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Book Tickets for XY in Edinburgh Now
Our writers were given a simple job. Write a short play without specifying gender for any of the characters. One play. No gender. Endless possibilities. A rotating line-up of 16 plays by writers from all over the world means XY is different every night.
PRAISE FOR XY
“…XY falls within this long tradition of original, challenging new plays.”
A Younger Theatre
“A clever production idea…kept the audience involved and interested throughout.” ★★★★ One Stop Arts
WRITERS
Alia Bano – Won the Charles Wintour award for most promising playwright at the Evening Standard Awards for her play SHADES as well as the Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for most promising playwright.
Gabriel Bisset-Smith – Was nominated for an Off West End most promising playwright award.
Rose Lewenstein – AIN’T NO LAW AGAINST FISH ‘N’ CHIPS, Royal Court Young Writer’s Festival Reading
Sara Pascoe – A highly sought after comedian and writer, Sara is presently developing many of her own TV and radio projects
Stephen Sharkey – THE MAY QUEEN Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI Liverpool Playhouse/ Nottingham Playhouse
Jessica Sian – KLIPPIES Hightide Festival
Peter Cant * Lisa Carroll * Afsaneh Gray * Eve Leigh * German Munoz * Rebecca Walker * Tobias Wright * Kim Yaged * John Yates
PRODUCER Amanda Castro
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Melissa Dunne
STAGE MANAGER Sarah Pujol
DIRECTORS
Poppy Corbett * Erica Miller * Tom Mansfield * Antonio Ferrara * Matthew Evans
New plays are important. Creating them is important. This is why we support new writers with a view to developing them as artists rather than expecting them to deliver a product. We are committed to enhancing and developing the process by which plays are created, directed and produced. We actively interrogate the writer/director relationship and value work at all stages of the creative process not just fully realised productions.
In the Press
Woman’s Hour – Listen to Phyllida Lloyd and Melissa Dunne talk gender blind casting
BBC Radio 4
The Mundane Illuminated – Interview with Papercut Artistic Director Melissa Dunne
Snipe
“…XY falls within this long tradition of original, challenging new plays.”
A Younger Theatre
“A clever production idea…kept the audience involved and interested throughout.”
★★★★ One Stop Arts
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