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Zusatztext The miracle of Sajtinac's play, in a pithy and often very funny colloquial version by Chris Thorpe, is that it steers a hopeless situation towards a hopeful conclusion. Informationen zum Autor Chris was a founder member of Unlimited Theatre and still works and tours with the company. He is also an Artistic Associate of live art/theatre company Third Angel. He has worked with, among others, Forest Fringe, Slung Low, Chris Goode, RashDash, Belarus Free Theatre and Portuguese experimental company mala voadora - his fourth piece for the company, Your Best Guess opened at Lisbon's Almada festival in 2015. He also plays guitar in Lucy Ellinson's political noise project #TORYCORE and works with the National Student Drama Festival. Chris is an Associate at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. His play for the Exchange, There Has Possibly Been An Incident was selected by Simon Stephens for the Stuckemarktin Berlin, 2014. It has been produced in Denmark and Sweden, on German radio, and is has been produced in Saarbrucken and Vienna, with more productions in the pipeline. He has an ongoing collaboration with director Rachel Chavkinfrom New York's TEAM. Their first piece Confirmation , is currently touring internationally and they are starting to develop their next. His other main collaborator is poet Hannah Jane Walker with whom he made The Oh Fuck Moment and I Wish I Was Lonely . Currently, Chris is touring Confirmation and Unlimited's Am I Dead Yet? He is writing a new version of Beowulf for the Unicorn Theatre, and has written a new piece, Victory Condition, for the Royal Court which will be produced there in 2017. He recently wrote Chorus for The Iphegenia Quartet at The Gate Theatre . He is also working on The Mysteries for the Royal Exchange with Sam Pritchard, who directed There Has Possibly Been An Incident . His piece for director Rachel Bagshaw, The Shape of the Pain, is currently in development. The texts for There Has Possibly Been An Incident and Confirmation , as well as work with Hannah Jane Walker, are published by Oberon Books. His work with mala voadora is published in English and Portuguese. Chris is the Arvon mentor for playwrighting, 2016/17 Klappentext It's hard turning thirty. Especially when your alcoholic father has taken the toilet door, you've got a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl in your bed and your best friend is the lunatic living downstairs. Then an old school friend turns up after ten years living in Huddersfield and it's the start of an evening where the sparks fly and the ketchup flows. A dark, painful and very funny play by Serbian writer Ugljesa Sajtinac, in a version by Fringe First winner, Chris Thorpe, Huddersfield was part of the Northern Exposure season at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. "The miracle of Sajtinac's play, in a pithy and often very funny colloquial version by Chris Thorpe, is that it steers a hopeless situation towards a hopeful conclusion." - Guardian Vorwort A dark, painful and very funny play by Serbian writer Ugljesa Sajtinac. Zusammenfassung It's hard turning thirty. Especially when your alcoholic father has taken the toilet door, you've got a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl in your bed and your best friend is the lunatic living downstairs.Then an old school friend turns up after ten years living in Huddersfield and it's the start of an evening where the sparks fly and the ketchup flows.A dark, painful and very funny play by Serbian writer Ugljesa Sajtinac, in a version by Fringe First winner, Chris Thorpe, Huddersfield was part of the Northern Exposure season at the West Yorkshire Playhouse....
