Theatre

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SILKWORKS 14-17 July 2010 Southwark Playhouse BOOKING NOW OPEN! A four day festival of plays and creative arts from East London, curated by Fin Kennedy and Luke Kernaghan for Mulberry Theatre Company. Includes revivals of Edinburgh hits Mehndi Night, The Unravelling and the world premiere of The Urban Girl's Guide To Camping. Click on image for more.

 

The Unravelling Lessons in living. An east London fabric shop. A mother challenges her daughters to weave her the greatest tale. Their prize? The future. The third groundbreaking collaboration between playwright Fin Kennedy and the girls of Mulberry School. The Unravelling won a Scotsman Fringe First at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Click on image for more.

 

How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found You are what people think. Award-winning metaphysical thriller following one man's desperate attempts to buck the system, and asking what really makes us who we are in the 21st century. How To Disappear won the 38th Arts Council John Whiting Award for New Theatre Writing and a 2007 Peter Brook Award. It enjoyed a sell-out world premiere at Sheffield Crucible in 2007, and is now being produced around the world. Its US premiere took place at PCS in Portland, Oregon in Jan 2009. Click on image for more.

 

Locked In Dere's a bomb in dis manor an it's gonna explode. Critically-acclaimed hip hop drama set in an East London pirate station. Locked In is a powerful three- hander, developed in direct contact with young people. It was produced by Half Moon Young People's Theatre in 2006 and 2008, touring nationally. Click on image for more.

 

Stolen Secrets East London is built on secrets ... From the hearts of London's East End, a fistful of urban confessions. Playwright Fin Kennedy and the girls of Mulberry School unmask a city you thought you knew. Stolen Secrets had its world premiere at Venue 45 as part of the 2008 Edinbrugh Fringe Festival. Click on image for more.

 

Unstated You have to state it. Out loud. For the record. An extraordinary live multimedia installation about UK immigration and asylum. The Red Room Theatre Company take over Southwark Playhouse and turn it into an Immigration Removal Centre. Premiered July 2008. Click on image for more.

 

We Are Shadows Turn your face to the sun, and the shadows fall behind you. Nine lives, nine tales and an unforeseen chain of events. A series of monologues for young people, produced by Half Moon Young People's Theatre in autumn 2007. Click on image for more.

 

Mehndi Night Life is a samosa. You are cordially invited to a Bangladeshi mehndi party, to bless Nilufa Begum’s wedding. Samosas, chai and long-forgotten secrets will be served. An extraordinary collaboration with the Bengali young women from Mulberry School, E1. Mehndi Night had its world premiere at Venue 45 as part of the 2007 Edinbrugh Fringe Festival. Click on image for more.

 

 

Protection Do you ever wonder to yourself just what the hell we think we're doing? Tough political play about our crumbling social fabric and the people who have to pick up the pieces. PROTECTION was the first UK stage play about a team of inner city social workers. It was first produced at Soho Theatre in 2003, and subsequently by Mountview Theatre School and Arts Ed School of Acting, summer 2005. Click on image for more.

 

East End Tales Sleep in the day Come out at night A Half Moon Theatre Scriptworks projects with Year 10 Bengali girls from Mulberry School. The script was chosen for publication in Methuen Drama's 2008 anthology Six Ensemble Plays for Young Actors. Click on image for more.

 

Blitz Spirit They’d be scattered about, like torn-up teddy bears. A monologue written for I CONFESS at Hoxton Hall exposing a darker reality endured by those who lived through the London blitz. Click on image for more.

 

B Minor Be minor. See nothing. Be unimportant. Ten minute play about terrorism written in free verse. Originally commissioned by The Red Room Theatre Company in 2003. It is my most performed play. Click on image for more.

 

In Development... A sneak preview of plays I have in development. Click on image for more...