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Plays by Joe Penhall |Judy Upton | Mark Jenkins | Naomi Wallace | Biyi Bandele | Laura Bridgetman

Celebrating 10 years of the London New Play Festival, featuring six plays:

Wild Turkey by Joe Penhall: Two small businessmen struggle to keep their flagging burger bar afloat, in the face of increasingly savage and bizarre forces.

Everlasting Rose by Judy Upton: Terrified of ageing, a caravan Casanova changes wives every decade, until a woman of the 90’s challenges his routine.

Strindberg Knew My Father by Mark Jenkins: Life becomes farce as Strindberg loses control over his characters while writing ‘Miss Julie’.

In the Fields of Aceldama by Naomi Wallace: When their only child dies in an accident, Mattie and Henry draw on her spirited past to find the strength to go on.

Two Horsemen by Biyi Bandele: Baja and Langbaja trade stories about life, sex and god in a run-down shack. Will their stories sustain them, or trap them forever?

Maison Splendide by Laura Bridgetman: House-sitting for gangsters, Honey and Moon enact a ‘let’s pretend’ lesbian white wedding, parodying suburban customs.

 Writer, Director, teacher primarily in theatre. Artistic Director and co-founder of London New Play Festival where he has developed scripts with some of Britain’s most up-and-coming writers. He has produced the first play of emerging playwrights like Mark Ravenhill, Judy Upton, Joe Penhall, Naomi Wallace and the early works of ‘Biyi Bandele, Jessica Townsend, Bonnie Greer and Anthony Neilson. He has guided over 100 playwrights into full productions of their new plays in London at the Old Red Lion, the Gate, the Finborough and the Bush Theatres, and the Riverside, the Lyric and the Young Vic Studios.