Bones

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A gripping black comedy by an award-winning new voice from the North East

It's the 1960s and we're in the back of a porn cinema in Gateshead, North East England. Young Abel Stein takes a dislike to a cockney punter called Reg, knocks him out with a plastic charity collection box and stuffs him in a cupboard. As Abel, his brother and two associates keep watch over Reg, the grapevine informs them that the Krays are in town. What do you do when you've inadvertently kidnapped England's most scary man And what will you do when his infamous and psychotic twin brother comes looking for him BONES is co-produced by Live Theatre Newcastle and Hampstead Theatre, London in February 2002.

Praise for previous work: "a tenderly lyrical charmer ... this felt like the most profound lesson about life. Straughan's drama was a piercing portrait of a life of rare promise and sadness cut dramatically short. Lorca's body was never found, but his spirit was briefly recovered here" - The Guardian

"Inescapably haunting ... Remember the author's name" - Financial Times

Winner of a 1997 Northern Writers Award, a CP Taylor award for playwriting and an Alfred Bradley award for radio

Author Bio

Peter Straughan was writer-in-residence at Live Theatre in Newcastle in 1999/2000 where he wrote Bones. His play COld, a black comedy about a string quartet of psychopathic young men toured during 2001 to great acclaim. His feature fims Five Psychopaths and The Edward Stark Trilogy are under commission from Contagious Films. His half-hour television film Waiters was broadcast in 2001 starring Lee Hall and Robson Green. He won the Alfred Bradley radio award for the adaptation of his own stage play The Ghost of Frederico Garcia Lorca Which Can Also Be Used As A Table. The radio version was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2001. Other plays include Fetish (Live Theatre, Newcastle, 2000), Rat (Pink Ponyt THeatre, New York, 1996), and A Rhyme for Orange (winner of the 1997 North East People's Play Award. He also adapted Toby Young's memoir How to Lose Friends & Alienate People for the screen and is the writer of the 2009 film, The Men Who Stare at Goats, and co-writer of the 2011 film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay, a screenplay he wrote in collaboration with his late wife Bridget O'Connor. They were awarded a BAFTA for Best Adapted Screenplay.