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The Brick and the Lucille Lortel Theatre’s Alcove New Play Development Program Present: Red Sky At Night
May 22
FREEThe Brick and the Lucille Lortel Theatre’s Alcove New Play Development Program present
Red Sky At Night
by Eve Leigh
May 22, 2023
7pm ET
Part of The Brick Digital Reading Series, via Zoom
This event is FREE but we ask that you consider making a tax-deductible donation to The Brick Theater HERE. Thank you.
Four immigrant women work in the financial centre of London, the old City. Unbenknownst to them, tonight is the night aliens invade the Earth.
Directed by Taylor Reynolds
Featuring
Gamze Ceylan
Allisha Edwards
Jacquiline Guillen
Zo Tipp
This reading will take place over Zoom.
Ticket buyers will be sent a link via email on the day of the reading. Ticket buyers will also be provided with a password protected video of the reading that can be viewed for two weeks, in the event they can not attend the reading live.
Eve Leigh
I am a writer for performance.
Plays include Salty Irina (upcoming – Paines Plough, August 2023); Wildfire Road (Sheffield
Theatres); Pinocchio (Unicorn Theatre); Flächenbrand (Theater Bonn); Midnight Movie (Royal
Court); While You Are Here (The Place/Dance East); The Trick (Bush Theatre, national tour);
Spooky Action at a Distance (Royal Court/RWCMD); The Curtain (Young Vic Taking Part); Stone
Face, and Silent Planet (both Finborough Theatre).
Games, installations, and digital works include words fail: a fortune-telling game (Coney); Ghost
Pine (Audible); The Delegation (Coney/Точка доступа); Invisible Summer (Royal Court);
Movimento/Variations (36 маймуни/Bulgarian National Theatre Festival); Your Future
(HAU/Sophiensaele/Ballhaus Ost/Camden People’s Theatre); A Short and Boring Story (Camden
People’s Theatre).
Residencies include Royal Court 2019 and 2017, Experimental Stage of the National Theatre of
Greece 2017, AIDF Teatr Polski Bydgoszcz 2016.
Awards include Berlin Theatertreffen Stueckemarkt selection 2021, Sarah Award for Audio Fiction
2020, Jerwood/Royal Court New Playwright Award 2019 (with Jasmine Lee-Jones), Women’s Prize
for Playwriting Finalist 2020, Bruntwood Prize shortlist 2019.
I am an associate artist at Coney.
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