leaving the text unallocated, with choral sections intermixed with three linear narratives- sounds complicated - hopefully in my three day absence from rehearsals Hannah and Adam have solved this.

All very exciting, looking forward to rehearsal on Saturday where I will get to see what's been going on.

I take full blame for the cast of nine idea.

I also take up Mr Grieve's depressing music challenge and raise him Nick Drake - Riverman (see Monday Morning entry and comments if this makes no sense)

Hope all the other teams are getting on well.

I'm off to listen to Betty on Myspace.

Ken x

From the dead of night...

...a brief hello.

A breathless day. In which we decided to split twins Dan and Andy between two actors rather than Paul playing both. Welcome to the fold the wonderful (Paul Jellis-look-a-like) Chris Harper.

And in which new character Tab has dangled on a thread.

And which saw several stages of script revision culminating in a very impromptu read-thru that began shortly after 11pm in a mercifully quiet pub near King's Cross station.

After which, some more revisions, and now at nearly 3am I've emailed out the new, maybe-sort-of-final draft.

From tomorrow morning it's in rehearsal. I will stand on the shore and watch it sail away.

Apparently Betty's gig was great. Wish I'd been.

Night!

A x

And so it begins....

So it's Hannah here from Box of Tricks, hello!

We've survived the first rehearsal this morning with one third of our cast ( I'm not quite sure who thought using 9 actors would be a good idea...) and we're all really happy and champing at the bit for tomorrow's session with the full ensemble.

 It seems depriving Kenny of sleep for 2 days results in some exciting writing, hooray!

The Spit Of Me

So.... I wrote - in a kind of splurge - a draft on Monday, finished and sent it about 2.30am. Then Tuesday was consumed with other work. Last night, after a performance of two short plays I'd written and two others I'd directed (don't get the wrong idea.... if only all weeks were like this!), Paul, Mel and I met at about 10pm. 

The first draft was essentially a dual monologue shared by two identical twins called Dan and Andy, both to be played by Paul. This was interspersed with music and singing from Betty. For various reasons both artistic and pragmatic the team resolved that Sunday's piece will have at least one more actor (and therefore at least one more character) who has a story-line that in some way intertwines or parallels that of Dan and Andy. The second task I've been set is to integrate Betty in more and new ways.

This is today's work. I've made a decent start I think. A new character called Tab is born and speaking. I've also gone back to Betty's music (http://www.myspace.com/iambettysteeles) and listened repeatedly. For inspiration, and also because it's great. I liked her work when I first heard it a week or so ago but I'm liking it more and more. I'd call myself a fan in fact. Sadly I'm blatantly gonna be too busy with script writing to go see her gig tonight. After all, this play starts rehearsing at 10am tomorrow.

This blog is clearly an outlet for procrastination and I need to write the next bit. After some more tea, that is.

Oh, by the way: the title of the post is the current title of the play. But the title changes every few hours, so don't put too much by that.

Adam x

Apologies for the latecomers

So, after a few technical hitches and a touch of inertia, DryWrite are finally blogging.  Hello.

This process is particularly tough for Phoebe and I, because we have no particular pattern for where our ideas come from.  Sometimes they appear in a heartbeat, but sometimes they take months to crystallise.  We can start with a kernel of an idea, or a question, which we mull around for absolutely ages before it becomes an event.  Or (occasionally), we think of something fantastically fun and theatrical we'd love to do, but have no idea how to make it relevant or provocative to an audience/playwrights/anybody at all.

This subject is a huge challenge because there's so much - so many implications, so many possibilities.  We're interested in Doubt.  We like the idea of how a law can transform the mindset of a nation.  There are all kinds of questions it raises in terms of 'innocent until proven guilty' or the reverse.  Loads.  There's just loads. 

We've been talking about young people who commit misdemeanors when they're young.  Many of us have done it.  What if their crimes are never forgotten - never forgiven? We have talked about, among a dozen other things, re-launching our 'Guilty' idea - which essentially asks the question, 'Is breaking the law ever justified?'.  It's a philosophical question as well as a practical one.  That could work.  I think we both want to do something new though.

