Details | Rehearsals
“Absolutely brilliant. I will definitely be looking for more of Reboot’s work”
London Theatre Club
DIRECTED BY FRANCISKA ERY
at the Bunker Theatre in London
Monday 16 & Monday 23 April 2018
From 622 submissions, Reboot Theatre Company has selected 6 knockout pieces from emerging international writing talent, which explore the fragility of human relationships and the challenges of making enduring connections in this ever-changing and sometimes dystopian world.
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Something from Nothing
By Lynn-Steven Johanson
A man and a woman wake to find they are in some bizarre, black void with no walls, doors or windows.
Less than 3
By Tom Kinney
The dating agency that found George his long-term girlfriend wants to give him the good news. They’ve found him a better match.
Modern Art
By Joe Laredo
Modern art – what does it mean? What does it tell us about our lives? More to the point, are we prepared to learn from it? And if we’re not, might it teach us a lesson anyway?
Meet the Pets
By Tracey Jane Smith
Nothing goes to plan when a player brings home his new people-pleaser girlfriend to meet ‘them’: Daisy and Mr. Cuddles.
But that’s Okay
By Jenny Mead
We open in a bar. Jeff and Jane meet. They fall in love. The rest, of course, is — their entire history together.
Work
By Jerusha Green
“In my dreams there are nails in everything
They are floating in the sky like jellyfish
They are penetrating the world
Fixing Nothing”
“strong performances supported by fantastic direction”
ABOUT THE WRITERS
LYNN-STEVEN JOHANSON
Lynn-Steven Johanson is a playwright living in the United States. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and works at Western Illinois University. His plays have won numerous awards, and they have been produced in New York, Los Angeles, and numerous cities throughout the U.S. as well as in the U.K., India, New Zealand, and Australia. He is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America.
TOM KINNEY
Tom Kinney is a writer from Liverpool. He is on this year’s Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse theatres’ Playwrights’ Programme where he is writing his first full-length play. He is currently finishing his PhD in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh – looking into the social inequalities around cultural activities in early childhood.
JOE LAREDO
Joe is obsessed with writing plays. Last year, he completed eight plays and started two more – lasting from three minutes to two hours, in various genres (comedy, drama, melodrama, musical, tragedy …) and with various cast sizes (from 2 to 13). His “day job” is copy-editing, proofreading and translating (from French). He recently translated the French children’s classic Le Petit Prince and his translation of Albert Camus’ L’Étranger was the standard version for over 30 years. Joe is also a pianist and will give a recital of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces in Milton Keynes on the composer’s 175th birthday (15th June).
TRACEY JANE SMITH
Tracey Jane Smith is an emerging Central Florida-based stage storyteller whose work has also appeared in Orlando, Miami, New York, Dallas, and Los Angeles. A freelance copywriter and mom of two, her QUICKIES by Tracey Jane Smith, “Four-plays of love, longing and…you know” was a sold-out show winner at the 2017 Orlando International Fringe Festival and selected as a “Best of the Fest”. Theatre is her therapy.
JENNY MEAD
Jenny has had numerous short plays produced at various theaters in Charlottesville, VA, New York, Connecticut, Minnesota, California, Mexico (March 2018), and London (April 2018). Several of her plays have won Audience Favorite Awards. A former Hollywood executive, journalist and English teacher, Jenny lives in Charlottesville where she is mother to a basset hound and writes business ethics case studies at the University of Virginia.
JERUSHA GREEN
Jerusha Green was born and bred in Manchester, studied Scriptwriting and Performance at the University of East Anglia and moved to London shortly after graduating. She was a member of the Royal Court’s young writers group and invitation studio group (2014/15). Credits include: a rehearsed reading of Recreation (Arcola Theatre) 2015; a sharing of Are We There Yet (Pleasance Theatre Islington) 2016; and an adaptation of Frankenstein for young actors (Magdalen College School, Oxford) 2017.
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