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Zusatztext Lampedusa is one of the most gently enticing pieces of storytelling you will see! softly encroaching on the moral consciousness like a lullaby. . . . Lustgarten's descriptions of drowning have a power that comes from fleshy detail matched by poetic virtuosity. There's dark beauty here! on the sharp end of Europe's implosion Informationen zum Autor Born in Nottingham, Beth Steel was part of the Invitation Group for Emerging Writers at the Royal Court and later the attached to Theatre503 through the 503/five writers' programme. Her first full length play, Ditch , opened at the HighTide festival in 2010, later transferring to the Old Vic Tunnels. Harry Melling began his career at eleven-years-old appearing in the Harry Potter films playing Dudley Dursley. He subsequently went on to train at LAMDA and has since appeared in productions such as Mother Courage and her Children and Women Beware Women (both National Theatre), School For Scandal (Barbican/Holland Festival), When Did You Last See My Mother? (Trafalgar Studios), I Am A Camera (Southwark Playhouse), Smack Family Robinsons (Rose Theatre Kingston), and The Hothouse (Trafalgar Studios), King Lear at Chichester Festival/BAM, playing The Fool opposite Frank Langella's King Lear. Televison credits include Joe Mistry; Garrow's Law; Merlin; Just William and Friends and Crocodiles . His first play, peddling , premiered in 2014 in a production by hightide, before being revived in 2015. Dan LeFranc received the 2010 New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award for Sixty Miles to Silver Lake , premiered by Page 73 Productions and Soho Rep. His most recent play, The Big Meal , received its world premiere at American Theater Company in Chicago, and its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons in 2012. His other plays include Troublemaker or The Freakin Kick-A Adventures of Bradley Boatright , Origin Story , Bruise Easy , Night Surf , In The Labyrinth , The Fishbone Fables , Backyard , Kill The Keepers , and Catgut . Anders Lustgarten is Pearson Playwright-in-Residence at the Finborough Theatre, where his first two plays, The Insurgents (2007) and Enduring Freedom (2008), were produced. Other work includes The Punishment Stories , (shortlisted for the 2007 Verity Bargate Award), an adaptation of Slawomir Mrozek's The Police (BAC 2007), The Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie (2010) for the National Theatre Studio and If You Don't Let Us Dream Then We Won't Let You Sleep (Royal Court, 2013). Anders is a political activist, has taught on Death Row, been arrested by the Turkish secret police, and holds a PhD in Chinese politics from the University of California. He also won the inaugural Harold Pinter Playwrights Award with a commission from the Royal Court in 2011. Klappentext HighTide Theatre Festival was founded in 2006 and has since become one of the most prolific homes of new writing. It has been described by the Telegraph as "one of the little gems of the artistic calendar in Britain" and by the Daily Mail as "famous for championing emerging playwrights and contemporary theatre".2016 marks ten years of HighTide, during which time numerous emerging playwrights and new plays have shot to prominence.This anniversary volume brings together four of the key plays that have come out of HighTide Theatre Festival's programme during this time: Ditch by Beth Steel is a clear-eyed look at how we might behave when the conveniences of our civilisation are taken away, and a frightening vision of a future that could all too easily be ours. peddling by Harry Melling is a poetic monologue about a young homeless man, which confronts whether it's a good thing to turn a blind eye and let people get on with their lives, or ...
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Beth Steel, Harry Melling, Dan Le Franc and Anders Lustgarten
