Torben Betts: Plays One

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PLAYS DRAMA/THEATRE A Listening Heaven, Mummies and Daddies, Clockwatching Three pitch-black comedies from this exciting new writer: A Listening Heaven, painfully unravelling one family's inability to grieve for a dead son, was produced in 1999 to critical acclaim at Alan Ayckbourn's Stephen Joseph Theatre where Betts was the resident dramatist. (2nd production: Edinburgh Royal Lyccum, January 2001). Mummies and Daddies was developed at the RNT Studio and hilariously charts a marketing man's collapsing personal life. In Clockwatching a despotic man descends into helplessness when his servile wife falls seriously ill. Production: The SJT, May 2001 after a major tour.

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A wonderfully accomplished first play * Alan Ayckbourn (A Listening Heaven) *
A complex writer of misery pock marked with painful comedy * Yorkshire Evening Post *

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Torben Betts read English Literature & English Language at the University of Liverpool before training and working as an actor. Works include: The Unconquered, Best New Play 2007 Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland (Tron/Traverse/Arcola/Brits-off-Broadway); A Listening Heaven, nominated for Best New Play at the 2001 TMA Awards (Edinburgh Royal Lyceum); Lie of the Land, nominated for Edinburgh Fringe First Award, 2008 (Edinburgh Pleasance/Arcola); Clockwatching (Orange Tree Theatre); The Company Man (Orange Tree Theatre); The Biggleswades (Southwark Playhouse); Five Visions of the Faithful (Edinburgh Festival); The Lunatic Queen (Riverside Studios); The Error of Their Ways (HERE Arts Center, New York); The Swing of Things (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough). 'just about the most original and extraordinary writer of drama we have...a boldly visionary poet...a political Beckett...a flamingly original writer we ignore at our peril.' LIZ LOCHHEAD, NATIONAL POET OF SCOTLAND 'an uncommonly talented playwright'. TIME OUT 'Betts has a profound and highly original theatrical voice.' DAILY TELEGRAPH