What’s Up Doc? Plays 2015
Pictures of You
Written by Craig Baxter
Produced by Menagerie
Part of our What’s Up Doc? Series where playwrights are paired with Academic Collaborators
Collaborator: Dr Martina Di Simplicio of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge.
Inspired by the ‘mental imagery’, emotion and the study and treatment of bipolar disorder, Pictures of You presents the intriguing meeting of two friends after many years apart. Full of unexpected lightness, warmth and love, the play explores the challenge of recalling the past and picturing the future…
Craig is a Menagerie Associate Writer. He studied Zoology at Sheffield University and Playwriting at Birmingham University. His stage plays include St James and the Tattoo Man, Taking Liberties, The Ministry of Pleasure (published by Oberon Books), The Animals, Hard Sell, Big Bang (published by ARC Theatre Press), Let Newton Be! (a verbatim drama about Isaac Newton for the Faraday Institute) and The Altruists (a non-verbatim play about evolutionary biologists in the late 1960s/early 1970s). Also, he has adapted two of his plays for BBC Radio 4.
Pictures of You is informed by the work of Professor Emily Holmes and Dr Martina Di Simplicio of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge.
Pictures of You is a Professional Production produced by Menagerie
Thursday 9 July, 7pm – 7.45pm
Saturday 11, 9.15pm – 10.00pm
Cost: £5
* Free Question and Answer session in the foyer after the show on Thurs: 8pm – 8.30pm
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How to Cheat … And be a Winner
Written by Grace Knight
Collaborator: Dr Luke Tweedy – Post-Doctoral Research Scientist at the Beatson Institute
Part of our What’s Up Doc? Series where playwrights are paired with Academic Collaborators
Jo is a good person. She’ll tell you that herself. But, wherever you find co-operation, you find cheats: bacteria that just float to the top of the raft and look down on the rest as they work. And that’s fine… until the number of cheats gets way out of control.
Grace Knight is a playwright and author. Her most recent play, The Echo, was produced by Orpheos Productions in a sell-out run at the Camden Fringe Festival. Her short fiction has been published by Woman’s Weekly, Middlebrow Magazine and Leaf Publications.
For reviews of The Echo, click here
Doctor Luke Tweedy is a Post-Doctoral Research Scientist at the Beatson Institute, one of the UK’s largest Cancer Research Facilities. He is particularly interested in how cells move and make decisions.
How to Cheat is a Professional Production produced by Menagerie
Presented as a Script-in-Hand Performance double-bill with the play Fifteen
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Fifteen
Written by Sarah Davies
Collaborator: Professor Phillip Davies
Part of our What’s Up Doc? Series where playwrights are paired with academic collaborators
When Jenny was young, she didn’t believe in the number 15. She didn’t refuse to believe it existed, rather there was a gap in her brain where the number should have been. Presenting the fascinating world of the number dyslexic, Fifteen explores how numbers, sequences and the concept of time become other-worldly, baffling things.
Through collaboration with her father (and Maths whiz!), Professor Phillip Davies, dyscalculic playwright Sarah Davies sets out to explore the dichotomy between creative and logical thinking, and father daughter relationships through central character Jenny’s journey. Can Jenny use her creative and round-about thinking to solve a ‘great unanswered question’ that has baffled academia for years?
Fifteen is a Professional Production produced by Menagerie
Presented as a Script-in-Hand performance double-bill with the play How to Cheat…
Friday 10 July, 8.05pm – 9.05pm
Saturday 11 July, 10.30am – 11.30am
£5
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