CAST Tam Karen Alanna/Nikki Tollman
the bridge
NEIL BRATCHPIECE VIVIEN GRAHAME CAT GROZIER MARK KYDD
Directed by ......................................... Wendy Miller Design ............................................ Claire Halleran Lighting ................................................ Bruce Benzie Production Manager ....................... Neil B Anderson Produced by ................................... Steven Thomson 8 8 8 HOW do you juggle bad kissing, punishment exercises and parents laying down the law when what you really need (like right now LOL) is to blast your tunes? For some teenagers that stuff is just the start - a few wrong turns is all it takes for your life to spiral out of control. How do we cross the bridge into adulthood and why do some of us never make it? Roots, role models, choices and consequences; living your life like there’s no tomorrow. Wendy Miller and Rachel Amey present a thoughtprovoking new play about four characters seeking hope in one of the darkest of places.
“Three people who met by chance - all tangled up - all pulling apart. If that isn’t a definition of a family, I don’t know what is.” The Tollman of the Bridge shares snapshots of Karen, Alanna and Tam’s lives - all linked to the missing girls. 8 8 8
A Glasgay! Commission & World Premiere
BY WENDY MILLER & RACHEL AMEY Directed by Wendy Miller The Arches 26-30 October 2010
BIOGRAPHIES WENDY MILLER was until 2008 a prolific journalist with the Herald and Times group. She wrote her first full play in 2009 entitled Even In Another Time, which was staged as a boutique, emergent artists production as part of Glasgay 2009. She offers a contemporary voice with an witty insight into the female condition. She is also known as performance poet, Wendy’s poetry collection In Love With My Accountant was published in 2008. Recent performances have included Hidden Cities 5 and an Amnesty campaign launch at the Scottish Parliament. She is also one half of live art collective Monosyllabic. RACHEL AMEY is a writer and performer based in Edinburgh. Previous writing for theatre includes forum theatre piece The Whistleblower (Birds of Paradise), performed readings of work for development projects Playgirls and Colours of the Chameleon (Traverse), Skincare and Threading the Needle (solo shows for Girl’s Best Friend) and co -writer for Eggshell Blues (Skulduggery). In devised/collaborative work she has contributed text for many diverse projects including Mime Forum, Nothing ever Burns Down/Black Sun over Genoa (Theatre Workshop), Commedia comes to Town (Charioteer), and Chrystal and the General (Portal). She regularly writes and performs poetry/spoken word and - with the support of Confab- plans to tour her new solo piece Where have I come from? Where are we going? which premiered at Arches Live 2010.
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