A first reading of our upcoming original play.

THE INVITATION tells the story of the aftershocks of trauma that seep through families generation after generation. It is a familiar story that we can all relate to through variations and iterations of our own family trauma that we have experienced knowingly (and not knowingly) throughout our lives.

Kate is delighted when she finds a house in the country to escape to for New Year's Eve. Gathering together a select group of her closest friends, she is keen to start the coming year afresh. But successful, stressed-out thritysomethings in search of a good time can make for one very fearsome party...and some surprising resolutions. 

The Priory premiered at the Royal Court in 2009.

“Emma was having the time of her life.
Now she’s in rehab.

Her first step is to admit that she has a problem. But the problem isn’t with Emma, it’s with everything else. She needs to tell the truth. But she’s smart enough to know that there’s no such thing. When intoxication feels like the only way to survive the modern world, how can she ever sober up?”

“Hearts and minds racing, Connie and Tristan are falling for each other fast. But is their sudden and intoxicating chemistry real, or a side effect of a new antidepressant? As two young volunteers in a clinical drug trial, their illicit romance poses startling dilemmas for the supervising doctors”.

Martin Gray, a successful architect, leads an ideal life with his wife and teenage son. When he admits to his best friend that he is in love with Sylvia, Martin sets in motion a chain of events that will ultimately destroy his idyllic world. The play opened on Broadway in 2002. It won the 2022 Tony Award for Best Play, the 2002 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, and was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. 

After the collapse of civilization, a group of survivors share a campfire and begin to piece together the plot of The Simpsons episode 'Cape Feare' entirely from memory. Seven years later, this and other snippets of pop culture have become the live entertainment of a post-apocalyptic society sincerely trying to hold onto its past. Seventy-five years later, these are the myths and legends from which new forms of performance are created.

A 1934 American play set in an all-girls boarding school run by two women, Karen Wright and Martha Dobie. An angry student, Mary Tilford, runs away from the school and, to avoid being sent back, tells her grandmother that the two headmistresses are having a lesbian affair. The accusation proceeds to destroy the womens' careers, relationships, and lives. 

Options: The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman, One Man Two Guvnors by Richard Bean, Men of Steel by Qui Ngyen

We will be reading collectively reading Carol Churchill’s play ‘Love and Information’.

A compilation of short scenes whose backstory and characters are up to interpretation…

“Someone sneezes. Someone can’t get a signal. Someone won’t answer the door. Someone put an elephant on the stairs. Someone’s not ready to talk. Someone is her brother’s mother. Someone hates irrational numbers. Someone told the police. Someone got a message from the traffic light. Someone’s never felt like this before.

In this fast moving kaleidoscope, more than a hundred characters try to make sense of what they know.”

Love and Information premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London in September 2012 under the direction of James Macdonald.