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Ben Weatherill

BEN WEATHERILL

  
Nationality:    British
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Playwright Ben Weatherill trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and was part of the Royal Court Theatre's Young Writer's Programme and Invitation Only Group. Ben is currently the Literary Manager at the Old Red Lion Theatre, as well as Playwright-in-Residence at Curve Leicester. Chicken Dust is Ben's professional debut. His play Tastes like Chicken was longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize 2013 and his short play The Next Five Years was seen at Theatre503. His first television pilot, Scorned, reached the final stage of BBC WritersRoom Script Room 7 competition. Subsequently, Ben was invited to join the Skylight group at this year's BBC Writer's Festival.

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         Chicken Dust         Chronic         Jellyfish         Next Five Years, The         Tastes Like Chicken
Chicken Dust

Chicken Dust
A chicken farm in rural England. New boy Tim has just arrived for his first shift. The job is pretty simple: grab chickens seven at a time by their legs and ram them into cages for shipping. All of this in the dark, stomping around in ankle deep chicken shit, muck and mud. His teammates are old-timers, with cigarettes dangling from their lips and pantyhose up their arms to protect their skin. Feathers cling to clothes. This band of survivors don't want much: just to stay in the countryside, catch the chickens, and earn the best living they can. But the chickens are dying, rotting from the inside out like hot fruit just hours after they arrive. As disease spreads and pressure mounts, enter Oscar, the meticulous poultry inspector. . . A hard hitting exploration of the human cost of our enormous appetite for cheap meat.

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Chicken Dust won the Curve Leicester Playwriting Competition, whose judges included Finborough Theatre Artistic Director Neil McPherson, and was also supported by IdeasTap, Writing East Midlands and BBC WritersRoom. The play has been developed through Curve's annual Inside Out programme and festival, created and curated by Associate Director Suba Das, and dedicated to nurturing the very best talent from the region. The play was further developed by the Finborough Theatre in a staged reading at Vibrant 2014  A Festival of Finborough Playwrights

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Chronic

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part of "Courting Drama". Eight handpicked writers and directors speed date' to find a new collaborative partner that will help them bring a 20 minute piece of new writing to life.

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Jellyfish

Jellyfish
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Kelly has Downs Syndrome. She is becoming an adult and her mother cannot cope. Kelly meets Neil and they fall in love. Kelly and Neil now have to fight to be together

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Next Five Years, The

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Tastes Like Chicken

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longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize 2013

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