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Rehearsed readings of brand new plays by the very best emerging playwrights. The Wire by Jim Sandler - Alex Cavendish likes counting floortiles and working in the local Turkish corner shop. He’s also a whizz at technology, so when his name gets linked to the creation of a website inciting terrorism, it looks like an open and shut case. Mum’s appalled but even she can’t get her son to talk. The Wire traces the fear, suspicion and confusion created when a young man within the autistic spectrum is mistaken for a fanatical terrorists. Jim Sadler is a new playwright based in Devon, and this is his second play. Directed by Madeleine Vose, Artistic Director of Theatre Upstairs, Exeter’s new writing theatre Wednesday 6th May. Herding Cats by Lucinda Coxon - A play about the lengths we go to in order to connect with other people, by acclaimed screenwriter and playwright Lucinda Coxon. Her hit plays include Happy Now? at the National Theatre (Writer’s Guild award, Best Play 2008) and Nostalgia at the Drum, Plymouth; screenplays include Heart of Me starring Olivia Williams and Helena Bonham-Carter and Wild Target starring Bill Nighy and Emily Blunt. Contains adult material Wednesday 3rd June An Ode to Adam by Chino Odimba - An Ode to Adam is a modern play about male relationships. We meet Leafy, aged seventeen, on the day of his mother’s funeral and follow his struggle to come to terms with his father, his past and the realities of what it really means to grow up and be counted. An Ode to Adam is the latest play by Chino Odimba, a Bristol based playwright whose first play, Women Embrace Two, was staged at Bristol Old Vic. Running time fro 70-90 minutes

Creatives/Company

Author(s): Jim Sandler (The Wire), Lucinda Coxon (Herding Cats), Chino Odimba (An Ode to Adam)
Director(s): Madeleine Vose (The Wire), Sita Calvert-Annals (An Ode to Adam)