Stuart Slade was born in Bristol and now lives in London. He is the Artistic Director of Kuleshov Theatre and the Creative Director of Ivanov Films. His plays include: Glee & Me (Judges' Prize, 2019 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting; Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, 2021); BU21 (Theatre503, London, 2016; Trafalgar Studios, West End, 2017); and Cans (Theatre503, 2014), nominated for two Offies – Best Play and Most Promising New Playwright.
'Brave, blackly comic… the stories here are gut-churningly vivid,
compassionate, yet often wildly, horribly funny'
*The Times*
'Slade offers six close-up, compelling and often blackly comic
stories and the result is a constantly sparky 90 minutes that
delights in surprising and wrong-footing us'
*Evening Standard*
'Amongst the trauma and suffering lurks an awful lot of humour…
gallingly graphic, desperately bleak, heartrendingly sad and quite,
quite hilarious'
*Exeunt Magazine*
'The real star of this show is Stuart Slade's script. It's not just
the pace that runs relentlessly across the 90 minutes all-through,
but his ear for how people speak, their lexicons and their rhythms.
An Alan Bennett for the Millennial Generation is a big label to put
on a young playwright, but Slade is building a corpus of work to
justify it... superb work'
*BroadwayWorld.com*
'Intelligent, questioning and very funny'
*The Stage*
'What a daring feat of writing this is… hauntingly credible,
shudderingly so… captures the internal conflict of global terror:
the sense that it was somehow deserved, the pull to be part of
something, the impulse to laugh and to cry'
*WhatsOnStage*
'Strikingly real, shocking and even heartbreaking at times… the
dialogue is snappy and at some points surprisingly funny despite
the tragic subject matter… a haunting piece that in the light of
current events, will stay with the audience'
*The Upcoming*
'Around two-thirds of the way through I realised I'd become so
caught up that I'd forgotten BU21 has not actually happened…
Slade's fresh, intelligent writing is full of life and action'
*West End Wilma*
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