PORCELAIN by MARGARET PERRY
December 19, 2017
Rehearsed Reading Tristan Bates Theatre
Tipperary, 1895. Bridget Cleary's not feeling quite herself. London, 2017. Hat's got a great life. But she's dying to get out of her own skin.
Porcelain explores the folk myth of the changeling to tell a modern story about depression and female identity.
ELSIE THATCHWICK by SKYE LOURIE - COMING SOON
What d’ye wannae go tae England for? It’s full o’ English people” “To find my Da ya fanny.”
It's 1997, Diana is dead and now too, is Elsie's nan, but she's just found out her Da might not be. HOW HAS NO ONE EVER THOUGHT TO MENTION THIS BEFORE? Armed only with an address and a pack of jammy dodgers Elsie sets out on an epic journey to find the man that gave her life! But the question is, how’s she gonnae get to *spit* ENGLAND? First she tries her English teacher Mr Gibby, but he’s not left Scotland since 1987. Not a lot of help. How about her best friend Iona? She just wants to smoke some fags and get dizzy on the swings. And maybe Danny the jakey is right, maybe there’s a reason her maw does’nae want her to meet him. Undeterred she boards the mega bus. About eight hours and twenty bampots later she’s finally there. She’s made it. But he is’nae the hero she’d imagined.. not the too cool for school rock star, poet that did’nae have time for her. He’s a small man in a big wheelchair and he cannae speak. Turns out Elsie’s adventure has only just started. Getting to Manchester is small fry compared to getting to know and care for her severely disabled Dad.
EGG by FLORENCE KEITH ROACH -SIN CLUB EDINBURGH FESTIVAL
“They say that most crimes are performed by sexually frustrated men on a largely sugar based diet.
I eat a lot of MAOMS"
A dark comedy about female friendship, fertility and freaking out.
“Honest, smashing…a rare treat,” (The Evening Standard)
"The genius of her work is simmering away; in a few years your ticket stub will be the kudos you saw her concoction of sex, drugs and lonely disco here first.” - ★★★★★- Broadway Baby
“Refreshingly unabashed… a serious and heartfelt work…playwright Florence Keith-Roach is a rising star… her fellow actor, Amani Zardoe, is clearly one to watch too.”- Fringe Guru
“Excellent, a truly great depiction of friendship,” - Female Arts Magazine
“Wonderfully-written: unselfconscious, witty, sharp and perceptive,”- ★★★★★ Adelaide University Union
Shorts and Rehearsed Readings
HAIRBRUSH, CACTUS, CHINA CAT ICARUS – MARGARET PERRY — (SHORT) MINIATUARIST, THE ARCOLA
ICARUS – MARGARET PERRY — (SHORT) PINT SIZED PRODUCTIONS, THE BUNKER
TURF – MARGARET PERRY — (SHORT) THEATRE RENEGADE, SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE
CUM AND GO – HENRY ASHE — (SHORT) OLD RED LION
BEVAN’SBABY – ROSIE DASTGIR — (READING) ARCOLA
GUARDS – ANTHONY TEAGUE — THE ETCETERA THEATRE
NO KISSING – MERLIN WARD — (EXTRACT) GREENWICH THEATRE
ADAM AND EVE – MIKHAIL BULGAKOV — FOR RUSSIA WITH LOVE, THEATRE DELICATESSEN