New York Playwright Repeats At British Theatre Challenge

New York playwright Allston James's drama THE LOOK BACK was among the winning plays performed at the 2017 British Theatre Challenge on 20 & 21 October at London's Stockwell Playhouse. This was James's second win at the festival in two years. His earlier play SURIBACHI won the Audience Appreciation Award in 2015. Winning plays were selected from hundreds of international submissions and received full stage production that was filmed by London's Mini-Mammoth Films.

Featuring Christopher Birks and Andrew Hollingworth, THE LOOK BACK was directed by John Mitton, Artistic Director of Sky Blue Theatre Company, producer of the British Theatre Challenge. The play, James says, "addresses the question of what happens when we let love slip through our fingers. With time, does regret multiply itself or does it diminish?"

James's drama I KNEW KING WHEN HE WAS NOBODY was Long-Listed for this year's Kenneth Branagh New Drama Writing Award.