Presence Theatre/Unge Viken Teater, Norway/UK
​EMERGING PLAYWRIGHT 
​COLLABORATION PROJECT
2019/2020

 ‘This is an opportunity for Presence to further engage with emerging playwrights, and also for us to help advance the practice of new performance writing across national boundaries through Presence’s distinctive actors’ play reading networks and processes. It is particularly special to be collaborating on this with our friends and kindred spirits at Unge Viken, and particularly thanks to Unge Viken dramaturg Oystein Brager for facilitating this. We very much look forward to welcoming him and the writers when they visit London over the coming months, and of course to sharing their work’ 
Colin Ellwood for Presence Theatre.
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FRIDA AND DIEGO

A new musical by Ivo Mosley.
​Based around the extraordinary love story of revolutionary Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Riviera and of their encounters with the ‘American Way’
​​R&D workshop company: Simon Usher, Ivo Mosley, Noah Mosley, Colin Ellwood, Sophie Juge, Whitney Wornall, Maite Jauregui Narvaez , Maria De Lima, Danny Horn, Scipio Mosley, Taylor Rettke, Richard Emerson

​PERSISTENCE
by 
​Griselda Gambaro

The idea for this play arose from the news appearing in the newspapers of the Beslan massacre, in Russia.  On the 3rdof September 2004, a group of 32 Chechnyan rebels took hundreds hostage in a school in Beslan, where parents and students joined to celebrate the first day of classes.  The Russian government did not agree to negotiate with the captors and in the immediate repression the school was attacked with flame throwers and tanks.  The operation, in which only one Chechnyan rebel was captured alive, had a high and unforeseen cost, 331 hostages died, the majority of which were children.  As we know, no work is entirely imagined.  ​​
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