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Sat 04 Nov 2023

York Theatre Royal’s New Plays Festival

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 7:00pm, 7:15pm Wed, 2:00pm Sat

Running Time 2 hours

Venue Studio, York Theatre Royal
De Grey House

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York Theatre Royal’s New Plays Festival

Sat 04 Nov 2023

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Sat 04 Nov 2023

Times

7:00pm, 7:15pm Wed, 2:00pm Sat

Running Time

2 hours

Venue

Studio, York Theatre Royal
De Grey House

Price

Pay What You Feel

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York Theatre Royal’s New Plays Festival

As a regional associate theatre of the RSC’s 37 Plays new playwriting project, we will be presenting a week of new writing and workshops. 37 Plays aimed to find the new stories of our nation and we will be presenting 3 of the selected 37 as script in hand readings. Alongside this we will be performing work-in-progress pieces from YTR’s artistic team, an evening of extracts from the various community based projects we ran as part of the project and practical insight workshops. This is an opportunity to hear the future voices and contemporary stories that reflect where and who we are today.

MONDAY 30 OCT 

Local Talent Local Plays

Adult Theatre Workshop present Local Talent Local Plays script in hand performances of extracts from plays written as part of York Theatre Royal’s partnership with the RSC’s 37 Plays project. The aim of the project was to engage our communities with playwriting to find the ‘Stories of our nation’. Our programme worked with writers both new and established through a variety of different groups with the aim of promoting and celebrating storytelling through playwriting. We asked for any plays that had been written as part of our programmes to be submitted to us and the extracts presented are from these plays.

Adult Theatre Workshop is our termly adult acting class, where the group focus on a different topic or aspect of performance each term. ATW are proud to present the work of our local and talented writers.

7pm.

 

New Writing Workshop – Creating Character

We will look at the how playwrights use exercises and ideas to develop character. Whether you’re an experienced writer, a student or just interested in the concept of creating characters this workshop will be for you. This session is open to writers of all levels of experience. This session will be led by playwright and York Theatre Royal’s Resident Artist Misha Duncan-Bary This session will be part of the York Theatre Royal’s new writing festival in partnership with the RSC and the 37 plays project. We are passionate about bringing opportunities to all peoples in our community, with this in mind we’re particularly encouraging participants from the global majority, LGBTQ, Disabled people and those under-represented within our community to attend.

Pen and paper will be provided but please feel free to bring you own writing equipment if preferred

7.15 – 9.15pm

Billiard room

 

TUESDAY 31 OCT  – Work-in-Progress Double Bill

Afternoon Tea By Misha Duncan-Barry

Three women Two Strangers One café What could possibly go wrong? Afternoon Tea follows the lives of three best friends in their mid 60’s. At a turning point juggling, romance, family, friendship and retirement. They ‘put the world to rights’, all while enjoying Afternoon Tea. That is until everything goes wrong. Come along and see how Age, friendship and the bonds between women is explored in this dramatic comedy.

This is a script in hand sharing of a new work in progress by playwright and York Theatre Royal resident artist Misha Duncan-Barry.

 

Candidates by Gus Gowland

In Candidates, Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing is transported to a modern-day college election as two hopeful candidates find themselves competing for the class presidency and end up winning much more than they bargained for.

This is a script in hand sharing of a new work in progress by writer and York Theatre Royal resident artist Gus Gowland.

7pm

 

WEDNESDAY 01 NOV 

The Bare Bones by Bridget Foreman

In 2012, the bones of a long-dead king are uncovered in a Leicester car park. Four hundred years earlier, the same king is buried in myth by a wildly successful play. The Bare Bones holds history to account, conjuring the riotous world of  Elizabethan theatre, the weary soldiers trudging home from Bosworth Field, and the quiet scrutiny of the forensic lab.

This commissioned play is a rehearsed reading of a future YTR Main House production.

7pm

 

So you want to write a musical? 

In this practical two-hour workshop, resident artist and award-winning musical theatre writer Gus Gowland (Mayflies) will share all the tricks and tools collected over years of writing (and re-writing), to help you take your first steps into writing your own musical masterpiece.

We’ll look at writing prompts to get rid of the dreaded blank page, and how to start building story, characters and songs. We’ll discover the patterns that great musicals follow and explore at how to create a song-plot for your musical.

(NOTE: Music notation and composition skills are not required for this workshop.)

7.15 – 9.15pm

Billiard room

 

THURSDAY 02 NOV 

The Stories You Want To Tell

Written by Kyra Women’s Project members

Script curated by Jules Risingham

The play was devised from a collaboration between Kyra Women’s Project, York Theatre Royal and Thunk-It Theatre. Originally presented as a film, this script-in-hand performance will give new light and life to the female led story. The play marks a moment in time where women of York came together and chose to create a beautiful story that will leave a legacy for others to take strength from. Following the journey from baby to butterfly, the play explores personal, fictional and collective narratives embracing the strength of individuality and connection.

Trigger warnings: Some mention of domestic violence, discussion of mental illnesses, discussion of physical ill health

7pm

 

FRIDAY 03 NOV 

Re: Jane Doe by Patty Kim Hamilton

Re: Jane Doe is a play about intimacy, consent, and our language around boundaries, assault, and healing. Examining the current state of discourse after #metoo, the text uses personal stories from a myriad of characters to highlight the universal experiences of negotiating needs and desires. One through-line (Jane Doe and John Doe) follows a woman after an assault, as she tries to communicate, experience and process her closest relationships and her own relationship to herself.

