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NEW WRITING STUDIO SESSIONS

This season Live’s regular Studio Sessions have been given a makeover. Audiences are invited to be the first to hear exciting new work during a range of unique events including workshops, script-in-hand pieces as well as evenings of writer’s responses to breaking news stories.

Don’t miss a chance to get a sneak peek of work currently under commission. For more information, including details of the latest readings of work by Karen Laws, Margaret Wilkinson, Joe Harbot and Lee Mattinson see the listings below.

 

NEW WRITING STUDIO SESSIONS

  • Thursday 2 September, 8pm
  • LOCATION: Studio Theatre
  • SUITABILITY: 16+
  • TICKETS: £6; £4 concession
  • DURATION: Approx 2 hours 15 minutes including interval
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Craig Taylor’s One Million Tiny Plays About Britain were originally printed weekly in The Guardian.  Ranging in length from a line to two pages; some were hilarious; others moving, some thought-provoking but all inspired by the places and people of Great Britain.  Don’t miss the first chance to see a selection of Craig’s tiny plays performed at Live Theatre. 

Audiences are also invited to provide four writers with ideas to create a tiny play to be written and performed during the course of the evening.

Click Read More to find out whose 'Millions' scripts were chosen and which writers you could be providing inspiration too. 
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  • Thursday 21 & Friday 22 October, 8pm
  • LOCATION: Studio Theatre
  • SUITABILITY: 14+
  • TICKETS: £6; £4 concession
  • DURATION: Approx 2 hours including interval
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Enjoy an evening of work-in-progress performances of funny and poignant monologues looking at ordinary young women at extraordinary points in their lives including new work by Paddy Campbell (Dial-A-Mate) and Lee Mattinson (Me & Cilla). Meet Donna and her reindeer, get to know Stacey and her granddad – and his copy of Readers’ Wives - and take part in the ultimate show and tell presentation.
  • Thursday 28 to Saturday 30 October, 8pm
  • LOCATION: Studio Theatre
  • SUITABILITY: 16+
  • TICKETS: £8; £6 concession
  • DURATION: Approx 2 hours including interval
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Therapy by Dick Curran
Peter Creme's Eyes by Tracy Whitwell

Following their success as rehearsed readings, enjoy a double-bill of new plays by two of Live Theatre’s emerging writers.  Therapy is an engaging comedy about a driving instructor who is busy trying to negotiate his way between his wife, his therapist and his libido, whilst giving away as little as possible.  Peter Creme’s Eyes is a dark tale about sibling rivalry, bitterness and looking for love in all the wrong places.
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Trampled

by Joe Harbot

  • Thursday 11 November, 8pm
  • LOCATION: Studio Theatre
  • SUITABILITY: 14+
  • TICKETS: £6; £4 concessions
  • DURATION: 1 hour 30 minutes including an interval
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The first thing we did was plant a hedge all around the outside of the garden. The suburban dream: a beautiful family in a beautiful house with a beautiful garden. Your home is your castle. But what do you do when the walls of that castle are breached? How long can you keep the outside world at bay?
 

As Flies To Wanton Boys

by Karen Laws and Margaret Wilkinson

  • Thursday 25 November, 8pm
  • LOCATION: Studio Theatre
  • SUITABILITY: 14+
  • TICKETS: £6; £4
  • DURATION: 1 hour 30 minutes including an interval
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All the good and bad things that befall you are written into your destiny and cannot be altered.

How can you grow up in a corrupt and violent environment without yourself becoming a victim of anti-social behaviour, how do you defend yourself if the forces of law and order can't or won't help? This work-in-progress reading of Margaret Wilkinson and Karen Laws’s tragic-comic play explores the moral ambiguities of life in an ASBO world.
 

The Chalet Lines

by Lee Mattinson

  • Thursday 9 December, 8pm
  • LOCATION: Studio Theatre
  • SUITABILITY: 14+
  • TICKETS: £6; £4
  • DURATION: 2 hours including an interval
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Meet the White family. They’ve been coming to Butlins for generations - for holidays, birthdays and weddings. Now they’re here to celebrate Nana Barbara’s seventieth in style and they’re not going to let a few family squabbles get in the way of the most electrifying party Butlins has ever seen. Come and hear the latest draft of Lee Mattinson’s hilarious new play.