Plays from VAULT 4 (NHB Modern Plays): Seven new plays from VAULT Festival

by Maud Dromgoole, Nathan Lucky Wood, Nabilah Said, Margaret Perry, Jodi Gray

Overview

An anthology of seven of the best plays from VAULT Festival 2019, London's biggest and most exciting arts festival.

3 Billion Seconds by Maud Dromgoole is a hilarious, macabre love story about a pregnant couple of activists attempting to offset the carbon footprint of their unborn baby's life.

Alcatraz by Nathan Lucky Wood is a thrilling play about family and social care that follows Sandy on her daring, Christmas mission to emulate Clint Eastwood and bust her gran out of lock-up.

Collapsible by Margaret Perry is a funny, furious monologue about navigating a world that cares so much about you keeping it together, it doesn't notice you falling apart.

Inside Voices by Nabilah Said blends dark comedy and magic realism in its subversive portrayal of three Singaporean Muslim women challenging the bounds of freedom, feminism and faith in a place that isn't home.

Open by Christopher Adams and Timothy Allsop is a frank, refreshing romance that draws on interviews, conversation and private correspondence to explore the authors' real-life open marriage.

Jericho by Malaprop Theatre is an off-kilter, high-energy, form-pushing play about what pro-wrestling and politics have in common. It asks big questions in weird ways, like what can a pop-culture journalist do to stop the world burning down?

Thrown by Jodi Gray sees a child-psychologist attempting to record what she's spent her whole life trying to forget, as the memories of former patients collide with her own.

'A major London festival … showcasing new and rising talent' Independent on VAULT Festival

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781788501422
Publisher:	Hern, Nick Books
Publication date:	01/31/2019
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	360
File size:	821 KB

About the Author

Maud Dromgoole is a writer from London. Her plays include Mary’s Babies (VAULT Festival/King’s Head/Fertility Fest @ Bush Theatre/Jermyn Street Theatre); Rosa, Ursula and Richard (Finalist MercuryWeinberger Prize; reading at Old Red Lion); Blue Moon (Bread and Roses/The Courtyard/Arcola – as short play). Her short plays include Sleeping Beauty (The Bunker); Milk (The Bunker/Hackney Attic); Cake (The Cockpit/Tristan Bates Theatre); The Boy James (Love Bites); A Violet in the Youth of Primy Nature (Theatre Utopia) and Selkie (Southwark Playhouse/Old Red Lion).
Nathan Lucky Wood grew up in London. He was a member of the Soho Theatre Writer’s Lab. His play, A Haunting, premiered at the King’s Head Theatre in 2016 before transferring to VAULT Festival and the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry. His work has been seen at the Bush Theatre, Arcola Theatre, Southwark Playhouse, Leicester Square Arts Theatre, Rich Mix, and Theatre503.
Nabilah Said is a playwright, arts reviewer and poet whose plays have been presented in Singapore and London. She has written eight plays to date, including ANGKAT, a festival commission of the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2019, and a reading of yesterday it rained salt at London’s Bunker Theatre in 2017. In 2018, she founded Lazy Native, a theatre collective that champions Southeast Asian narratives in theatre.
Margaret Perry is a playwright from Cork, living in London. Her first play Porcelain was produced by the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2018 and adapted for BBC Radio 4.
Jodi Gray is a playwright and screenwriter. She is Associate Artist with Vanner Collective and Living Record. She works extensively with drama schools and community theatre groups. Plays include Thrown (Living Record at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018, winner of the Brighton Fringe Award for Excellence; VAULT Festival 2019); Big Bad (VAULT Festival 2018, winner of the Origins Award for Outstanding New Work; London Horror Festival at the Old Red Lion, London); Peep (Bewley’s Theatre Café, Dublin, February 2018, published by Nick Hern Books); Affection, hookup, You Could Move, Reach Out and Touch Me, The Front Room and SSA (all Outbox Theatre, in London and on tour). Short plays include Finale (Caravan Shorts); This Girl (Bold Tendencies); Broken Meats (Salt at Southwark Playhouse); Quirks (Southwark Playhouse); He’s Not There, Peep, Tasty and Rime (Miniaturists at Arcola Theatre). She has also written the short films Broken Meats (dir. Sam Phillips); and Sidetracked (dir. Freddie Hall; nominated for BestWriter at Underwire Festival 2015).
Christopher Adams is a British-American playwright. His play Tumulus won an Origins Award for Outstanding New Work at VAULT 2018 and was published in Plays from VAULT 3. His full-length plays include Antigone (UK tour), Cooked (Bread & Roses Theatre) and Shelter (Shanghai Repertory Theatre). He has received short-play commissions from the Royal Court Theatre and Theatre503, and his plays Lynchburg (2013) and Haunts (2015) made the top-forty list for the Bruntwood Prize. He is a US Fulbright Scholar.
Malaprop Theatre is a Dublin-based collective of theatremakers. Works include LOVE+, BlackCatfishMusketeer by Dylan Coburn Gray, JERICHO, and Everything Not Saved.
Timothy Allsop is an actor and writer who trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he was a winner of the Michael Bryant Verse-Speaking Award and Lilian Baylis Award. His acting credits in film and television credits include The Mummy, Captain Phillips and Detectorists (BBC), and his extensive stage work includes Helen (Shakespeare’s Globe), Thérèse Raquin (National Theatre), Our American Cousin (Finborough Theatre), The Picture of Dorian Gray and Strangers on a Train (English Theatre Frankfurt), the lead in Richard III (Guildford Shakespeare Company) and Murder in the Cathedral (Oxford Playhouse). His novel The Smog is published by Amper & Sand.