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Trueman and the Arsonists

by Max Frisch, Chris Thorpe, Simon Stephens ...

Series series Modern Plays
But the best disguise, I find, is always the absolute bollock naked truth. It's really strange. Nobody believes it.This is an amoral morality play. It's also got songs in it.Fires keep starting. All across the city, arsonists worm their way into respectable people's homes only to burn them all down. It's a plague. And we don't know why.But Trueman is no fool. He can spot an arsonist from a mile ... Read more

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But the best disguise, I find, is always the absolute bollock naked truth. It's really strange. Nobody believes it.This is an amoral morality play. It's also got songs in it.Fires keep starting. All across the city, arsonists worm their way into respectable people's homes only to burn them all down. It's a plague. And we don't know why.But Trueman is no fool. He can spot an arsonist from a mile
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The Shape of the Pain

by Chris Thorpe, Rachel Bagshaw ...

Series series Oberon Modern Plays
One woman attempts to articulate her experience of physical pain. Pain with no apparent cause. Also, she's met someone, and they want to make this work.Words, light and an original sound score collide in a new piece from this Scotsman Fringe First award-winning team – exploring life in extremity, and the joy that can be found there. ... Read more

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One woman attempts to articulate her experience of physical pain. Pain with no apparent cause. Also, she's met someone, and they want to make this work.Words, light and an original sound score collide in a new piece from this Scotsman Fringe First award-winning team – exploring life in extremity, and the joy that can be found there.
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The Mysteries

by Chris Thorpe ...

Series series Oberon Modern Plays
Six plays, six places: Eskdale, Staindrop, Whitby, Boston, Stoke-on-Trent, Manchester.ChrisThorpe's cycle of six warm, witty new plays crosses Northern England, from a sheep farm in Eskdale via a tourist information centre in Whitby to Manchester.A fort on a hilltop, a landowner's estate, a tourist information office, a bird sanctuary, a re-developed factory, a public square, silent and ... Read more

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Six plays, six places: Eskdale, Staindrop, Whitby, Boston, Stoke-on-Trent, Manchester.ChrisThorpe's cycle of six warm, witty new plays crosses Northern England, from a sheep farm in Eskdale via a tourist information centre in Whitby to Manchester.A fort on a hilltop, a landowner's estate, a tourist information office, a bird sanctuary, a re-developed factory, a public square, silent and
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Victory Condition

by Chris Thorpe ...

Series series Oberon Modern Plays
“A thousand people are taking a sip of coffee within the city limits of Johannesburg, each unaware of the other doing it, each one necessarily thinking they are the only one.”An attempt to get to grips with the fact that everything happens at once.And to see if there’s anything we can do about it.“Find the connection between where you are and where I am. Open up the space between us and do ... Read more

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“A thousand people are taking a sip of coffee within the city limits of Johannesburg, each unaware of the other doing it, each one necessarily thinking they are the only one.”An attempt to get to grips with the fact that everything happens at once.And to see if there’s anything we can do about it.“Find the connection between where you are and where I am. Open up the space between us and do
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There Has Possibly Been An Incident

by Chris Thorpe ...

Series series Oberon Modern Plays
When life offers you a choice between heroism and compromise - what happens? Sometimes planes don’t land the way they’re supposed to. The people of a country have had enough of their leaders, but those leaders have to be replaced with something. A person steps out of a crowd and, for a moment, becomes more than human. A man walks into the lobby of a building and brings death with him to prove his ... Read more

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When life offers you a choice between heroism and compromise - what happens? Sometimes planes don’t land the way they’re supposed to. The people of a country have had enough of their leaders, but those leaders have to be replaced with something. A person steps out of a crowd and, for a moment, becomes more than human. A man walks into the lobby of a building and brings death with him to prove his
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Confirmation

by Chris Thorpe, Rachel Chavkin ...

Series series Oberon Modern Plays
Winner of a Scotsman Fringe First Award 2014If you pinned me against a wall and put a gun to my head, I’d probably admit to being a liberal. Actually if you pinned me against a wall and put a gun to my head,I’d probably admit to being whatever you wanted me to be. And of course, putting a gun to my head is exactly what I’d expect from someone likeyou.Confirmation is a show about the gulf between ... Read more

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Winner of a Scotsman Fringe First Award 2014If you pinned me against a wall and put a gun to my head, I’d probably admit to being a liberal. Actually if you pinned me against a wall and put a gun to my head,I’d probably admit to being whatever you wanted me to be. And of course, putting a gun to my head is exactly what I’d expect from someone likeyou.Confirmation is a show about the gulf between
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Status

by Chris Thorpe ...

