Winter 2012 Season
Papatango New Writing Festival 2012 Runner Up
Please note the new earlier start time for Everyday Maps for Everyday Use - 6.15pm and 1.15pm
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★★★★ Four Stars, The Arts Desk
★★★★ Four Stars, Everything Theatre
★★★★ Fours Stars, The Upcoming
“I don’t think we’ll get to Mars…not really…not normal people. Scientists might…it’ll end up a scientific outpost like Antarctica…but it won’t be for people like you and me.”
Maggie has found a warm patch of ground on Horsell Common. She believes something is buried in the dirt. This is the site of the Martian invasion in H G Wells' The War of the Worldsand she sneaks out of the house in the dead of night and dances on the warm spot. Here she meets Behrooz, an amateur astronomer who spends his nights mapping the surface of Mars.
Cartographer John is remapping the streets of Woking. He's about to become a father and is terrified by the thought. He finds an ally in Corinne, Maggie's mother - a woman struggling to keep her sex life separate and secret from her daughter.
Kiph, who everyone thinks is gay, its madly in love with Maggie, his best-friend. He attends a book signing to meet his hero, Richard Bleakman - star of cult 80s sci-fi show John Carter of Mars. Richard has problems of his own.
A stunning new play about fantasy and sexuality, and about the blurry and indistinct lines between reality and desire.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT TOM MORTON-SMITH
Playwright Tom Morton-Smith’s plays include Salt Meets Wound (Theatre503), In Doggerland (Box of Tricks at Theatre503), Venison (Yellowtale Theatre Company at The Hawth, Crawley), Uncertainty (Sincera Productions at Latitude Festival) andThe Hygiene Hypothesis (Sincera Productions at Latitude Festival). He collaborated with composer Jon Nicholls on a play with music, Blunderbuss (The Theatre, Chipping Norton). He wrote an episode of BBC Radio 7’s Man In Black series, entitled Flesh. He has had short plays and rehearsed readings performed at The Old Vic, the Hampstead Theatre, the Soho Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre, Trafalgar Studios, the Liverpool Everyman, the Southwark Playhouse, the Arcola Theatre and Shakespeare's Globe. He was writer-in-residence at Paines Plough in 2007-08. He is currently under commission to the Royal Shakespeare Company.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR BECKIE MILLS
Director Beckie Mills' work at the Finborough Theatre includes Love on the Dole and I Was a Beautiful Day (and its subsequent transfer to the Tron Theatre, Glasgow). Other direction includes Romeo and Juliet (Pendley Shakespeare Festival), Hired (Nabokov Present: Tense at Watford Palace Theatre), Practice, A Play with Music (Royal Shakespeare Company Projects at the Young Vic), Heath/Cliff (Royal Shakespeare Company Projects), Cabaret, Alice in Wonderland, Fear and Misery in the Third Reich (Bristol Old Vic Youth Theatre), Over the Edge (Bristol Zoo Gardens), The End of the World as We Know It (Lightship John Sebastian for Bristol Old Vic), Write Here Write Now (Bristol Old Vic Studio), The Melancholy Hussar (King’s Head and Etcetera Theatre), Cahoot’s Macbeth (King’s Head Theatre) and Alban, a community opera (St Alban’s Cathedral and St Alban, the Martyr, Holborn). Assistant Direction includes The Taming of the Shrew (Royal Shakespeare Company), Don John (Royal Shakespeare Company and Kneehigh) and Hedda Gabler (Theatre Royal Bath and Tour). She is also a visiting director at Central School of Speech and Drama, an Associate Education Practitioner at the Royal Shakespeare Company, and has read scripts and developed new work with several theatres and companies including The Tron, The Young Vic and the Royal Shakespeare Company
ABOUT THE CAST
Film includes V for Vendetta, Ana Begins, Finding Joy and Papadopoulos and Sons.
THE PRESS ON EVERYDAY MAPS FOR EVERYDAY USE
“An evening of ebullience with moments of wonder” Jessica Edwards, A Younger Theatre
“Deliciously funny” Heather Neill, The Arts Desk
“Beckie Mills' production picks up on all the humour in Morton-Smith's script” Partially Obstructed View
“Intelligent new play... Skilfully directed by Beckie Mills, this intriguing new play is funny and shocking but also touching, performed by an outstanding cast” Carolin Kopplin, UK Theatre Network
“A crisply written piece, brave” Heather Neill, The Arts Desk
“Beautiful, startling passages of writing” Natasha Tripney, The Stage
“Skye Lourie gives a fantastic performance” Partially Obstructed View
“Fascinating... Skye Lourie’s subtle yet moving portrayal of the confused and troubled teenager Maggie was great to watch” Sarah Lines, The Good Review
“A compelling central performance from Skye Lourie” Catherine Love, Time Out
“Michael Kirk is excellent” Carolin Kopplin, UK Theatre Network
“Brilliant – tightly-constructed, familiar and truthful” Jessica Edwards, A Younger Theatre
“Director Beckie Mills keeps it bubbling at a great pace” Heather Neill, The Arts Desk
“A multi-layered piece with no easy answers that entertains even as it sometimes disturbs” Partially Obstructed View
TICKETS AND TIMES
Tuesday, 4 December – Saturday, 22 December 2012
Please note the new earlier start time for Everyday Maps for Everyday Use - 6.15pm and 1.15pm
Tuesday to Saturday evenings at 6.15pm.
Sunday matinees at 1.15pm.
Tickets £14, £10 concessions
except Tuesday evenings £10 all seats, and Saturday evenings £14 all seats.
PLEASE NOTE THAT LATECOMERS CANNOT BE ADMITTED AND TICKETS CANNOT BE EXCHANGED OR REFUNDED.
Running Time: 90 minutes with no interval
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PRODUCTION TEAM
Directed by Beckie Mills
Designed by Olivia Altaras
Lighting by Neill Brinkworth
Sound by Paul Gavin
Costume by Gabriella Slade
Presented by the Papatango New Writing Festival in partnership with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre.
CAST
MICHAEL KIRK 
SKYE LOURIE
MONCEF MANSUR
COSIMA SHAW
MICHAEL SHELFORD 
HARRY LISTER SMITH
