The Brick and the Lucille Lortel Theatre’s Alcove New Play Development Program Present:
Red Sky At Night
May 22
FREE
The 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 Lortel Digital Reading Series, via Vimeo
This event is FREE but we ask that you consider making a tax-deductible donation to The Brick Theater HERE, or to the Lucille Lortel Theatre 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 Vimeo.
Audience members will be sent a link via email on the day of the reading. Audience members 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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