The audience at Newcastle’s Alphabetti Theatre will see a new play written and performed before their very eyes.
Three writers will write a brand new play in front of the audience—there will be a typewriter, a computer and quill. The writers will hand each line, stage direction and anything else they fancy to the actors for them to act out in front of the audience. They’ll each have to react to what the others write… anything really could happen.
“It’s live writing,” the publicity says. “It’s ridiculous. It could be shit! And that's why you pay at the end!”
At the end of the evening, the audience will pay whatever they want, an idea which is becoming more and more common for new productions in small-scale venues in the North East.
The three writers are:
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Gary Kitching, a performer for 20 years working in theatre, TV and film. His company- Gary Kitching & Co has toured nationally with Dead To Me (2014) and Me & Mr C (2015).
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Richard Stockwell, a scriptwriter since about 1998 when his first play Killing Time was performed at the Theatre Royal Windsor. He has written at least a dozen plays as well as spending two years on Eastenders and writing several screenplays. He now teaches scriptwriting at Northumbria University.
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Louise Taylor is a playwright and one quarter of Meerkat Theatre Company and is a member of ARC Stockton’s writing group The Writer’s ARCADE. Her play The Frights was Alphabetti’s first production in the new theatre in March last year.
Write Faster is at Alphabetti on Saturday 23 January at 7:30.