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Featured Playwright
Ivan Faute
About Me: My productions include Lost Sock Laundry (UP Theater), The Dog Show (The Players Theatre), the OffFest recommended On Arriving (Searchout) in London, and City Lit Art of Adaptation Festival winner “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Elephant: A Comedy was named a finalist in the Award of Excellence in Playwriting by the ATHE. Lost Sock Laundry received the OnStage! Festival Award and is available in an Italian translation. My fiction appears in various journals and anthologies and named a finalist for the Calvino Prize.
Featured Play
Life Stories
The play is a form of verbatim theatre, with five characters in their late 80s, who are fictional, but drawn by blending people and stories from the Tavistock Area Support Services oral history collection. Originally to be a live drama for amateur theatre company The Tavonians, due to Coronavirus it became an audio drama recorded during self-isolation and lockdown. My role was to write the script, drawing on ideas from other members of the company, and including original phrasing from the records wherever possible. Five local octogenarians, with very varied life stories, find themselves seated together at a cream tea, having won a charity raffle. As the conversation unfolds, the three women and two men find points of connection on topics ranging from milking to air raids, and places from Malaya to the local river.
Playwright: Kit Walkham