How many ways are there to say goodbye? Why do we say goodbye? And what does it really feel like? Is it always forever? An adventurous new play about parting that blurs distinctions between time, place and people. Directed by Polly Thomas, with an ensemble cast that includes Fenella Woolgar, David Annen and Frances Grey, My Life is a Series of People Saying Goodbye explores the pain, poignancy and new possibilities of parting.
Award-winning filmmaker Penny Woolcock makes her writing and directing radio debut this Friday night in Y.T. and the Soprano - one of the last of the Friday Plays... TX 28 Jan 2011 9-10pm. Read more here:
This story began life as a film script, and languished, the way of many screenplays. Shai came on our first Dramalab last summer, and the script has now been commissioned as a 45' Radio 4 play.... TX soon to be confirmed. You can see a very happy Shai if you click on the link below:
'Satisfyingly strange and agreeably absurd' [Radio Times] , a new play - brilliantly scheduled! - set against a general election in which not a single person votes. A couple start dismantling their house; next door a pregnant woman refuses to give birth, and all the journos and political pundits are called Chris. Directed by Polly Thomas, featuring David Annen, Amelia Bullmore, Tom Goodman-Hill and Michael Begley, with original composition by Alice Trueman.
A new drama based on the terrifying true story of a young Asian boy serving a 90 day sentence for petty theft who was placed in a prison cell alongside a known racist with psychopathic tendencies. Why were they in the same cell? And have lessons been learned?
Featuring Matthew McNulty and Ross Boatman, written by BAFTA winner Neil McKay.