Apparently secondary school students are taught 'Citizenship' these days.  Wonder what that entails. 

Phoebe and I went for dinner with our friends Tim Price and Joel Horwood last night.  The boys are both brilliant playwrights and have fantastic minds for what would make a great play.  They came up with at least three wicked ideas, and we were tempted to just ask a few writers to write short plays for us on those themes.  But I think we know in our hearts that that wouldn't be the right thing to do.  There's no time to get it right, we'd be crowbarring our vision onto unsuspecting writers, the brief would be an unspecific, generalised straightjacket.  In our work, the more specific the brief, the more liberating for the playwright, I think.

Not got much time though, so we're going to have to think of something.

Update

Somehow it appears to be Wednesday. I know, it's baffling.

Adam turned in a great first draft on Tuesday morning and I met up with him and Mel to discuss it last night. And so poor Adam now has to go away and beat his baby. I think we're expecting some more characters and possibly a whole new plot line before we start rehearsals tomorrow. Adam, we salute you.

Betty is off rehearsing for her gig tonight which we are awaiting with great anticipation (not least her French-themed costume). We'll be there for moral support (possibly without Adam depending on how much his brain hurts). If you fancy coming it's at The Cross Kings, 126 York Way (Kings Cross) at 8.30.

future:tense

Miraculously Kenny has already emailed over a half finished piece of writing! Those biscuits and cigarettes have obviously paid off...

I perform most evenings, but it's supposed to be my show off today. However, I've been in the theatre as lots of our cast are sick, not performing my usual parts, but filling in bits in scenes, and alternately highlighting and scribbling on Kenny's writing in my gaps in-between.

Its exciting, and already images and a physical language are suggesting them selves... The big questions remain, of course, on how they might transfer into the space when we get into rehearsals Wednesday Thursday and Saturday - as there is really no way of knowing - and this always leaves me slightly terrified...

but that’s what I love about this work - you meticulously prep your ideas and proposals, then from the moment you start working with others you fly by the seat of your pants... and perhaps some of it will stick?

now for some well earned sleep - early start to organize rehearsal space in the morning!

Robin x

Questions for everyone

Here are some things I'm curious to know, if anyone has found / finds any answers...

...when did the practice of taking DNA samples of ANYONE arrested, regardless of whether charged / convicted, begin?

...did this practice ALWAYS extend to teenagers and children, or was that brought in at a certain time?

...is there an age below which a child is too young to be DNA sampled by police? I think even 10 yr olds are having it done to them?

Team introduction and article link

Hi this is Paul - I'm one of the individual artists. I quickly wanted to introduce my fantastic team who are: Mel Hillyard (Director), Adam Barnard (Writer) and Betty Steeles (Singer/Songwriter).

I'm now in the weird position of having got a team together and then having to wait for a script which I have essentially already cast myself in (sorry Adam, sorry Mel). This is clearly the way forward and I will endeavour to cast myself as much as possible in future.

Here is a link for various DNA database stories on the Guardian website: http://browse.guardian.co.uk/search?search=dna+database&sitesearch-radio=guardian&go-guardian=Search

Also, a thought: is it worth trying to get an expert to join the blog to ask any technical/legal/precedent questions?

buzzing...

Hi I'm Mel the director of on of these (hopefully) magical pieces!I'm working with Adam, Betty and Paul and very excited to get started.

After our fast food discussion of DNA samples (at which point Adam aptly pulled a hair out of his eye!) we all went our separate ways, my mind buzzing with strings of letters and musing over the powers that control us...didn't sleep a wink but that's usual for me as a director when start a project...

hey ho, lots of coffee today!

Today is filled with work and waiting for Adam to come up from underground at some point tomorrow, hopefully with some kind of words on a page too! nerve racking but very exciting....especially for me because these are all new collaborators and secondly because we have a jazz singer in the mix - Betty.

