Papercut Theatre presents three, inventive monologues that speak to the racial, gender and social concerns of the present moment.
Tickets are Pay What You Can and all monies received will be split between Papercut Theatre, The Upsetters & Black Ticket Project.
A letter by Matilda Ibini, to be performed sight unseen by a different actor each performance. The play was commissioned as part of MY WHITE BEST FRIEND AND OTHER LETTERS LEFT UNSAID, first presented at The Bunker Theatre, London on 18th March 2019.
Matilda Ibini is a bionic playwright and screenwriter. Credits include: Unprecedented Series, Headlong/Century Films/BBC4. Little Miss Burden, Bunker Theatre. Choice and Control, Old Vic Theatre. Muscovado, UK tour. She has screen projects in development with BBC Films and Raw Productions.
Little Mermaid by Sarah Grochala
Rusalka has never felt at home in Odessa. The bright lights and the glamorous nightclubs have lost their appeal. When one of her clients, a gentle English man, gets himself into a tricky situation with the Russian Mafia, Rusalka rescues him and they fall deeply in love. Or so she thinks …
After a long and dangerous journey, Rusalka finds herself alone and abandoned in grey and rainy England. Can she win back her Prince Charming and secure the life of her dreams?
Sarah’s first play S-27 won the 2007 Protect the Human Playwriting Competition. S-27 premiered at the Finborough Theatre in June 2009 was revived by the Griffin Theatre in Sydney in 2010. In 2011, Sarah was the winner of OffWestEnd.com’s Adopt a Playwright Award for her play Smolensk. Her most recent play Star Fish was shortlisted for the 2016 Nick Darke Award and BBC Script Room 10. Her work has been supported and developed by the National Theatre Studio, RSC, the Orange Tree, Arts Council England, the Peggy Ramsay Foundation, the Orchard Project (USA) and the Studios Key West (USA). She is currently Course Leader on the MA/ MFA Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and writes audio-dramas set in the worlds of Dr Who for Big Finish.
Eggshells by Melissa Dunne
Performed sight-unseen by one brave actor, Melissa Dunne’s Eggshells is a genre-defying take on society’s complicity in the modern culture of sexual violence. A provocative riff on sex and violence, Eggshells has been seen at Arcola Theatre, Latitude Festival and The Assembly Festival, Edinburgh.
Melissa Dunne is a writer, director, dramaturg and lecturer. Her writing includes Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands Vault Festival 2020 ‘ stirring stuff, and is one of the stand-out shows of the VAULT Festival so far’ The Reviews Hub, ‘ ‘… a difficult but beautiful piece of theatre’ The Plays the Thing.
Produced by Papercut Theatre who brought the acclaimed Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands, Lola and Dangerous Lenses to Vault Festival. Papercut Theatre supports and facilitates development for new writers. They are committed to enhancing and developing the artistic process by actively interrogating the writer–director relationship at all stages.
Wednesday 29th July & Thursday 30th July
7pm, 7.30pm & 8pm
Tickets are PWYC register here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/papercut-goes-zoom-tickets-110976559878
