The Awkward Years

(Paperback)

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

Lily's like a lot of other 20-somethings - working a dead-end job, stuck in a cycle of one-night stands and not where they expected to be at the age of 27. Her friends all feel like their lives are falling apartexcept Lily's really is. Can she stop the rot before she crumbles away to nothing The Awkward Years will fuse a muscular text with frenetic movement and an evocative sound and lighting design to produce a breakneck-speed show about grief, hope and staying alive.

Author Bio

Matthew trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and works as an actor, playwright and director. Credits as playwright include: Last Christmas (Dirty Protest/Theatre Clwyd, Edinburgh Fringe/Soho Theatre), Constellation Street (The Other Room), #YOLO (National Theatre Connections), The Knowledge (Royal Court/Dirty Protest), My Fathers Hands(Paines Plough, Come to Where Im From), Lacuna (Three Streets Productions, New Wimbledon Studio), Real Human Being (Taking Flight). He was the recipient of the Best Playwright award at the Wales Theatre Awards 2015. Matthew has directed and curated a large number of writing events for Dirty Protest and number of short plays for various events for Sherman Cymru. He is a member of the artistic directorate of the West Glamorgan Youth Theatre, directing many of their recent productions and he has taught acting, theatre studies and directed a broad range of theatre projects at a number of educational institutions across South Wales. Matthew is a core member of Welsh new writing collective Dirty Protest and is co-artistic director of True/Fiction Theatre.