Player Playwrights coming events
Monday, 13 April 7.30pm - Playwright Jane Berthoud discusses her upcoming prison project
Help Jane Berthoud formulate the creative writing project she is taking into a women’s prison in May. The sessions in the prison will form part of a bigger course about Aristotle
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On the back of reading a short version of Antigone, the group will discuss the significance of this great play today and think of possible modern versions of the story (eg a woman is convicted for shoplifting, which she did to feed her family.)
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Jane Berthoud is BAFTA winning TV & Radio Comedy Producer. 2009-2015 Head of BBC Radio Comedy. Now writing theatre plays. Jane hopes to turn this prison venture into a play at some point, somehow. Clean Break have shown interest.
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All events take place Upstairs@North London Tavern, Kilburn except the short play competition on 15 June
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Upcoming events:
​Monday 20 April, 7.30pm - INGRESS by Jane Fookes
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​Monday 27 April, 7.30pm - Cassandra Reversed by Jasmine King
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​Monday 4 May, 7.30pm - no event (Bank Holiday)
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​Monday 11 May, 7.30pm - Guest speaker Heather Jeffery, editor London Pub Theatres Magazine
Heather talks about potential venues for P-P members’ work: how you should go about approaching them, how different fringe venues operate and what different fringe venues are looking for and so forth.
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​Monday 18 May, 7.30pm - Dramatic Development in Playwriting led by Ninaz Khodaiji
Ninaz will lead a workshop on this subject. More details will be forthcoming.
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​Monday 25 May, 7.30pm - no event (Bank Holiday)
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​Monday 1 June , 7.30pm - JANE AIR by Phil O'Shea
JANE AIR is a one-woman comedy about a 45-year-old school dinner lady with rock and roll in her soul. Bored at work, ignored by her husband, and embarrassing her teenage daughter simply by existing, Jane Kirsty Little discovers air guitar— a way to fight back - and confront the demons of her past.
Phil O’Shea is a film and TV Screenwriter. ‘Jane Air’ is his second play. His first play, ‘Playing for England’ had a lunchtime run at the King’s Head Theatre
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​Monday 8 June, 7.30pm - MACINTOSH WOMEN by Doc Anderssen-Bloomfield
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​Monday 15 June, 7.30pm - SUMMER COMPETITION by THE JOURNEY (ZOOM)
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Monday 22 June, 7.30pm - DANCING TO THE SOUND OF CRUNCHING SNAILS by Joe Graham
Dancing to the Sound of Crunching Snails is a bittersweet comedy about families. It’s Boxing Day. Katy can’t relax without the sound of Strauss’ Blue Danube Waltz playing at full volume, which means Sam can’t concentrate on his solo game of Buckaroo. Sara, Katy’s sister
is a straight-talker, but she has gone behind Katy’s back to speak to Howard (their partly estranged father). With Howard about to arrive at any moment, Katy’s doing nibbles, Sara’s standing her ground, and Sam is trying to set up ‘Hungry Hippos’. And no-one knows just what
lies in store.
Joe Graham has had professional productions at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, and the Bristol Old Vic (among others) and was commissioned to write two new pantomimes for the Palace Theatre, Watford. His play, The Goldfish Bowl, was written in workshop with a group pf secondary school students for Sixth Sense Theatre Company and toured 40 schools. He has his own theatre company, Balancing Act, (www.balancingact.co.uk).
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​Monday 29 June, 7.30pm - COMMITTEE MEETING
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