New Writing SouthSide Shows
Our Side Shows series offer an excellent opportunity for playwrights to work with a professional director and actors to hear their work. Side Shows forms part our wider development offer to writers, informed mostly by our script reading service or other NWS initiatives.
Further rehearsed readings at our associate venue, the Nightingale Theatre will appear here.
Mirror Modes
by Kicking K
directed by Nick Bagnall
As part of our writers development programme, we’re proud to present writer Kicking K and his play Mirror Modes for a reading at the Nightingale Theatre.
Business letters from an enemy capital, memories of off-duty conquests, love rites and war games – Mirror Modes opens in a depopulated village ordered according to a conflict far beyond its borders – and the less information makes it home, the more it takes hold on those visitors and locals left behind. In the shared nightmare which unfolds, an invalid refuses treatment, a youth dreams of becoming a war machine, a profiteer battles her own soft heart and a half-trained priestess is expected to hold their world together. She is not entirely successful.
Date: Sunday 10 October 2010
Time: 4pm
Venue: Nightingale Theatre, Brighton
Cost: £4 on the door
Previous rehearsed readings:
Sunday 27 June 2010
Bandages
written and directed by Kirsty Housley.
Sunday 30 May 2010
Smouldering
written by Ruth Carter
directed by Ed Burnside
Sunday 25 April 2010
Herschel
by Gail Louw
directed by Helena Bell
Email from Gail Louw after her read.
I just wanted to thank you and New Writing South for the opportunity you gave me by organising the workshop and reading of Herschel. It has made such a difference to me as I can now see precisely what needs to be done - cut cut!
The whole day went incredibly well. Helena Bell was wonderful in her director's role and the actors were fabulous. The organisation was extremely good too and everyone appreciated the refreshments!
Sunday 28 June 2009
The Puppy that Ate Christmas
by Andrew G. Marshall and Jamsheed Master
directed by Ed Burnside
Sunday 22 February 2009
Forgiven
by Melissa Perkins
directed by Vincent O'Connell
Sunday 19 October 2008
The Secret Life of a Joke
by Guy Picot
Sunday 28 September 2008
My Space
by Louise Monaghan
directed by Kirsty Housley
Sunday 24 August 2008
The Reception
by Susan Sainsbury
directed by Dinos Aristidou
Sunday 30 September 2007
My Beautiful Arse
by Gail Louw
Sunday 28 October
Something About Sunday
by V.R Morse
Sunday 25 February 2007
The Edge
written by Andrew G. Marshall
directed by Chris
Orr
Sunday 26 November 2006
Fifty
written by Edana Minghella
directed by Tom Edmunds
