This year's Platform 18 Award winning productions. Read more …
Winner Kieran Hurley--Beats: "How can the government stop young people having a good time? Fight this bollocks." The Prodigy
In 1994 the Criminal Justice Act effectively outlawed raves, banning public gatherings around amplified music characterised by "the emission of a succession of repetitive beats.
Soundtracked by DJ Johnny Whoop, Beats is a new monologue piece, a coming-of-age story exploring rebellion, apathy, and the irresistible power of gathered youth. With techno. Lots of techno.
Winner Gary Gardiner--Thatcher's Children: "So they are casting their problems on society and who is society? there is no such thing! There are individual men and women."
You are hereby invited to the House of Commons (well as close to it as we could fathom) to celebrate the life and times of the right honerable Baroness Thatcher. What a woman, what a leader and what a vrole model for our young men!
Thatcher's Children is a high energy physical performance exploring the notion of society and questioning the ability of someone to lead one, if it indeed does not exist.
Thatcher's Children (2 Stars) and Beats (4 Stars)
Thatcher's Children (3 Stars) and Beats (4 Stars)
For an award that champions “new direction” in Scottish playwriting, choosing two pieces that hark back to the 80s and 90s as winners might seem, on the face of it, a tad incongruous.
Thatcher's Children (3 Stars) and Beats (4 Stars)
Beats is a poignant reminder of when music represented something subversive - not just a Madonna wannabe in a meat dress.
'She changed things for ever'
Interview: Kieran Hurley on the making of Beats
The Arches, Glasgow from Wednesday April 18, 2012, until Sunday April 22, 2012. More info: www.thearches.co.uk
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh from Wednesday April 25, 2012, until Saturday April 28, 2012. More info: www.traverse.co.uk