The Man

The centrepiece of Vibrant 2010 – An Anniversary Festival of Finborough Playwrights

Award-winning Playwright-in-Residence James Graham reunites with former Finborough Theatre Associate Director Kate Wasserberg to present a blackly comic and uniquely interactive storytelling event – a different actor, telling a story in a different order, selected at random, every single night.

Tax is really, really taxing for Ben Edwards. Self Employed. And afraid…

And now he must face his dreaded self assessment form, with every receipt evoking the good times and the bad – memories of things gone wrong, gone right, the journeys he’s been on, the relationships that have begun and ended and the people he has lost…

With each receipt drawn out at random, Ben begins to stitch together the patchwork quilt that was the Tax Year 2009/2010 – a year that was both hilarious and tragic, all mixed up in one shoe box of receipts.

“They’re a record of what we buy? Aren’t they? And what we buy says, you know, a lot about, you know, a lot about … who we are. What we…erm. Value. What we need.”

The Man is performed by a changing team of actors. Please see our website, Facebook and Twitter for the latest casting information.

First tried out as a reading in last year’s Vibrant! A Festival of Finborough Playwrights when it was performed by the playwright himself, The Man is part of Vibrant 2010 – An Anniversary Festival of Finborough Playwrights, a 30th anniversary celebration of the Finborough Theatre with thirty new works for the stage by thirty UK and international playwrights, discovered, developed or championed by the Finborough Theatre, all performed in four weeks, and featuring many premieres of brand new plays by some of the well-known playwrights who began their careers at the Finborough Theatre.