Similarly to Paul, I'm really keen to bridge the gap between live music gigs and theatre as they are far too separate for my liking....will be an interesting venture and can't wait to get in the rehearsal room.

Here we go...

Massively excited about being part of Present : Tense / Thirteen! Hannah and I are co-directing a piece for Box of Tricks.

After the meeting last night, we had a catch-up in the pub down the road to discuss our ideas. We've decided to fuse text and movement - uniting playwright Kenny Emson and movement director Robin Guiver - to respond to the news story: "DNA of innocent still to be retained for six years".

Some exciting initial ideas. Watch this space!

The discovery of the helix-shaped DNA by Crick and Watson was viewed by artist Salvador Dali as evidence of the intelligent design of life and one of the inspirations for his 1963 painting Galacidalacidesoxyribonucleicacid.
 

Present:Tension

right - I've worked with (Box of Tricks) Hannah and Adam before - and Kenny too - and really enjoyed the process, so when they asked me to get involved I presumed I'd look at the script, and based on what Kenny writes I'd be doing some character work with actors physicallity, a little bit of choriography, and maybe some fight work if I'm lucky - generally keeping the space alive

or so I thought...

after meeting last night to discuss, it seems that the proposal of working method is much more of a colaboration between Kenny and I than I had first anticipated - his fantastic wrting providing narative for us to work with, and my own input being much more like a writer of movment - using space as a story telling tool, colaborating in a way we've never really worked togeather before... with Hannah and Adam's expert eyes bringing the whole togeather as directors.

I'm very excited.

so we're contacting cast members this morning, the research has begun.

more later xxxx

Robin Guiver

Monday Morning

Hi. I’m Kenny and I will be writing for the Box of Tricks Present Tense piece. The piece will see the creative team from Box of Tricks collaborating with the incredible Robin Guiver, so basically I need to write something good! 

I thought I’d share with you my usual ritual of starting to write so you can see the madness and OCD that consumes me

 

Wake up panicking.

Smoke.

Empty ashtray (feel better now that it is clean)

Shower

Do washing up (generously do housemates washing up as it will only distract me if I leave it)

Move piles of paper around room to create an air of tidiness

Drink tea (Tea is the bringer of intelligence and good writing)

Go to Costcutter, buy copious amounts of biscuits and cigarettes (no need to leave the house again)

Drink more tea.

Listen to uplifting music (jokes, I own literally the most depressing collection of music)

Start home tutorial on DNA profiling...

Back from the pub

Hello. I'm Adam. I'm writing one of this week's plays. Hopefully.

Mainly, over the last few years, I've been a director. Playwriting is a more recent escapade. It feels new. Like when, as a student, I dyed my hair blue, but kept forgetting I'd done so, and was startled every time I caught my reflection.

My co-conspirators are an actor called Paul, a singer / songwriter called Betty and a director called Mel.

I like artistic production to involve parameters. P:T 13 offers plenty. Firstly, we've to produce a 20 minute piece of theatre, to be performed at Southwark Playhouse one week from now. Secondly, this piece must take as its starting point the news that innocent teenagers' DNA is being stored for 6 years. Thirdly, and unique to my group, my play must specifically incorporate Paul (the actor) and Betty, who sings, plays instruments and writes songs. How we incorporate Betty is one of many interesting things to fathom in the coming days.

After voting on the story in the pub with the other groups, my lot slipped away to a burger bar to mull DNA over junk food. We talked ethics, identity, authority, trust, freedom, ownership, science... But will this be an 'issues' play? How news-driven will it feel? Will it 'take a side'? No idea yet. For now, sleep beckons...

And the Present : Tense / Thirteen topic is...

The Present : Tense / Thirteen artists assembled upstairs at The Crown and Two Chairmen in Soho this evening to rip through a pile of newsprint and select the most important news story of the moment.

And the story they chose was:

DNA of innocent to be retained for six years

The artists now have just seven days to create a response to this story before their work is performed live at Southwark Playhouse next Sunday 22 November 2009 at 8pm.

