Darwin Festival
On the Book: Fixer
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When terrorists attack an oil pipeline in Nigeria’s north, journalists, consultants, spin doctors and fixers swarm. Emerging UK Playwright Lydia Adetunji’s script is confronting, caustically funny and alarmingly relevant as pipelines increasingly criss-cross the Timor Sea towards Dili and Indonesia.
The Darwin Festival playreading series On the Book is the live theatre equivalent of your local book club, they offer an animated, rehearsed version of a theatre script. We put the writer, director and actors into a room for just a short time and invite you to witness the results.
On the Book features: Fixer | Mary Anne Butler Double Bill | Watermark | Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui
Date: Sun 15 August
Time: 3pm
Duration: 90 mins
Venue: Wesleyan Church, Botanic Gardens
Price: $10 at the door
Book in advance for all four playreadings for $30. Tickets to individual playreadings available at the door 30 minutes prior for only $10, if not already sold out.
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About Lydia Adetunji
One of "the brightest new stars in British political theatre" The Observer
Lydia won the Almeida Theatre's Write competition in 2006, and subsequently completed attachments to both the Royal Court and the National Theatre Studio. Her first full-length play FIXER premiered at the Hightide Festival in Suffolk in May last year. FIXER was also chosen as an outstanding example of intenational theatre at the National Play Festival in Brisbane, 2010.
Other work has included FLOOR 44 and TRICKSTER, both produced at the Young Vic as part of ATC's Play Size, CANTON KITTY, performed at the Globe, and HOT, a site-specific piece for the Oval House Theatre. She was also commissioned by Oran Mor in Glasgow to write a new play for the Play, Pie and a Pint season last year.
Lydia's noir script Necropolis was fourth on the 2008 Brit List, an industry poll of the best unproduced screenplays in the country. She was on Channel 4 / Paines Plough's Future Perfect 2008 scheme for emerging writers.
Lydia has been made Pearson Writer in Residence for Paines Plough where she is working on a new play. She is writing a short play as part of the Tricycle Theatre's WOMEN, POWER AND POLITICS season and a new full length commission for the same theatre. On screen she is developing an original thriller for TV with Bigger Pictures her film is under option to Stealth Films.
More information: www.rodhallagency.com
