VIBRANT, the new writing festival of London's Finborough Theatre in this, its fifth year, offers 17 staged readings from UK and international playwrights.
Concentrating on full-length pieces for the stage, works include a musical, a verbatim theatre piece and the European première of The River and the Mountain, a play dealing with homosexuality in Uganda which saw the deportation of its producer and which was eventually banned by the censors there.
Directors include Phil Willmott, Max Pappenheim, Chris New, Jennifer Bakst, Kate Wasserberg, Eleanor Rhode, Purni Morell and Andrew Keates.
The line-up is:
- Death in Whitbridge by Alexi Kaye Campbell
- Then I Realised I'd Been Murdered by Nicholas de Jongh
- Home Free by Sarah Grochala
- Pain is Weakness Leaving the Body by Stuart Slade
- The Pavilion by Chris Dunkley
- 100 Men by John AD Fraser
- The Most Unsatisfied Town by Amy Evans
- The River and the Mountain by Beau Hopkins
- We Know Where You Live by Steven Hevey
- A Long and Happy Life by Bekah Brunstetter
- Hate Radio by Milo Rau, translated by John Neilan
- 17 by Dameon Garnett
- Defect – An alternate reality musical music by Craig Adams, book and lyrics by Craig Adams and Clare Prenton, based on an original idea by Craig Adams and Ian Watson
- Avow by Bill C Davis
- The Anthropophaga by Al Smith
- Excess Life by Shamser Sinha
- Adult Male Category A by Louise Monaghan
VIBRANT 2013 is curated by Finborough Theatre Artistic Director Neil McPherson; it runs from 6 to 25 October.