The artists will be posting news of their progress right here on the blog throughout the week so check back for updates and be sure to book your tickets for Sunday before they're gone.

P:T/13 Artists' biogs

HANNAH TYRRELL-PINDER (Artistic Director, Box of Tricks)
Hannah Tyrrell-Pinder is Joint Artistic Director of Box of Tricks She trained as a director at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. She is an associate member of Old Vic New Voices and a Young Vic Genesis Director. For Box of Tricks her credits include: The Captain of the School Football Team (Hotbed and Latitude festivals), Whispering Happiness (Tristan Bates Theatre), Word:Play 2 (Theatre503), Rural and A Hole in the Fence (White Bear Theatre), Word:Play (Union Theatre).

ADAM QUAYLE (Artistic Director, Box of Tricks)
Adam Quayle is Joint Artistic Director of Box of Tricks. He was a finalist for Channel 4's Theatre Director Scheme in 2007 as well as Old Vic New Voices 24 hour Plays in 2008. He trained as a theatre director at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and has worked exclusively in new writing since graduating. For Box of Tricks his credits include Streetlights and Shadows, A Hole in The Fence and Beyond Omarska (White Bear) Word:Play 2 (Theatre 503) Word:Play (Union Theatre). He is an associate member of Old Vic New Voices and a Young Vic Genesis Director.

KENNETH EMSON (Playwright and Associate Director, Box of Tricks)
Kenneth Emson is a graduate of the prestigious Goldsmiths’ Writing for Performance MA. Last year, he was selected as one of seven playwrights for Old Vic New Voices’ 24 Hour Plays and had work première at the Hotbed Festival (Cambridge) and Hotink Festival (New York). Kenneth was a recent member of the Royal Court’s invitation-only Writers’ Programme and has worked with Paines Plough and The National Theatre Studio on invitation-only workshops. He has received funding from the Peggy Ramsay Foundation and the Arts Council.

ROBIN GUIVER (Movement Director)
Previous work as a movement coach includes ‘A Hole In The Fence’ and ‘Whispering Happiness’ for Box of Tricks, and ‘Feathers In The Snow’ for the National Theatre’s Education Department. As a creator and performer Robin has worked in physical and devised theatre in Morocco, Québec, New York and Spain, as well as the UK. He can currently be seen performing the Heart of the horses Joey and Topthorn as well as playing the human character Geordie in the National Theatre’s Warhorse, at the New London theatre.

PAUL JELLIS (Actor/Producer)
Paul trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Previous acting credits for nabokov include Bedtime for Bastards and Nikolina. Other credits include The Custom of the Country (White Bear), Moll Flanders (Southwark Playhouse), David Copperfield (County Hall) and Anthropology for Latitude Festival, which he also produced. Paul is creative producer of The nabokov Arts Club.

ADAM BARNARD (Playwright)
Adam Barnard has worked mainly as a theatre director over the last decade; this year he has wandered into the playwright's pen. He is currently writing his first commissioned play, Disconnected, for Vienna's English Theatre. Two of his short plays form part of the WriteBites night at RADA, Tuesday November 17. He is also writer / director of a new project, Troubled, with Company of Angels, exploring the lives of Britain's most violent teenagers. As a director, his work has been seen in London, across the UK and in Europe. Recent directing highlights include Ted Hughes's lost play Vasco at the Orange Tree, Torben Betts's new play Lie of the Land at Arcola, four new plays including Face Value by Dawn King at Stephen Joseph, Scarborough, and The Map Maker's Sorrow by Chris Lee in Copenhagen. Until 2005 he was artistic director of Activated Image. Occasionally he's also a journalist, mainly for The Times.

