Huddersfield

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It's hard turning thirty. Especially when your alcoholic father has taken the toilet door, you've got a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl in your bed and your best friend is the lunatic living downstairs. Then an old school friend turns up after ten years living in Huddersfield and it's the start of an evening where the sparks fly and the ketchup flows. A dark, painful and very funny play by Serbian writer Ugljesa Sajtinac, in a version by Fringe First winner, Chris Thorpe, Huddersfield was part of the Northern Exposure season at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.

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The miracle of Sajtinac's play, in a pithy and often very funny colloquial version by Chris Thorpe, is that it steers a hopeless situation towards a hopeful conclusion. * Guardian *

Author Bio

The son of an actress and the poet Radivoj ajtinac, Ugljesa Sajtinac studied Dramaturgy at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts of Belgrades University of Arts and graduated in 1999. He worked as a dramaturge at the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad from 2003 to 2005, then he became professor of dramaturgy at the Academy of Arts of the University of Novi Sad.