Featured Playwright
Miss Melissa Dunne
About Me: Melissa is a director, writer and dramaturg for theatre. Her work explores social inequality and intersectional feminism. Directing credits include Lola, ‘Crisply staged with a good eye for spatial tension by Melissa Dunne’ Lyn Gardner, Stagedoor’ and Dangerous Lenses, both at Vault Festival, Makeshifts and Realities (Winner Best Ensemble at London Pub Theatres Awards), Masterpieces and Just to Get Married by Cicely Hamilton, all at Finborough Theatre. Praise for Just to Get Married; Susannah Clapps 'Best Theatre of 2017' 'Staged with wit and efficiency by Melissa Dunne.’ Ben Brantley, The New York Times ★★★★ Evening Standard ★★★★ The Times ★★★★ The Observer. Recent Writing includes Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands at Vault Festival 2020, Reviews Hub 4.5 stars "This is stirring stuff, and is one of the stand-out shows of the Vault Festival so far." She is Artistic Director of Papercut Theatre. She is a Lecturer at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama where she teaches on the MA Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media. She has read scripts for the National Theatre, Bush theatre, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Graeae Theatre and Verity Bargate Award and the Soho Theatre among others.
Featured Play
Eternity
After the Great Battle (Mankind calls the Big Bang) between the Prince of Darkness, Lord Set, and the Lord of Light, the Universe is left fragmented, and those beings on these different islands in space come together with Ult to discuss their fears and concerns about the changing strange skies and disturbing behaviour of the Billowings, violent storms in outer space. There is no eternal life, and the Fragmentarians are dissipating before their time with no new life being formed. All become silent when they are visited by the great Crystal, who offers them eternal life and demonstrates the process and its meaning. Many take eternal life, but some refuse through fear. It is the fear of eternity which is the subject of much debate within the play.
Playwright: Hedley Griffin