Mercury Reads: Bindweed by Martha Loader

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Showing on:
Thu 28 July 2022
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Venue:
Studio Theatre
Warnings:
Swearing, violence, misogynistic conversation, reference to coercive control, rape and sexual assault, reference to murder and suicide, and reference to children obtaining and sharing pornography

Join us for Bindweed by Martha Loader.

About Bindweed: Jen works with a domestic abuse perpetrator group. She has also just started dating…

Martha Loader is a playwright, producer and actor based in East Anglia. Her work has been performed nationally and internationally including at Cambridge Junction, HighTide Festival, INK Festival, Tristan Bates Theatre and the Owl and Cat Theatre, Melbourne. She is a current Mercury Theatre Playwright. You can read a guest blog from Martha about the project and being a Mercury Playwright here.

Bethany Pitts is an award winning director and dramaturg of new work, and she will be directing this read. Directing credits include: Sirens by Kenny Emson (Mercury Theatre, Critics Choice 2021 BritishTheatre.com), Juniper and Jules by Stephanie Martin (Soho Theatre / previously VAULT Festival – Show of the Week Award), F*ck You Pay Me by Joana Nastari (VAULT & Edinburgh Festivals / Bunker Theatre), A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Gynecologic Oncology Unit by Halley Feiffer (Finborough Theatre, UK premiere – 3 x Off West End Nominations), 3 Billion Seconds by Maud Dromgoole (VAULT / Paines Plough Roundabout), Brutal Cessation by Milly Thomas (Assembly Edinburgh / Theatre 503), Spine (Underbelly Edinburgh / Soho Theatre / UK Tour – Fringe First Winner), Tether by Isley Lynn (Underbelly Edinburgh) and FreeFall by Vinay Patel (Pleasance Islington – Nominated for Off West End Best Director).

Content Warnings:
Swearing, violence, misogynistic conversation, reference to coercive control, rape and sexual assault, reference to murder and suicide, and reference to children obtaining and sharing pornography.
simon

Simon Darwen

Ed/Mike

daniel

Daniel Kendrick

Charlie/Peter

miranda

Miranda Heath

Jen

john

John Rayment

Frank

mark

Mark Ramsey

Brian

anna

Anna Bolton

Nina/Belinda/Siobhan

bethany

Bethany Pitts

Director

writer

Martha Loader

Writer

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