WriteBites 6

Thursday 1st – Friday 2nd December 2011

Upstairs at The Bell
50 Middlesex Street, E1

7:30pm
Tickets: £7 (£5 concessions), available on the door ONLY

Two fabulous evenings of new writing and live music performed in the quirky surroundings of a Victorian pub.

With a twist on the traditional format, this latest event in the WriteBites series will see all our short plays taking inspiration from music, in one way or another.

The Human Beings by Terri-Ann Brumby
Directed by Bethany Pitts
Performed by Pete Leafe, Alexis Leighton and Tessa Longbottom 

Radio Silence by Lola Stephenson
Directed by Sophie Larsmon
Performed by Sarah-Jane Scott and Richard Shanks 

Missing the War by Richard Maxted
Directed by Alex Brown
Performed by Jethro Skinner and Max Saunders-Singer 

I Bet You… by Amy Abrahams
Directed by Mel Hillyard
Performed by Sarah-Jane Scott and Paul Westwood 

With live music from Milly Oldfield, Alistair Mackenzie and Emma Garrett

COLLISION

Premiering at Latitude Festival:

Pandora’s Playground
Friday 13th July 2012 – 12pm and 7pm
Saturday 14th July 2012 –  3:30pm

Bestival
Amphitheatre, Ambient Woods:

Saturday 8th September 2012 – 11:30am
Sunday 9th September 2012 – 1:15pm
More details to follow soon..

Four darkly funny and thought-provoking new short plays all set on 23 November 2009 – the day when particles first smashed together at the Large Hadron Collider. One event. Several lives. The strange and mundane brought together. The day when the particulars of particles, the nonsense of neutrons and the problem with protons all came to a head in one big bang.

Directed by Nicola Samer
Writers: Tom Morton-Smith, Jamie Griffiths, Silva Semerciyan, Amy Abrahams
Cast: Martin Allanson, Abigail Andjel, Harry Bradshaw, Tom Campbell, Karen Cogan, Samuel Collings, Antonia Kinlay, Timothy Knightley, Nina Millns, Rose O’Loughlin, Matthew Raymond
Designers: Natalie Moggridge, Guy Burnett
Sound Designer: Steven Mayo

More about our writers:

TOM MORTON-SMITH
Plays include: Salt Meets Wound (Theatre503); In Doggerland (Box of Tricks/Theatre503, LabFest); Venison (Yellowtale Theatre Company); Blunderbuss (The Theatre, Chipping Norton); Uncertainty (Latitude Festival/Sincera); The Hygiene Hypothesis (Latitude Festival/Sincera). Radio plays include: Man In Black: Flesh (BBC). Short plays and rehearsed readings have appeared at Soho Theatre, Old Vic, Royal Court, Shakespeare’s Globe, Liverpool Everyman and Hampstead Theatre. Writer in Residence at Paines Plough 2007/08. Currently under commission to the Royal Shakespeare Company.

JAMIE GRIFFITHS
Jamie used to be a professional actor until he got  bored of constant haircuts and headshots and decided to become a writer instead. His first full-length play Reunion was developed by ATTIC Theatre Company and his first short Inherited Risk Factors was produced by Eyebrow Productions as part of a WriteBites in July 2011. He is delighted to be working with Eyebrow once again.

SILVA SEMERCIYAN
Silva is an American playwright now based in Bristol.  Her plays include Another Man’s Son, (winner of the William Saroyan Prize for Playwriting) and I and the Village (shortlisted for the 2011 Bruntwood Prize).  In November 2012, her play Stalemate will be produced by Golden Thread Productions as part of the ReOrient Festival in San Francisco.  She holds an MPhil (B) in Playwriting from the University of Birmingham and currently belongs to the Writers’ Studio Group at the Royal Court Theatre.

AMY ABRAHAMS
Amy works as a journalist and is the Deputy Chief Sub Editor at GLAMOUR magazine. Her short plays have been produced at RADA, Theatre503, the BAC, WriteBites and Fishtank Festival. Collision will be her festival debut as a writer. She studied English and Drama at Royal Holloway, University of London, and has a postgraduate diploma in magazine journalism from City University. Amy is a graduate of the Royal Court Young Writers’ Programme. Producing credits for Eyebrow include: Hard Shoulders by James Graham (Latitude 2011); In An Instant (Latitude 2010; Theatre503); Crazy For You (London Palladium) and Me And My Girl (London Palladium).

