May 30th

No show this week. it's Whitsun.

See you next week.

Eremenos

Monday May 23rd brings us a ninety minute stageplay called Eromenos by Nick Cheesman. It's had a rehearsed reading before, so it's probably even better than it was a year ago. I have since read it, and liked it a lot. Three interesting, vulnerable characters, neatly plotted, and good, pithy dialogue. Here's the gen:

"Fast approaching her 30th birthday Sheri decides to turn her life around down at the gym. Eromenos ignites the obsession modern society has about people and body size". 

7.30 at the North London Tavern.

****ed.com

Monday May 16th brings us the above titled stageplay by David Crook. What do the *s mean? Well you can make up your own minds. This is a family blog.

"What is the psychology behind recurring cycles of boom and bust in financial markets? What sucks people in and what are the human costs? A former charity worker with ideals becomes an aggressive hedge fund manager. The drama charts damage and disruption to those around him. Painful choices are made on a roller coaster ride through the market meltdown from 2000 up to the 2016 bubble driven by property prices. A lucid and comprehensible insight into the high stakes world of hedge fund speculators from the pen of an industry insider - and a highly successful one at that".

7.30 at the North London Tavern. 

Dreamboats and Petticoats - The TV series

Having welcomed so many new faces to Player Playwrights this year we felt let's throw a bit of a party for all members, actors, writers, audience and guests to meet and mingle after a reading of a new TV script by PP presidents Marks and Gran. BAFTA winning, "Living Legends" bring us the first episode of their newly penned TV adaptation of their hit show "Dreamboats and Petticoats". Songs and all! It'll be a great night. Come one come all.

7.30 at the North London Tavern.

May 2nd

No reading this week as it is a bank holiday. Enjoy the sunshine/rain.

The Last Man Club

Monday April 25th brings us a full length stage play by P-P newbie Ross Frowen. In The Last Man Club we are introduced to the dead; to those who died in the Great War and to those who passed away at home over the several decades between 1916 and 1983.
 

7.30 at the North London Tavern.

Don't Look Down

April 18th brings us a new play by a new writer to P-P, Giles Fernando. Giles may be new to us, but he isn't new to the stage, and has had short plays  been staged at the Cockpit, Tristan Bates, and the Canal Café Theatre. Don’t Look Down is a one-man comedy drama, taking a painfully funny look at the angst of hitting 40. 

"Max ends his relationship and quits his job. He lurches from toning up at the gym to embracing Vegas, but when the money runs out a future back home with Mum looms".

7.30 at the North London Tavern.