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Disfunction
Here and below. Maureen Carr, Maureen Beattie and Betty Valenica. Photo: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan.
Home entertainment has never been so good. So old school. So dangerous…
Two sisters have been playing and perfecting their secret sibling game for decades. Now in their sixties, and about to lose their home, it’s time to unleash the family fun on the world. But can their relationships survive what they’re about to do? Will their home even be worthing saving by the end of it?
Disfunction is a brutal comedy about a family ripping itself apart to find the truth within and how far anyone might go for the financial security they crave.
Commissioned and presented by Play, Pie and a Pint at Oran Mor, Glasgow and the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh; 16th - 28th October 2023. Directed by Lu Kemp and starring Maureen Beattie, Maureen Carr and Betty Valencia. Assistant Director Scott Miller.
Bowen's script is twisty and shocking but peppered with humour and wit…The casting is a real treat…two iconic Maureen's with Beattie and Carr - both powerhouse performers; Betty Valencia is excellent as Tanya….a funny and fresh piece of new writing.
Broadway World ****
The Glasgow Times interviewed Maureen Beattie during rehearsals, click here to read. Visit the Press page for more reviews.
Close Quarters
Chloe-Ann Tylor and Sophie Melville. Photo: Mark Douet. Below: Adiza Shardow
Close Quarters imagines the experiences of the first generation of women allowed to join the British infantry. Four young soldiers stationed on the tense border of Estonia and Russia are tested to their limits when a routine night time patrol turns into an extreme situation - with far reaching consequences.
First produced by Stockroom (previously Out of Joint) and Sheffield Theatres in 2018, directed by Kate Wasserberg, and named by The Observer as one of their top ten theatre productions of the year.
‘Bowen’s intelligent, dramatic script is dynamically delivered by a crack theatre squad: set it in your sights’ - The Guardian ****
'A measured portrait of women in the military... ribald and often very funny' - The Stage ***
Creative Team: Director - Kate Wasserberg / Designer - Max Jones / Lighting Designer - Sarah Jane Shiels / Composer & Sound Designer - Dyfan Jones / Dramaturg - Catriona Craig / Fight & Movement Directors - Rachel Bown-Williams & Ruth Cooper-Brown from RC Annie.
Cast: Sergeant John Adeyemi - Bradley Banton / Private Clare Davies - Sophie Melville / Captain Anna Sands - Kathryn O’Reilly / Private Sarah Findlay - Adiza Shardow / Private Alison Cormack - Chloe-Ann Tylor / Lance Corporal Brian Armstrong - Dylan Wood.
The Prize Fighter
A five minute monologue produced by Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. A woman waits white knuckled in a bar for her lover. She’s got five minutes to decide his fate, and hers.
The Lawyers
A Three Minute Thursday piece for Play, Pie and a Pint, Glasgow. A maverick lawyer begins to see herself the way other people do when she comes into conflict with her only friend.
Television:
Storm Warning
A thriller about the kind of family you have to escape from to survive, set in Scotland in the mountainous Highlands and the city streets of Glasgow. Sixty minute television pilot developed in 2021 with Elaine Collins and Clare Batty of Tod Productions for the BBC.