Seven contemporary stories grounded in prominent, mythical origins bring this unflinching monologue cycle to a new audience.
Colin Teevan is a celebrated playwright, translator and writer for
screen. His work has been produced by many leading theatres
including the National, the Young Vic, the Soho Theatre and the
National Theatre of Scotland.
Colin's 2009 play, The Lion of Kabul, was produced as part of the
Tricycle Theatre's Great Game festival on Afghanistan and was
hailed as 'an inspirational highlight of the year' by The
Independent. In the same year, he adapted Franz Kafka's Report to
An Academy for the Young Vic, where it appeared as the
critically-acclaimed play, Kafka's Monkey, as well as reviving the
National Theatre of Scotland's production of his new version of
Peer Gynt at The Barbican and, subsequently, on tour. In 2010
Kafka's Monkey was revived by The Young Vic at the Bouffes du Nord
Theatre in Paris and The Great Game was revived by the Tricycle for
an American tour.
In 2011 Colin wrote an episode of the ITV drama Vera starring
Brenda Blethyn and a two-part episode of ITV/RTE crime drama Single
Handed.
Colin was commissioned to write an original play There Was A Man,
There Was No Man for the Tricycle as part of their 2012 season of
plays entitled 'The Bomb'.
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