I’m beyond excited that my new play ALAN HAS LEFT THE CHAT will be making its professional debut at INK Festival in Halesworth, Suffolk from 11th - 14th April 2024.
It’s a huge honour that my play is being performed at the festival’s biggest venue - The Cut - and is being expertly stewarded to the stage by director Sally Broach and cast Julian Harries, Joe McArdle and Charlotte Parry. As a proud East Anglian, it’s especially sweet to be a part of this unique showcase for new writing talent.
This will be my first time at INK Festival - both as an attendee and as a writer - and I’m looking forward enormously to heading to heavenly Halesworth and enjoying the enticing menu of new writing on offer. My association with INK goes back to 2020, when I was lucky enough to have my one-minute monologue, ‘Instagran’, selected by the INK team and brilliantly brought to life by Jill Freud for BBC Radio. You can watch the piece here.
Now in its 8th edition and driven by the creative vision of Artistic Director Julia Sowerbutts, INK is the UK’s leading producer of original short plays and boasts an illustrious roll call of supporters and contributors, including Richard Curtis, Esther Freud, Helen Atkinson-Wood, John Boyne, Blake Morrison, Libby Purves, Miranda Hart, Arthur Smith and many more. Since 2014, INK has produced and performed an incredible more than 500 new plays for stage and radio.
I absolutely love the fact that INK holds a special Youth Festival Day (this year on Monday 15th April) so that local secondary school students can see the short plays for free and experience the thrill of live theatre. Equitable access to theatre and writing for performance is so important, so hats off to INK for leading the way with such a fantastic initiative.
You can find the full INK Festival 2024 programme online and tickets for all four days are on sale now.