Secret Shorts
Writers Revisited
Two brand new plays by HighTide alumni, performed in TOP SECRET LOCATIONS.
Jesse Weaver, writer of Muhmah (HighTide Festival 2009), and Adam Brace, writer of Stovepipe (HighTide Festival 2008), return to the HighTide Festival.
Famine Diary
by Jesse Weaver
***SECRET LOCATION***
A play about a play about the Irish Famine. An English producer, an American director and an Irish actress.
Who's the joke on now?
Cast
Bernard Hill
Sam Hodges
Writer
Jesse Weaver
Jesse Weaver is an American playwright based in Dublin. Since last year’s world premiere of Muhmah at the 2009 HighTide Festival, Jesse’s The Artist Needs a Wife has been performed at the Side Project in Chicago.
Direction
Joe Murphy
Theatre as Director includes: The Sock (nabokov Arts Club); The Milkmaid (Present : Tense/Southwark Playhouse); New short plays by Jack Thorne, James Graham, Joel Horwood and Penelope Skinner (The Bush); Service, Building Site (Arcola/Miniaturists); After, Come on Over (Tristan Bates); The Things That Never Grew in the Garden (Hampstead Start Night); Normal (Cockpit); Julius Caesar, Esme-Tales (Edinburgh Fringe); South Pacific (Northcott).
Theatre as Assistant Director includes: The Priory (The Royal Court); 2nd May 1997 (The Bush); Fixer (High Tide Festival); Purgatory (Arcola); Girls and Dolls (Old Red Lion); He Said... (The Bush).
Joe is a Creative Associate at The Bush Theatre.
Joe has a BA(hons) in Drama from Exeter University, and a PG Dip in Theatre Directing from Mountview Academy of Performing Arts.
Saturday 1st May 2010
5pm
Midnight Your Time
by Adam Brace
***SECRET LOCATION***
Two extra performances now on sale
Night after night, Sheila sits by her computer, trying to Skype her peace-keeping daughter abroad. Each time she doesn’t show, Sheila is left with no choice but to leave her another video message.
Cast
Diana Quick
Writer
Adam Brace
Adam’s first professional play, Stovepipe, was performed as a world premiere at the 2008 HighTide Festival and transferred to London in collaboration with the National Theatre and the Bush Theatre. Since then, he has directed two Edinburgh comedy shows and is now working on play commissions for the National Theatre and the Bush Theatre.
Direction
Michael Longhurst
Michael Longhurst directed Adam’s play Stovepipe for the HighTide Festival 2008 and its subsequent London transfer in collaboration with the National Theatre and Bush Theatre (Sunday Times Theatre Event of the Decade list).
Other directing includes The Contingency Plan: On The Beach (Bush Theatre), dirty butterfly (Young Vic), 1 in 5 (Daring Pairings for Hampstead Theatre), New Voices: 24 Hour Plays (Old Vic), Gaudeamus (Arcola Theatre), Guardians (Pleasance Edinburgh and Theatre503), Cargo (Pleasance Edinburgh and Oval House Theatre), Doctor Faustus (Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham). Assistant Directing includes productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Court Theatre, Old Vic and Young Vic.
Michael was a director attached to the 2009 International Residency at the Royal Court Theatre. His awards include the Jerwood Directors Award, a Fringe First and a scholarship to the Central Film School where he directed his first short film Fog.
Sunday 2nd May 2010
New performance times due to popular demand
1.30pm
5pm
7.30pm