Collapsible E-Book

Margaret Perry

• Herausgeber: Nick Hern Books
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

'I'll tell you what I really want. I want to jump clean out of my brain.' Essie's lost her job. Her girlfriend's left. But she's alright. Except lately she feels more like a chair than a person. One of those folding chairs. Solid one minute. And then. Margaret Perry's play Collapsible is a funny, furious monologue about holding on in this collapsing world. It was premiered at the 2019 VAULT Festival, London, where it won the Origins Award for Outstanding New Work. It transferred to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2019 (winning the Fishamble New Writing Award), and the Bush Theatre, London, in 2020, in a co-production between Ellie Keel Productions and HighTide.

Leseprobe

Margaret Perry

COLLAPSIBLE

NICK HERN BOOKS

London

www.nickhernbooks.co.uk

Contents

Original Production

Acknowledgements

Dedication

Epigraph

Characters

Some Notes on Production

Collapsible

About the Author

Copyright and Performing Rights Information

Collapsible was produced by HighTide and Ellie Keel Productions and first performed at VAULT Festival, London, on 13 February 2019, before transferring to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2019 and HighTide Festival, Aldeburgh, in September 2019, co-produced with HighTide. The show subsequently transferred to the Dublin Fringe in September 2019, and the Bush Theatre, London, in February–March 2020. The cast was as follows:

ESSIE

Breffni Holahan

DEREK

Omar Ibrahim

Director

Thomas Martin

Designer

Alison Neighbour

Lighting Designer

Alex Fernandes

Sound Designer

Jon McLeod

Producer

Ellie Keel for Ellie Keel Productions

Associate Producer

Jennifer Lunn for Ellie Keel Productions

Production and Marketing

Gabrielle Leadbeater for Ellie Keel Productions

Production Manager

Nathaniel Lunn and Jack Greenyer

Scenic Artist

Victoria Langoy

Stage Manager

Lucy Morris

Acknowledgements

So many people have made this play.

To Ellen Buckley, Eleanor Crosswell and The Miniaturists.

To Stella McCabe, Molly McCarthy and everyone at MGC Futures.

To Hannah Hauer-King, Gillian Greer, Maud Dromgoole and Chris Thorpe.

To Sammy Johnson. To Jessica Stewart.

To Steven Atkinson, Robyn Keynes, Francesca Clark, Holly White, Suba Das and everyone at HighTide, our co-conspirators.

To the Abbey Theatre and Dublin Fringe. To Lynette Linton and the whole team at The Bush.

To the creative team of dreams – Alison Neighbour, Alex Fernandes, Jon Mcleod, Jennifer Lunn, Lucy Morris, Gabrielle Leadbeater, Martha Hegarty, Omar Ibrahim.

To Ellie Keel, an absolute powerhouse. To the astonishing Breffni Holahan. To Thomas Martin, who is as brilliant as he is delightful and has pushed this script to be the very best version of itself. This play is as much all of yours as it is mine.

And to Deirdre O’Halloran, who believed in this play from the very start and champions my writing at every turn.

THANK YOU.

M.P.

To my friends and family,

who keep me sane