Hampstead Theatre has introduced three new performs for its Downstairs house for Spring 2023. The world premiere of Sea Creatures by Cordelia Lynn, directed by James Macdonald will run from 24 March to 29 April. A second world premiere, Biscuits for Breakfast by Gareth Farr, directed by Tessa Walker, will run from 5 May to 10 June. And, in a manufacturing offered by Original Theatre Company, Stumped, by Shomit Dutta, directed by Guy Unsworth, receives its stage premiere at Hampstead Downstairs from 16 June – 22 July.
Sea Creatures is Cordelia Lynn’s first play at Hampstead Theatre. Set in a cottage by the ocean, 4 girls dwell in a home made for 5. Meals are ready, tales are shared and the tide breaks on the shore. When solely certainly one of their two visitors arrive for the summer season, it isn’t fairly the reunion they have been all hoping for. Cordelia Lynn is an award-winning playwright whose different work consists of Love and Other Acts of Violence (Donmar Warehouse), Three Sisters (Almeida) and One for Sorrow (Royal Court).
Gareth Farr’s new play Biscuits for Breakfast is a young story of goals and survival. Joanne and Paul aren’t an apparent match – she is spikey, defensive and a survivor, whereas he’s quiet, thought of and hiding profound grief for his father. The pleasure Paul takes in cooking – and the astonishing meals he prepares – creates a bond between them. When the resort the place they each work closes they usually begin to spiral into poverty, it throws all the pieces up within the air – first the goals of a cookbook and a restaurant, and, ultimately, even the goals of a future collectively. Gareth Farr is an award-winning author whose play Britannia Waves the Rules (Royal Exchange Manchester) gained the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting in 2011.
A sport of cricket and two of the best playwrights are on the coronary heart of Stumped – a brilliantly witty new play by Shomit Dutta. Before Samuel Beckett turned the playwright
Full inventive groups and forged for all three performs can be introduced in the end.
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Sea Creatures
By Cordelia Lynn
Directed by James Macdonald
24 March – 29 April 2023
Captioned performances: 19 April, 7.45pm; 20 April, 2.45pm
‘Where’s Robin?
Where’s Robin?
Where’s Robin?’
In a cottage by the ocean, 4 girls dwell in a home made for 5. Meals are ready, tales are shared and the tide breaks on the shore. When solely certainly one of their two visitors arrives for the summer season, it isn’t fairly the reunion they have been all hoping for.
Sea Creatures is Cordelia Lynn’s first play at Hampstead Theatre. She is an award-winning playwright, librettist and dramaturg. Other work consists of Love and Other Acts of Violence (Donmar Warehouse), Three Sisters (Almeida), One for Sorrow and Lela & Co. (Royal Court). James Macdonald was an Associate and Deputy Director on the Royal Court for 14 years, the place he directed Cordelia Lynn’s One for Sorrow. His work for Hampstead consists of Wild by Mike Bartlett in 2016 and The Arrest of Ai Weiwei by Howard Brenton in 2013.
Biscuits for Breakfast
By Gareth Farr
Directed by Tessa Walker
5 May – 10 June 2023
Captioned performances: 31 May, 7.45pm; 1 Jun 2.45
People all the time have to eat. If you possibly can cook dinner, actually cook dinner, if you recognize flavour and style and texture, folks pays you to do it. People all the time have to eat. Always.
They don’t appear an apparent match. Joanne is spikey, defensive, a survivor, while Paul is quiet, thought of – and hiding profound grief for his father. But the pleasure he takes in cooking – and the astonishing meals he prepares – creates a bond between them. So, when the resort the place they each work closes they usually begin to spiral into poverty, it throws all the pieces up within the air – first the goals of a cookbook and a restaurant, and, ultimately, even the goals of a future collectively.
Gareth Farr is an award-winning author for theatre and TV. His play Britannia Waves the Rules (Royal Exchange Manchester) gained the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting in 2011, toured twice, and has since been produced in Australia. His play The Quiet House was carried out at Birmingham Rep and Park Theatre and was directed by Tessa Walker. Biscuits for Breakfast is Tessa Walker’s second collaboration with Gareth Farr, and she or he returns to Hampstead Theatre following her productions of Ravenscourt, Big Big Sky and The Glad Game.
Stumped
By Shomit Dutta
Directed by Guy Unsworth
16 June – 22 July 2023
Captioned performances: 12 July, 7.45pm; 13 July, 2.45pm
For God’s sake, allow us to sit upon the inexperienced and inform unhappy tales of the autumn of batsmen…
A sport of cricket. Two of the best playwrights. And possibly even time for some tea.
Before Samuel Beckett turned the playwright
Stumped is a brilliantly witty new play by Shomit Dutta which explores what the friendship between these two playwrights could have regarded like.
Shomit Dutta is a author, translator and trainer of Latin and Greek who additionally evaluations books on cricket and the classics. He has been a member of Harold Pinter’s cricket group Gaieties CC for over twenty years and was captain throughout Pinter’s closing years.
Guy Unsworth directs. His credit embrace The System and Being Mr Wickham (each for Original Theatre). He was additionally Associate Director on Much Ado About Nothing and Love’s Labour’s Lost (RSC and West End); Spamalot (West End & UK Tour).
Presented by Original Theatre.