Theatre503 Goes To Latitude Music Festival
By: Carrie Dunn Jul. 05, 2010
Theatre503 opens and closes the theatre tent at Latitude, presenting more work than any other company, all created uniquely for the event. We re-write the rules of Festival Theatre with a momentous world premiere by award-winning Matt Hartley, and push pop theatre to its limits with nine brand new shorts all inspired by this year's music acts.
Epic
by Matt Hartley and directed by Paul Robinson
Thursday 15th July, 7.30-8.30pm and Sunday 18th July, 9.25pm-10.25pm
"Please. Whilst I'm gone. Don't search for how I feel. If things go wrong you'll know."
Jennifer has a gift. When she and her husband Andy are separated, she can see everything that happens to him. The question is: will she want to? If she does, who will believe her?
Commissioned by Theatre503 for Latitude, Epic is a story of love and faith on a galactic scale. Travelling between the intimate and the infinite, Matt Hartley's new play is an astonishing journey into the unexplained. With a cast of 14, Epic is the biggest play Theatre503 has ever produced.
Matt Hartley won Manchester Royal Exchange's Bruntwood Award for Sixty Five Miles in 2007. Other credits include: Punch, Hampstead Theatre; The Bee, Edinburgh and Sentenced, Union Theatre.
PLAYlist
Nine new plays by: Danny Kanaber, Tom Morton Smith, Hannah Mulder, Ben Ockrent, Sian Owen, Lola Stephenson, Colin Teevan, Jack Thorne and Rosalind Wyllie
Directed by Derek Bond
Sunday 18th July, 4.25pm
The festival edition of Theatre503's regular sell-out event. Inspired by the music of artists playing at Latitude, we present nine new plays by a selection of established, emerging and as yet undiscovered writers.
The perfect theatrical mix-tape: some writers you know, some you don't, but all writers you'll end up loving. Playful, poignant, or a puzzle to be solved, the only rule is that each play is no longer than the piece of music that inspired it. A feast of fearless new writing in beautiful, bite-size chunks.
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