The bathroom is the place where we are most vulnerable and exposed, a space in which we are mostly alone; where we do the things that we don't want anyone else to see. But, in their tiny bathroom, ...
This latest play by Jack Thorne (Skins, Cast-offs, This is England '86 and This Is England '88), specially commissioned by new writing company DryWrite, is about a couple in their late twenties and ...
Is nothing sacred? Jack Thorne’s play, set in the small modern bathroom of Marion and Dave, certainly suggests it isn’t. Everything is bared – metaphorically, and literally – for the audience in the ...
LONDON — Marian and David are sharing their lives, their thoughts, a bottle of wine and a bath. They strip and jump into the steamy water, where they laugh, squabble and fight. They’re the ...
The DryWrite company likes to set its authors intriguing challenges. For example, to test the degree to which it is possible to simulate the authentic voice, it once gave a group of dramatists the ...
A SERIES of close encounters of the theatrical kind are being played out that provide a detailed map of the human heart and the opposing emotions we confront, from hope and longing (which also happen ...
The first time I saw Phoebe Waller-Bridge at London's Soho theatre, she was naked and stepping into a bath. The play was Mydidae: a rapier-sharp two-hander by Jack Thorne about a long-term couple ...
Even intimacy has its limits. That may not be your first impression of David and Marian, though, a couple who seem to observe very few boundaries. In their bathroom, they share their morning routine ...
New Welsh theatre company OtherLife have recently announced that its debut production will be Mydidae by Jack Thorne, which will run 22 May - 2 Juneat Cardiff's pub theatre The Other Room, located in ...
It can take years of hard slog - often for little money - to become a stage director, but just months after graduating, Belfast's Rhiann Jeffrey has already found herself stepping into the role she ...