MEL HILLYARD (Director)
Training: Rose Bruford College (MA), University of Berkeley, California and the University of Kent (MDrama). As director: WriteBites for Eyebrow Productions (8 new short plays, RADA Theatre Bar), Southgate by Will Hammond (radio play for 503/Urban Scrawl), His Face her Face by Ben Cooper and Three Is Company by Erin McMahon (King's Head Theatre), Grey Days and Loose Ends (Edinburgh Festival), Imposition (Rose), Pillars of Society (Lumley Studio), Cloud Tectonics and Play (Durham Studio Theatre, Berkeley). As assistant: The Spanish Tragedy (Arcola Theatre), Me and My Girl(London Palladium), Cherry Docs and The Shadowmaster (King's Head), The Winter's Tale (Courtyard), Helen of Troy and The Jungle Book with Phil Willmott at the Scoop. Mel is currently Associate Director with Nabokov on Joel Horwood's play Is Everyone OK? on its UK tour of festivals and theatres.

BETTY STEELES (Singer / Songwriter)
By her own admission, it’s bludy difficult to sum up the personality that is Betty Steeles but simply to describe her as a singer that adores melody and mixing words up to paint playful but rich and often uplifting stories, would belie the complexities that linger within the day dream world that the 28 year old North Londoner occupies. Her music is arguably easier to define and is in essence ‘friendly pop’ comprising of songs that approach without fear, prejudice or pretense. Early comparisons have seen her likened to artists such as Jack Johnson, Sia, early Bjork and even the more random accessible moments of Coco Rosie. However, in truth Betty and her music would be more at home cycling in tandem through the cobbled Parisian streets of a Jean Phillip Jeunet film set.

DRYWRITE
Drywrite is a new writing theatre company inspired by the power of anonymity. We support writers to step out of their comfort zones: to experiment, to innovate and to play with subject, form and space. We believe that playwrights can often find themselves struggling to break out of a cycle of generating the same type of work time and again. We want to liberate them so that they can play, take risks and question and re-question their approach to writing in order to 'flex their literary muscles'. All our writers present their work anonymously - you'll know who has written for each event, but not which piece they have written. You'll see the work of established writers played out along side that of a first-timer and everything in between. Since our conception two years ago, we have worked with the Roundhouse, Hampstead Theatre, The Liverpool Everyman, and York Theatre Royal, each time developing highly unique and original probing theatrical experiments. We are proud to have worked with over eighty playwrights including Simon Stephens, Joe Penhall, Chloe Moss, Jack Thorne, Che Walker, Mike Bartlett and Terry Johnson. Our challenges to writers continue from strength to strength.

SARAH SOLEMANI (Playwright)
Biog to follow

HANNAH MACOY (Director)
Biog to follow

KATE TEMPEST (Poet)
Biog to follow

Stellar line-up for Present : Tense / Thirteen

We've got a seriously mouth-watering selection of artists lined-up to tackle the toughest creative challenge in town in Present : Tense / Thirteen.

Two of our favourite companies plus two groups of individual collaborators are preparing to create multi-disciplinary responses to the most important news story of the moment in just seven days.

You know the score ... the artists meet tonight to decide on the hottest topic on the news agenda. They then have just one week to create a response before it is performed live at Southwark Playhouse next Sunday 22 November at 8pm. And here's who taking up the gauntlet:

DRYWRITE
One of the most inovative and exciting companies around

BOX OF TRICKS
Top notch new writing company whose current production Letting In Air is playing at The Old Red Lion (***** Whatsonstage)

PAUL JELLIS
Actor, producer, and all round creative whizz kid

SARAH SOLEMANI
Playwright, actor, comedienne and regular contributor to The New Statesman

All four will be working with a group of collaborators from different disciplines to create completely unique and thrillingly immediate work in response to the topic.

You can follow their progress right here on the PT blog throughout the week, where the artists will be posting daily updates, and on Facebook and Twitter. Most importantly, you can buy tickets here.

Present : Tense / Thirteen
Sunday 22 November 2009 // 8:00pm
Southwark Playhouse // Shipwright Yard (Corner Tooley St. & Bermondsey St.) // London // SE1 2TF
Tickets // £10 // 020 7407 0234 or www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk