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THOM MAY
(1991 - )Nationality: English
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Thom May is an English playwright educated at Warwick and Cambridge. He has written for the National Youth Theatre and is an alumnus of both the Royal Court's Studio Group and Young Writer's Program. In 2014, his play "war war brand war" won the RSC/Marlowe Society 'Other' Prize. He currently lives in Upstate New York.
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Our Days Of Rage war war brand warOur Days Of Rage
Synopsis:
Directed by NYT's Artistic Director Paul Roseby, 'Our Days of Rage', is written in response to the uprisings across North Africa, the Middle East and Middle England and staged over the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Ten years on from 9/11, a generation of actors and writers brought up on fear will mark this anniversary with an urgent response to the unfolding Drama in North Africa, the Middle East and Middle England. UK students try their hand at anarchy while young Arabs fight for the right to protest and are willing to die for their cause. From an Arab Spring to another UK Winter of Discontent; the latest battle in the war on terror is coming to a department store near you.
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written by Natasha Collie, Karla Crome, Warren Drew, Joel MacCormack, Thom May, David Mumeni, Steve Rolling, Martin Stirling, Kirstie Swain; Director : Paul Roseby; Other : Philip Osment (Dramaturgy)
1st Produced:
Old Vic Tunnels, London 18 Aug 2011
Organisations:
National Youth Theatre of Great Britain
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Synopsis:
I feel like everything I do is a performance for lapel mics and security cameras. Like there's something in me which is the only real thing in the world and someone is trying to bleed it from me. A soldier comes home. A journalist loses his mind. An advertising firm markets a war. An adaptation of Aeschylus' Oresteia for a century of humanitarian intervention and marketised warfare, war war brand war interrogates family, war and tragedy in the internet age. As changed technologies and identical hubris lead nations into deadly wars with all of the relentlessness of the ticker tape that scrolls across the bottom of news channels and stock exchanges alike, one family's imbalance of power brings violence to an international arena. Intelligent, urgent and formally playful. . .the play demonstrates the emergence of a clear and confident dramatic voice - Pippa Hill, RSC
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1st Produced:
Corpus Playroom 18 Nov 2014
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Marlowe Society
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