Hard Shoulders at Latitude Festival

A new play written by James Graham and composed by Joseph Atkins
Directed by Mel Hillyard
Performed by Matthew Raymond, Kate O’Flynn, Gary Albert Hughes and Lorna Marie Moore
Designed by Ruth Hall
Stage Managed by Helen Stone

3pm, Sunday 17 July 2011
Outdoor Theatre in the Faraway Forest
Latitude Festival 2011

Eyebrow Productions presents Hard Shoulders, a new play by award-winning playwright James Graham (The Whisky Taster, Bush Theatre; The Man, Finborough; Tory Boyz, Soho Theatre), written in collaboration with composer Joseph Atkins (BBC4; BBC2; Musical Director of Me and Juliet, Finborough), creating an exciting theatrical experience with its own musical score.

“Me and you, we bounce up and down all around the country…
Like a, like a pinball in one of those machines…
But every now and again, every now and again you hit another pinball and it’s… brilliant.
And I’m glad I hit you. At Scotch Corner. Where no one has ever fallen in love. But. I did.”

WriteBites 5

WriteBites Upstairs at The Bell
Tuesday 5th and Wednesday 6th July 2011
7:30pm
Tickets: £7 (£5 concessions), available on the door only

An evening of new writing and live music performed in the quirky surroundings of a Victorian pub.

INHERITED RISK FACTORS
Written by Jamie Griffiths
Directed by Alex Thorpe
Performed by Laurence Dobiesz and Robin Kingsland

WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE
Written by Amy Abrahams
Directed by Jules Tipton
Performed by Tori Pearson and Charlotte Worthing

IS MY SADNESS CRASHING CARS?
Written by Brad Birch
Directed by Emily Kempson
Performed by Max Wilson and Peter Stickney

PAGE FOURTEEN
Written by Laura Stevens
Directed by Nicola Samer
Performed by Juliet Oldfield and John Pickard

LabFest at Theatre503

LabFest: Even Stillness Breathes Softly Against A Brick Wall

Written by Brad Birch
Directed by Mel Hillyard for Eyebrow Productions

20 – 22 June 2011

“I believe in this. I believe in here. Me and you.”

Everyday life, is it nothing but a series of creeping, soul destroying disillusionments and compromises? This young couple start to think so, falling further and further into a lyrical, wild and emotional world of their own, but their escape could prove much more dangerous than the conformity they’ve rejected.

Brad Birch is a graduate of the Royal Court Young Writers Supergroup and Sherman Cymru’s Advanced Writers Group.

Box Office:
020 7978 7040
www.theatre503.com

WriteBites 4

Date:  Tuesday 15 and Wednesday 16 March 2011
Venue:  Upstairs at The Bell
50 Middlesex Street, London, E1 7EX

http://www.thebellpub.co.uk/

7:30pm
Tickets:  £7 (£5 concessions)
Only available on the door

Fishtank Festival

Fishtank Festival on Sunday 29 November 2010
The Rag Factory, London E1

In An Instant

Venue: Theatre503
Date: 23 – 29 August 2010

It was a day like any other and then, in an instant…

Fresh from their success at Latitude Festival, Eyebrow Productions brings you an eveningof captivating short plays about a moment when everything changed, written by James Graham, Matthew Dunster, Adam Barnard, Kenneth Emson, Emma Jowett, Michael Ross, John Sheerman and Amy Abrahams and directed by Mel Hillyard, John Sheerman and Jules Tipton.

In An Instant

Venue: Latitude Festival
Date: 17 – 18 July 2010
4pm at the Outdoor Theatre

He should have walked away.  She should have stayed indoors. A chance encounter.  A sudden impact.  A moment when everything changed.  Come and witness these life-changing experience… Because nothing stays the same forever.

WriteBites 3

Venue: RADA
Date: June 2010