One Million Tiny Plays About Britain

ONE MILLION TINY PLAYS ABOUT BRITAIN

By Craig Taylor

12 – 23 April at The Watermill Theatre 

A humorous and poignant snapshot of life in modern Britain as imagined by Craig Taylor can be seen at The Watermill Theatre from 12 to 23 April and will also tour to local villages. One Million Tiny Plays About Britain is a series of laugh-out-loud funny and heartbreakingly moving overheard conversations from across the length and breadth of the country, revealing the triumphs, disasters, horrors and joys of life in the twenty-first century.

Playing all the characters will be local actors Emma Barclay from Bradfield Southend, near Reading and Wiltshire based actor Alec Nicholls whose television credits include the BBC’s Catherine Tate’s Nan, Doc Martin and Broadchurch (ITV) and The Mimic (Channel 4).

Originally published in The Guardian, One Million Tiny Plays About Britain, are ‘acutely observed’ insights which ‘read like a digest of the nation’s soaps, with a little bit of Alan Bennett and The Vicar of Dibley thrown in’.

The show’s director, Laura Keefe, has directed at the Young Vic, Southbank Centre and Bush Theatre. As assistant director Laura has worked for, among others, the National Theatre, Donmar Warehouse and Regents Park Open Air Theatre.

Audiences in rural areas across Berkshire, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Hampshire will have the opportunity to see the show which is on tour between 6 April and 7 May. Visit watermill.org.uk for a list of tour venues.