The Death of Molly Miller is an intense and pitch black comedy-drama exploring inequality, social media fame, gambling addiction and Wagamamas. In this witty, intense duologue we meet Tommy who at 20s-year-old is working class, socio-economically alienented and blighted by an addiction to online gambling with a significant debt owed to a dangerous loan shark.
Tommy’s ill thought-through solution – to burgle local successful social media influencer Molly Miller – quickly spirals into an unplanned hostage situation as the stakes rise for this working-class anti-hero and his modern-day internet celebrity captive.
Writer Matthew Greenhough has recently broken through as a fresh voice in both Radio and TV. A former member of the BBC Drama Room, his audio version of ‘The Death of Molly Miller’ will be his first official broadcast credit premiering on BBC R4 in July, before the live version hits the Edinburgh Fringe
Matthew is a self-professed “loud mouthed working class Northerner with a lot to say” and a long term champion of working class representation on stage. His signature style is writing about serious, imperative, and significant issues through dark, character led stories influenced by his own background. He has been awarded The Peggy Ramsay Foundation grant and The Live Theatre Bursary for innovative approaches to story-based performance.
