Finborough Theatre Co Presents REGOLITH, Opens January 10, 2010

WORLD PREMIERE by Chris Lee, Directed and Designed by Ken McClymont.

"This we have craved. This is our nightmare. This is tomorrow."

The world premiere of Regolith by former Finborough Theatre Pearson Playwright-in-Residence, Chris Lee, opens at the Finborough Theatre on Sunday, 10 January 2010 (Press Night: Monday, 11 January 2010) for six Sunday and Monday performances, as part of the [ NEW YEAR | NEW PLAYS SEASON ], celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Finborough Theatre.

A stunning and poetic meditation on the loves and hates, the murder and betrayal, and the sweet destruction of a mother and daughter relationship.

Across a barren landscape and into the city of fire, down the course of the freezing river and out to The Edge of the universe, Regolith is a beautiful testament to the power of language, set in the wrecked, ruined rubble of the world. Words can shine a light on the terror in your heart. Do you love your daughter? Yes, but do you love her enough?

An Irish writer living in London, playwright Chris Lee is a former Pearson Playwright-in-Residence at the Finborough Theatre where two of his plays have been presented - The Optimist's Daughters (1997) and Online and Paranoid in the Sentimental City (2000). He was Anglo Irish Bank Writer-in-Association with The Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Ireland's National Theatre, which has presented two of his plays in its Peacock Theatre - The Map Maker's Sorrow, and The Electrocution Of Children which won the Stewart Parker New Playwright Award. His other plays include Hummingbird (Old Red Lion), Eat The Enemy (Old Red Lion and TheaterLab, Houston, Texas), Vermilion Dream (Salisbury Playhouse), The Ash Boy and The Water Harvest (Theatre 503). His plays have also been performed in English and in translation in New York, Houston, Copenhagen and Paris, while The Water Harvest is currently in pre-production as a film. Chris' most recent play The Orgy of Outrage recently had a reading at The Soho Theatre.

Director and Designer Ken McClymont graduated in Fine Art from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee. He was Artistic Director of the Old Red Lion Theatre from 1988-2002. He has directed over forty productions of mostly new plays including Doig The Musical With No Singing No Dancing And Very Little Music by Greg Freeman in September 2009 (Tabard Theatre), Hummingbird and Eat The Enemy by Chris Lee in 1996 and 1999 (Old Red Lion Theatre). He was Scottish Arts Council Trainee Director based at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, under the aegis of Michael Boyd (now Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company) from 1992-1994. He won an Outstanding Contribution to Fringe Theatre Award in recognition of consistent programming of an exceptional standard in the 1989-1990 Charrington London Fringe Awards, a Best Director Award at the London New Play Festival) and Best Production of a Comedy Award at the Charrington London Fringe Awards for John Byrne's The Slab Boys. He continues to produce paintings and designs, most recently exhibited at Gallerie Croissant - Studio DVO, in Brussels in November 2009. www.kenmcclymont.co.uk

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