Mercury Reads: Self Control
Join us for Mercury Reads a series of lively rehearsed readings celebrating local voices and fresh new writing. Each event spotlights an exciting playwright from our region, giving audiences the chance to see new stories take shape for the very first time.
In this session, join us in the Café Bar on Tue 3 Mar at 4.45pm as we look at Mercury Reads: Self Control by Ted Marriott.
“I thought I should come here today, because I reached a point where I wasn’t sure if I was here anymore. Or I was here to begin with.”
Self Control is a one-man show that follows the story of Matthew, who is on a quest to win back his boyfriend, prove to everyone he’s got his shit together, bury years of self-loathing and grief and throw his mum the best birthday party anyone has ever seen – easy. But with every step he takes forward, he finds himself back in time, in a club, the ceiling of his flat, his childhood bedroom, or his flooded bathroom. He must do all he can to maintain some self control and get back to a reality of stasis and comfort before he loses himself forever.
Self Control is a funny, heartbreaking and time-travelling tragicomedy, exploring the contradictions and connections between men’s mental health and queer identity, family, love, loss and how these are experienced physically and temporally.
Ted Marriot is the writer and performer of this piece.
Ted Marriott
Ted Marriott is a writer and performer from Suffolk. He is an alumni of the National Youth Theatre, Old Vic Theatre Makers, Bush Theatre Emerging Writers Group and the HighTide Writers Group.
He is currently working on a new play about the lives and times of African American GIs and white British communities in rural Suffolk during the Second World War with the help and inspiration of the heritage project Black USAF.
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