I’ll tell you what I really want. I want to jump clean out of my brain.
Essie’s lost her job. Her girlfriend’s left. But she’s alright. Except lately she feels more like a chair than a person. One of those folding chairs. Solid one minute. And then.
From award-winning Irish writer Margaret Perry (Porcelain, Abbey Theatre), Collapsible is a funny, furious new monologue about holding on in this collapsing world. For anyone who has ever felt crumbly.
Winner of the Origins Award for Outstanding New Work, VAULT Festival 2019.
05 February - 14 MarchFrom £10
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Margaret is a playwright from Cork. Her debut play Porcelain was picked from the unsolicited script submissions pile and produced by the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in February/March 2018. She subsequently adapted the play for BBC Radio 4, where it was shortlisted for Best Audio Drama at the Prix Marulic 2019. Her second play Collapsible won an Origin Award for Outstanding New Work at Vault Festival 2019. It was a best of the festival pick in the Guardian and Evening Standard for its Edinburgh run co-produced by HighTide and Ellie Keel Productions, where it picked up a Stage Edinburgh Award, and it won the Fishamble New Writing Award at Dublin Fringe 2019. It opens at the Bush Theatre in February 2020. She has previously been part of Soho Writers Lab where her play Every Little was shortlisted for the Tony Craze Award 2019 and has also taken part in the Royal Court Young Writers Programme, Barbican Young Poets and the Royal Court Supergroup 2019, led by Alice Birch and Alistair McDowell.
She is currently under commission at Bush Theatre and The Yard Theatre. She’s a graduate of Drama and Theatre Studies at University College Cork, where she also teaches playwriting.
Thomas Martin is a director based between London and Dublin. Previous work includes the award-winning Ross & Rachel, by James Fritz (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 59E59 New York, Battersea Arts Centre, UK Tour); If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love You, by John O’Donovan (Old Red Lion, Project Arts Centre, Glor Ennis, Mick Lally Galway, VAULT Festival); Siren, by David Elms (Edinburgh Fringe, VAULT Festival); Bromley, Bedlam, Bethlehem, by Rachel Tookey (Old Red Lion); Followers, by Stewart Melton (Southwark Playhouse).
Work with young people and non-professionals includes Sing Before You Speak Again (Young Vic Taking Part) and Talk Me Down (Cambridge Junction Young Company). He trained on the National Theatre’s Directors Course, was a finalist for the JMK Award, and curates Beta Public, London’s only night of theatre and video games.
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