The Solid Life of Sugar Water E-Book

Jack Thorne

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

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

'It had been a while. I was really nervous. I mean, it's not really like riding a bike. Sex. It's far more complicated.' Phil and Alice are in love – familiar, flawed, ordinary love. They are on a journey, but this journey doesn't have an A to Z. Jack Thorne's The Solid Life of Sugar Water is an intimate, tender play about loss, hurt and rediscovery. It previewed at The Drum, Theatre Royal Plymouth, and premiered at the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, in a co-production between Graeae Theatre Company and Theatre Royal Plymouth.

Leseprobe

Jack Thorne

THE SOLID LIFE OFSUGAR WATER

NICK HERN BOOKS

London

www.nickhernbooks.co.uk

Contents

Title Page

Original Production

A Note on the Play

Dedication

Characters

The Solid Life of Sugar Water

About the Author

Copyright and Performing Rights Information

The Solid Life of Sugar Water was first performed at The Drum, Theatre Royal Plymouth, on 8th June 2015 before transferring to the Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, in a Graeae / Theatre Royal Plymouth co-production. The cast was as follows:

ALICE

Genevieve Barr

PHIL

Arthur Hughes

Director

Amit Sharma

Designer

Lily Arnold

Lighting Designer

Ian Scott

Sound Designer/Composer

Lewis Gibson

Movement Director

Cathy Walker

Voice Coach

Chris Holt

A Note on the Play

Graeae casts Deaf and disabled people in plays that do not specify whether a character is or is not Deaf or disabled.

Sugar Water is in its essence a play about a young couple in an intense and moving relationship and the events that take place can and have happened to any two people, disabled and non-disabled alike. The decision to ask Jack to write some references to being Deaf and disabled came from the fact that they accept and loved those things about each other. It is part of the authenticity of their communication; who they are as people and who they are with each other. The play doesn’t hide away from anything and we felt we could gain so much by having a playfulness and freedom around access which Jack has poignantly and humorously captured.

This is the glorious thing about Graeae and how we creatively use these elements as part of a whole, getting the actors to a place where people could believe their relationship; right from their access, their pain and their fundamental love for each other. Our unique way of working informs the rationale for creative captioning and audio description for our audiences, which generates an excitement of pushing the boundaries of what is theatrically possible.

Amit Sharma, Director

For Chloe Sophia Moss