Ignition returns for its third year; the spark for extraordinary new theatre. This year’s contributors are some of the UK’s most thrilling talent.
Writers include Che Walker (Been So Long and Frontline), Jack Thorne (Skins, When You Cure Me and Fanny and Faggot) and Gbolahan Obisesan (Jerwood Award winner 2009). Directors include Ria Parry, Laura Kriefman, Sam Miller and Polly Findlay. They will be working with some of the UK’s best know actors of stage and screen including Sheila Reid (The Winter Guest and A Room With A View), Marion Bailey (Vera Drake and I’ll Be There), Johnny Harris (London to Brighton) and Omar Lyefook (Che Walker’s Been So Long).
Three Ignitions every night: fired by the adrenalin of stepping into the unknown. Last year Ignition generated an amazing strike rate of work including the Fringe First Award winning play Crush by Paul Charlton.
Confirmed contributors include Jack Thorne and Hamish Pirie;
Che Walker working with Omar Lyefook;
Tim Price and Polly Findlay;
Lydia Adetunji and Laura Farnworth;
Jon Cooper and Sam Miller;
Kenny Emson and Laura Kriefman; Gbolahan Obisesan and Ria Parry;
Tim Cowbury and Alice Lacey;
Gareth Farr and John Hoggarth;
Jack Thorne: Jack’s plays for stage include When You Cure Me (Bush Theatre), Stacy (Arcola and Trafalgar Studios), Fanny and Faggot (Finborough and Trafalgar Studios) and Burying Your Brother In The Pavement (NT Connections). His work for television includes episodes of Skins, Shameless, and, up-coming, Cast-Offs (Channel 4, co-written with Tony Roche and Alex Bulmer) and This Is England (Channel 4, co-written with Shane Meadows). Hamish Pirie: Writing includes His Ghostly Heart (Bush Theatre) and Stacy(Arcola Theatre) and Ravenhill For Breakfast (Traverse, Edinburgh). Che Walker: Winner of the George Devine Award, his recent success’ include Been So Long (Young Vic, Traverse Theatre) and Frontline at the Globe (directed by Matthew Dunster). Tim Price: Work includes Under The Sofa (Paines Plough) Secret Diary of a Call Girl (Series 1 and 2), His television series Y Pris won Best Drama at the Celtic Film Festival in 2009.
Polly Findlay: Polly was the winner of the 2007 JMK Award for Young Directors, and was the recipient of the 2006/7 Bulldog Princeps Bursary at the National Theatre. Lydia Adetunji: Lydia won the Almeida Theatre's Write competition in 2006, and subsequently completed attachments to both the Royal Court and the National Theatre Studio. Her first full-length play Fixer premiered at the Hightide Festival in Suffolk in May this year. Jon Cooper: For Once I Was Tristan bates Theatre, UK/US Exchange winner, supported by the Peggy Ramsey Foundation. Kenny Emson: winner of the UK/US Exchange 2009 with premières at the Hotbed Festival (Cambridge) and Hotink Festival (New York) and venues across London.
Laura Kriefman: A director and choreographer, Laura’s work includes the National Tour of Slavery, by Jonathan Payne for Tara Arts, Oh Whats A Lovely War for the Royal Academy of Music and was a finalist for the BluePrint Choreography Bursary. Gbolahan Obisesan: A writer and director who has described as ‘personifying the future of Contemporary British Theatre’ He is the Bulldog Princep Directors Bursary Recipient 2008 - 2009 at the National Theatre Studio and the recipient of the 2009 Jerwood Directors Award at the Young Vic. Alice Lacey: is the director and curator of the Midnight Monologues, a new series of site specific, one-on-one monologues (Tristan Bates Theatre, Latitude Festival) and was chosen to participate as a director in this year 24hr plays. Tim Cowbury: was a participant in this years 24hr plays, his other work includes Stationary Excess (Shunt Vaults, September 2009, in collaboration with performer Jessica Latowicki) and Pass It On (Soho Theatre, 2008).