Series series Oberon Modern Plays
Status is a show about someone who doesn't want his any more. About running away from the national story you're given. About who is responsible for that story and what might happen to it if you give it up.A globe-spanning journey of attempted escape, with songs along the way. Status springs from conversations about who we might be, and whether your country needs you more than you might need it.A ... Read more

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Status is a show about someone who doesn't want his any more. About running away from the national story you're given. About who is responsible for that story and what might happen to it if you give it up.A globe-spanning journey of attempted escape, with songs along the way. Status springs from conversations about who we might be, and whether your country needs you more than you might need it.A
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I Wish I Was Lonely/The Oh Fuck Moment

by Hannah Walker, Chris Thorpe ...

Series series Modern Plays
Two performance texts by Hannah Jane Walker and Chris ThorpeThe Oh Fuck MomentFucking up is the truest, funniest, most terrifying moment you can experience. Poet Hannah Jane Walker and theatre-maker Chris Thorpe examine the poetic guts of mistakes in a bundle of words and strip lighting. The Oh Fuck Moment is an award-winning conversation around a desk for brave souls to hold their hands up and ... Read more

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Two performance texts by Hannah Jane Walker and Chris ThorpeThe Oh Fuck MomentFucking up is the truest, funniest, most terrifying moment you can experience. Poet Hannah Jane Walker and theatre-maker Chris Thorpe examine the poetic guts of mistakes in a bundle of words and strip lighting. The Oh Fuck Moment is an award-winning conversation around a desk for brave souls to hold their hands up and
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Positive Stories For Negative Times

Five Plays For Young People to Perform in Real Life or Remotely

by Ms Sabrina Mahfouz, Stef Smith, Chris Thorpe, Bea Webster, Jack Nurse, Robbie Gordon ...

Series series Plays for Young People
Five exciting new plays for young people written specifically in response to a world in the midst of a pandemic, accompanied by a handbook from Wonder Fools theatre company with guidance for staging the plays either online or live in the space.Commissioned as part of Wonder Fools' national participatory project Positive Stories for Negative Times, these five plays offer a variety of stories, ... Read more

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Five exciting new plays for young people written specifically in response to a world in the midst of a pandemic, accompanied by a handbook from Wonder Fools theatre company with guidance for staging the plays either online or live in the space.Commissioned as part of Wonder Fools' national participatory project Positive Stories for Negative Times, these five plays offer a variety of stories,
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Rio Story

by Chris Thorpe ...

Narrated by Charles Paraventi, Full Cast ...

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Set in one of Rio de Janeiro's most crowded favelas, this ambitious drama is part love-story and part thriller revolving around a single day in the lives of a couple of thieves, a crooked policeman, a charity worker, a priest, a blind revolutionary and a pregnant street-kid. Recorded in Brazil, it was made with the help of the Nos do Morro theatre in Vidigal, Rio de Janeiro. Starring Charles ... Read more

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Set in one of Rio de Janeiro's most crowded favelas, this ambitious drama is part love-story and part thriller revolving around a single day in the lives of a couple of thieves, a crooked policeman, a charity worker, a priest, a blind revolutionary and a pregnant street-kid. Recorded in Brazil, it was made with the help of the Nos do Morro theatre in Vidigal, Rio de Janeiro. Starring Charles
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Flames of Betrayal

by James Swallow, John French, Nick Kyme, Dan Abnett, Gav Thorpe, Guy Haley, Chris Wraight, Aaron Dembski-Bowden ...

Series series The Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra
A Horus Heresy AnthologyThe scars of mankind’s great schism will never fully heal. For those left behind, a new Era of Ruin is dawning, promising both new beginnings and fresh peril for an Imperium riven by trauma and war. Meanwhile, a loyal son must face down his traitorous father, grown monstrous with infernal power.READ IT BECAUSESome of Black Library’s most beloved authors explore the death ... Read more

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A Horus Heresy AnthologyThe scars of mankind’s great schism will never fully heal. For those left behind, a new Era of Ruin is dawning, promising both new beginnings and fresh peril for an Imperium riven by trauma and war. Meanwhile, a loyal son must face down his traitorous father, grown monstrous with infernal power.READ IT BECAUSESome of Black Library’s most beloved authors explore the death
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Era Of Ruin

by Dan Abnett, Aaron Dembski-Bowden, John French, Guy Haley, Nick Kyme, Gav Thorpe, Chris Wraight ...

Series series The Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra
A Siege of Terra AnthologyHorus is dead. His Heresy is over. The scars of mankind’s great schism will never fully heal. For those left behind, a new Era of Ruin is dawning, promising both new beginnings and fresh peril for an Imperium riven by trauma and war.READ IT BECAUSEThis is the final instalment of the Horus Heresy but that was just the beginning of a much darker tale which will be 10,000 ... Read more

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A Siege of Terra AnthologyHorus is dead. His Heresy is over. The scars of mankind’s great schism will never fully heal. For those left behind, a new Era of Ruin is dawning, promising both new beginnings and fresh peril for an Imperium riven by trauma and war.READ IT BECAUSEThis is the final instalment of the Horus Heresy but that was just the beginning of a much darker tale which will be 10,000
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