ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Rory Mullarkey is among the UK’s most exciting and thought-provoking playwrights. With his first full-length play Cannibals, described by George Aza-Selinger as “a play of soaring originality, authenticity and ambition”, he became the youngest playwright to present a play on the main stage at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre. The Wolf from the Door, a wild road trip across Middle England, was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London and received the George Devine Award. Pity, his latest play, asks “whether things really are getting worse. And if we care”.
Extracts from these three plays will feature in the staged reading of Rory’s works taking place on 3rd February in the Teatro de la Abadía. Open to the public, the reading (moderated and simultaneously translated by Nacho Aldeguer and Luis Sorolla) will be followed by a Q&A with the playwright in which he’ll be discussing the vision and motivation behind his works before leading into a dialogue with the audience.
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Rory’s work has been the focus of the latest workshop in the season “Play & Breakfast”, a programme of month-long monographic workshops offering arts professionals and theatre enthusiasts the opportunity to learn more in detail about the latest tendencies in British drama, organized in Madrid by Bella Batalla, Esto Podría Ser and the Teatro de la Abadía in collaboration with the British Council / New UK Drama.
The first part of the 2019/2020 season of “Play & Breakfast” has focused on the dramatists Bola Agbaje, Terry Johnson and Ella Hickson.
Coming soon: Chris Goode, Alexi Kaye Campbell, Lucy Prebble and Patrick Marber.