What Falls Apart

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May 2015: The most important General Election for a generation. All is not well for Tom Savage, an ex-Labour minister parachuted into a safe North East constituency, trying to win hearts and minds as well as an Election. Wrestling with a heady cocktail of mid-life crisis, growing dependency on alcohol and the consequences of his Governments policies in Iraq, Tom finds himself in a Tyneside hotel bar at midnight with a newly teetotal barman and a criminally attractive woman. What could possibly go wrong Plenty

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An uncommonly talented playwright - Brilliant and testing. * Time Out *
I was reminded of both Tom Stoppard and George Bernard Shaw, partly in the interplay between character and ideas but also in the demands Betts makes on his audience, in the intellectual rigour of the writing and his ability to look afresh at at hackneyed topics...the stunned silence as the lights went down at the end and the seemingly interminable pause before the enthusiastic applause broke out say it all. * British Theatre Guide *
He is just about the most 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... Brilliant and testing. * Time Out *

Author Bio

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), Muswell Hill (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, Park Theatre, London) and Invincible (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, St James Theatre London).