PAINES PLOUGH ROUNDABOUT SEASON 2014
dir. George Perrin // Movement Direction by Sagovsky
LUNGS
by Duncan Macmillan
“I could fly to New York & back every day for seven years & still not leave a carbon footprint as big as if I have a child. Ten thousand tonnes of CO2. That’s the weight of the Eiffel Tower. I’d be giving birth to the Eiffel Tower.” A couple are deciding their future. Thirty-something, educated & thoughtful, they want to have a child for the right reasons. But in a time of overpopulation, erratic weather & political unrest, what exactly are the right reasons? A play about the different types of love we feel in a lifetime.
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A Paines Plough & The Crucible Production, aired on BBC Radio 3 (2013), dir. Richard Wilson 2011-13 & dir. George Perrin 2014-15 for UK Tour
OUR TEACHER’S A TROLL
by Dennis Kelly
Two terrible twins with a talent for turmoil rule their school with terror & tyranny – until the arrival of a new head teacher with green scaly skin, sharp gnarly fangs,& a long spiky tail…Can the twins save the school from the child-eating Troll? Can they get Brussels sprouts in peanut butter taken off the menu? And most importantly, can naughtiness prevail? Be outrageously entertained in this colourfully comic show from the writer of award-winning West End hit Matilda The Musical. For ages 7+ and their accompanying trolls (or parents).
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A Paines Plough, Half Moon Theatre & Brighton Festival production 2015 (UK Tour) // Movement Direction by Sagovsky
THE INITIATE
by Alexandra Wood
A British couple are seized by Somali pirates. In East London, a Somali taxi-driver decides to rescue them. Meeting disbelief with determination, he dismisses his wife’s fears & flies out to negotiate their release. Speeding from the banks of the Thames to the now unfamiliar world of his homeland, he confronts the family he left behind & the bravado of the defiant men he once called brothers. A thrilling tale of altruism, greed, & the search for how to belong from George Devine Award-winning playwright Alexandra Wood.
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A Paines Plough & Brighton Festival production 2014 (UK Tour) // Fringe First Award, Edinburgh Fringe Festival