The Assassination of Katie Hopkins (NHB Modern Plays) E-Book

Chris Bush

• Herausgeber: Nick Hern Books
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

A shocking crime divides the nation. Fingers are pointed, sides are drawn, facts are hard to come by. Why did this happen? How do we move on? What must we remember? It's easy to have an opinion online, safe behind the anonymity of a keyboard, just like, share and subscribe. But as the digital mob polish their pitchforks, the world starts to question just how free should free speech be? The Assassination of Katie Hopkins is a smart, witty new musical by Chris Bush and Matt Winkworth about truth, celebrity and public outrage. It premiered at Theatr Clwyd in April 2018.

Leseprobe

Chris Bush

THE ASSASSINATIONOF KATIE HOPKINS

Music by

Matt Winkworth

NICK HERN BOOKS

London

www.nickhernbooks.co.uk

Contents

Original Production

Acknowledgements

Characters

Notes on text and production

The Assassination of Katie Hopkins

About the Authors

Copyright and Performing Rights Information

The Assassination of Katie Hopkins was first performed at Theatr Clwyd, Mold, on 20 April 2018, with the following cast:

AMY BOOTH-STEEL

RAKESH BOURY

CHÉ FRANCIS

DEREK HUTCHINSON

GENESIS LYNEA

MAIMUNA MEMON

BETHZIENNA WILLIAMS

MATTHEW WOODYATT

THE BAND

Keyboard One

Jordan Li-Smith

Keyboard Two

Stuart Calvert

Malletkat/Percussion

Tom Daley

Bass

Nathan Welch

Director

James Grieve

Designer

Lucy Osborne

Musical Supervisor

David White

Orchestrator

David White

Movement Director

Lucy Hind

Musical Director

Jordan Li-Smith

Lighting Designer

Oliver Fenwick

Sound Designer

Dominic Kennedy

Video/Projection Designer

Nina Dunn

Assistant Director

Hannah Noone

Assistant Musical Director

Stuart Calvert

Copyist

Stuart Calvert

Keyboard Programmer

Ben Ferguson

Video Engineer/Programmer

Harrison Cooke

Band Fixer

Andy Barnwell

Production Manager

Hannah Lobb

Wardrobe Supervisor

Deborah Knight

Casting

Will Burton

Company Stage Manager

Stevie Haighton

Deputy Stage Manager

Harriet Stewart

Assistant Stage Manager

Linnea Fridén Grønning

Acknowledgements

We’re very lucky to have assembled such an amazing team to bring this piece to life. A big thanks to James Grieve, our phenomenal cast, and everyone else involved. Theatr Clwyd isn’t just a building, it’s a community, and everybody here has constantly gone above and beyond to make us feel welcome (and readily abandoned their day jobs to assemble 2,332 fake mobile-phone units). In particular we’re massively indebted to Tamara Harvey, who has been with us on this project since day one, and whose bravery and passion made it possible.

Additional thanks to the National Theatre Studio for cheeky use of rehearsal rooms, Louise Chantal, Jo Noble and Hannah Groombridge at the Oxford Playhouse, Amy Bradbury at Harbottle Lewis, Julia Mills at Berlin Associates, Eddie Gower at Mountview, David Marsland, Steve Winter, Charlie Westenra, Rosie Robinson, Kate Morley, and every actor who did a workshop or reading with us: Natalie Dew, Natasha Cottrail, Amanda Wilkin, Verity Quade, Matt Harrop, Alan Vicary, Enyi Okoronkwo, Nic Lamont, Adam Rhys-Davies, Will Bridges, Fiona Drummond, Seyi Omooba, Kevin McMonagie, Ciaran Stewart, Erin Doherty, Lynn Hunter, Bethan Cullinane, Gaby French, Kerry Peers, Edd Campbell Bird, Charlotte Miranda-Smith, Rachel-Mae Brady, Kevin Tomlinson, Abi Hood, Hope McNamara, Jake Morter, Paul Chesterton, Alice Guile, Helen Winter, Krage Brown, Michael Gerard, Anna-Marie Acevedo, Rhiannon Bodman, Hebba Rose Brown, Regan Burke, Imogen Byron, Molly Ellingham, Sally Fellows, Andrew Fanklin, Elizabeth Frisby, Nathan James, Myles Osbourne-Banton, Heather Porte, Alice Schofield, Rosie Skuse, Holly Slater, Rebecca Swindells.

Finally, thank you to our families for their constant support and encouragement. We’ll try to upset fewer people with the next show.

Chris Bush and Matt Winkworth,April 2018

Characters

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Plus various NEWS REPORTERS, ANCHORS, CORRESPONDENTS, JOURNALISTS, TWEETS, STATUS UPDATES, BLOGGERS, PROTESTERS and other single-line voices to be drawn from the company as needed.

Notes on text and production

While the events of the play are pure fiction, they are presented as if gathered in a verbatim fashion. Rather than rely solely on interviews and audience address, a lot of the material has a ‘found footage’ feel; scenes consisting of clips from television or radio broadcasts, YouTube videos, news bulletins, vlogs, minutes from meetings, voicemail messages, etc. – any scenario where real-world events may have plausibly been recorded. Wherever possible we should be seeing this ‘original’ footage played/projected/incorporated in some way while simultaneously watching its reenactment on stage.

All bold text is sung.

A forward slash (/) indicates an overlap in dialogue where the next character starts speaking.

When the # symbol appears in dialogue, the word ‘hashtag’ is spoken/sung.

Line breaks are there for ease of reading – they can be ignored wherever not helpful.

This ebook was created before the end of rehearsals and so may differ slightly from the play as performed.

ACT ONE

1. Overture: Have You Seen This?

The stage is bare, except for a number of mobile phones on various tables and surfaces. One by one they start to buzz, slowly building a percussive rhythm. Now they begin to bleep and chirp. Gradually, members of the COMPANY enter. Now the noise of their key tones as they write messages are incorporated into the score, along with the whooshes and chimes as these messages are sent and received. Only now do they start to sing, their voices overlapping.

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