New plays get Saturday lunch readings in Birmingham

Published: 30 January 2016
Reporter: Steve Orme

Saturday lunch theatre: five plays from emerging writers will be performed at Birmingham REP

Five writers from Birmingham REP’s programme for emerging writers, REP Foundry, are to have new plays performed as Saturday lunchtime readings.

Live Lunch is a partnership between the REP and London’s Royal Court where the plays will also be performed on Fridays.

Khush Chalal’s A View from the Moon is a play about “love, fear and a journey to the moon”. In 2015 she took part in writing Accidental Brummie which was performed as part of the city’s largest arts festival Birmingham Weekender.

Dylan’s Parents by Stephanie Ridings is about blood ties, re-living grief and being able to go home again. Her other work includes Unknown Male, which won the Peter Brook / Mark Marvin award, and Me, Mum and Dusty Springfield, which premièred at the Edinburgh Festival and toured nationally.

Suriya Roberts-Grey’s Nine Nights is a play about feeling out of place when you’re close to home. She is a theatre practitioner, spoken word artist and social entrepreneur.

I Took My Mother for a Walk by Susie Sillett is a play about “softness, orange and political violence”. She wrote and performed her show I'm Not Like Other Girls at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2014. She also wrote for and performed in Accidental Brummie.

Heroism, loss and chicken piccata are the themes of Violet Fields by Richard Wallis. His play Clubmartyr won the judges’ award at the 2014 Coventry Shoot Festival which recognises up-and-coming talent. His play Urban Legend was shortlisted for the 2013 Play for the Nation's youth award.

Live Lunch will be held at the REP on 5, 12 and 19 March and 2 and 9 April at 12:30PM.

More details are available at the Birmingham REP web site.

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