A rehearsed reading of one of the 37 Plays winners

Trigger warnings: Due to the nature of the show, it mentions Rape and sexual assault

7pm

 

SATURDAY 04 NOV 

The Last Picture by Catherine Dyson

You are an audience in a theatre, in 2023.

You are a class of Year 9 schoolchildren on a trip with your teacher.

You are the citizens of a European city in 1939, watching the storm clouds gather on the horizon.

The Last Picture invites you on a journey told through pictures which chart the course of a familiar part of our history. It tells the parallel stories of a contemporary school trip, and the unfolding horrors of the Holocaust, through the eyes of Sam, an emotional support dog. Sam will take care of you. Sam will make sure that everyone is okay.

This is a play which explores the power and limits of our empathy, and asks us to look at our shared past and present in a new way. It’s a story of us, of Europe and of now.

A rehearsed reading of one of the 37 Plays winners

2pm

 

And I Dreamt I Was Drowning By Amanda Wilkin

Kiya and Daniel are two friends who are desperate escape the country of their birth and make the journey to Europe.

She would do anything to get there. He would do anything to stay with her.

If we have to lose ourselves in order to get somewhere, will the sacrifice be worth it?

A rehearsed reading of one of the 37 Plays winners

7pm

Biographies

Patty Kim Hamilton is a poet-playwright, dramaturg, director and performance artist. Her work exists at the intersection of the intimate and the political – meditating on bodies, gender, language and memory. In the 2023-2024 season she is playwright in residence at the Deutsches Theater and will have a world premiere of Schmerz Camp in Germany. Her Play, Peeling Oranges is the recipient of the Heidelberger Stückemarkt 2021 Radio Play Prize, the Jane Chambers Award for Feminist Playwriting, and the Nancy Dean Lesbian Playwriting award, amongst other nominations and mentions. She is a graduate of Stanford University and University of theArts Berlin, and is represented by Suhrkamp. Updates can be found at instagram.com/grumpy.love. 

The ideas for the play came from multiple sources. One was a writing exercise where I reflected on world current events and personal events, realizing that much of of the sexual awakening of my peer group happened around the time of #metoo. Other inspirations were both Alice Birch’s Revolt. She said. Revolt Again. and Sarah Kane’s Psychosis 4.48. I was interested in the way both of those plays examine greater themes without naming characters (in the original draft there were also no character names), and yet still creating story and dramaturgy.

Catherine Dyson is a writer and performer living in Cardiff. She is Associate Artist with RedCape Theatre and Theatr Iolo. Current and recent writing work includes: The Egg Man (BBC Radio 4 audio drama), Bitcoin Boi (Riverfront Theatre), I Will Still Be Dreaming (2nd Prize Winner Arch 468 Hope Playwriting Prize), On Track (RedCape Theatre), Believers (South Street Arts Centre), Thunder Road (RedCape Theatre), and Transporter (Theatr Iolo). She is currently writing a new version of Peter Pan for the Sherman Theatre, and The Luminous, a new play for RedCape Theatre.

With antisemitism on the rise, and the old language of division used against people who seek refuge on our shores, I wanted to see if it was possible to write about the Holocaust in a new way. I wondered if filtering the story through the eyes of a dog could somehow bring it closer, but make it more possible to look at. The play describes a series of pictures which we never actually see, but imagine collectively as an audience. I wanted to create a shared experience that also leaves room for personal and private connections. We are all connected to this piece of shared history in different ways. For me, it’s through a box of old photographs of family members that my Jewish grandfather brought with him on his long journey across land and sea from Ukraine to Australia, decades ago. Most of the people in the photographs did not survive.

Amanda Wilkin is a playwright, actress and jazz and blues singer-songwriter from London. In 2017 she was on the Royal Court and BBC London Writers’ Groups. In early 2019 she wrote and performed THE LITTLE SOB as part of Dark Night of the Soul at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, and returned there in early 2020 with BESSIE COLEMAN about the first African American female pilot as part of Notes to the Forgotten She-Wolves. In 2020 she won the Verity Bargate Award for her play SHEDDING A SKIN, which she performed at Soho Theatre to huge critical acclaim in summer 2021, before reviving it there in March 2022. The play was shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award 2022, and she is now developing it for television with Three Tables. Her play RECOGNITION, about the C19th’s famous dual heritage composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, was presented originally as an audio play by 45North Ltd/Ellie Keel Productions, 2021, and is now being developed into a full length piece to be presented as Talawa’s headline show as part of Croydon’s City of Culture 2023. Her play AND I DREAMT I WAS DROWNING was selected for Theatertreffen Stückemarkt from over 350 plays submitted by over 60 countries to have a reading as part of the festival in Germany in May 2022, and she won the prize of a commission of a new work which will be staged at the Schauspiel Leipzig as part of the 2023/2024 season. Amanda is also under commission to Audible as part of their Emerging Playwrights Programme and to Headlong Theatre Company, having been Writer in Residence there 2021/2, and has just completed the Young Women Opera Makers residency 2021/22 at Festival D’Aix-en Provence. She is also writing her first feature for Joy Productions / Film 4.

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