Muscle
By (Author) Tom Wainwright
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oberon Books Ltd
30th June 2011
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
822.92
Paperback
80
Width 130mm, Height 210mm
112g
Three men. One gym. A disaster waiting to happen. Steve has been stalking Dan. Terry has also been stalking Dan. Steve and Terry are best friends. Steve wants a fight. Terry wants to get laid. Dan just wants to do some reps. Its not going to work out like that. Muscle: a wrong-com about pumping iron, loving thy brother, and battling with the man in the mirror.
Toms first play, Muscle, was produced by Bristol Old Vic in September 2009 then remounted by Hull Truck Theatre in 2011. Tom is under commission to write a new play for Hull Truck in autumn of this year. In 2010 he was on the Young Writers Programme and Autumn Studio Group at the Royal Court in London. Tom has worked as an actor with Theatre Alibi, Bristol Old Vic, Bodies in Flight, Myrtle Theatre, Tobacco Factory, BBC1 and Radio 4. Other writing/performing credits work with currently dormant theatre company Paper Aeroplane include Jesus Christ Its Christmas, Love in Idleness, The Grill Chef and One. Tom has also written for ATC/Bristol Old Vic Young Company (Emo) and adapted Hansel and Gretel for The Egg in Bath. Toms solo show Pedestrian, a Theatre Bristol/Bristol Old Vic co-commission, is touring this Autumn.