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Dateline: 26th May, 2011
George Devine Award Winner Penelope Skinner, whose play The Village Bike opens at the Royal Court Theatre on 1st July (previews from 24th June), has been awarded the 2011 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright.
The George Devine award is an annual award for new writing in theatre. Coming with a prize of £10 000, it is open to any playwright in the UK for an original stage play, which need not have been produced. It was set up in 1966 as a memorial to the life and talent of the founding Artistic Director of the Royal Court, George Devine.
Previous winners of the George Devine Award include Edward Bond, Mike Leigh, Hanif Kureishi, Martin McDonagh, Conor McPherson, Enda Walsh, Rebecca Gilman, Mark O'Rowe, Gary Owen, Lucy Prebble, Alexandra Wood, Hassan Abdulrazzak, Nick Payne and Vivenne Franzmann.
The Village Bike is the Royal Court debut from Penelope Skinner. A graduate from the Royal Court’s writing programmes, her credits elsewhere includes a collaboration with Moira Buffini, Matt Charman and Jack Thorne on Greenland at the National Theatre, Eigengrau at the Bush Theatre, Scarlet's Circus for Hampstead Theatre's Heat & Light Group, and Fucked at the Old Red Lion in 2008 and at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe.
The cast includes Nicholas Burns, Phil Cornwell, Romola Garai and Alexandra Gilbreath, Dominic Rowan and Sasha Waddell. It is directed by Joe Hill Gibbins, designed by Helen Goddard, with lighting by James Farncombe and sound by David McSeveney
Becky's pregnant and frustrated. But her husband is more interested in the baby manual than her new underwear so she turns to the porn stash under the bed. As the summer heats up, a brief encounter sends her speeding downhill towards reckless abandon.
Recommended for age 18+ and containing scenes of a sexual nature, The Viiage Bike is described as "a provocative and darkly comic look at fantasy and romance."
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