XX Edition of MilanOltre Festival (22 September - 15 October) will host two important British playwrights: Mark Ravenhill and Tim Crouch.
Ravenhill's Product, a 45-minute monologue, brilliantly projects the complex anxieties surrounding global terrorism into the glossy and glib world of film. Product exposes the theatricality behind the new language and imagery of terrorism emerging in today’s society, particularly peddled by tabloid scaremongers.
Crouch's An Oak Tree is about a father who loses his daughter to a car.  His response is to meet the loss with a colossal act of projection: the tree next to where she died he transforms into his girl.  For him, nothing now is what it is.  It’s like he’s in a play - everything represented by something else. The man who killed the girl (played by Tim Crouch) is a stage hypnotist.  Since the accident, he’s lost the ability to make a convincing suggestion.  His act is a disaster. For him, everything now is exactly what it is. For the first time since the accident, these two men meet.  They meet when the father volunteer’s for the Hypnotist’s act.  He volunteers because he’s looking for some answers...

Date:

Mark Ravenhill, 7 - 8 October 2006
Tim Crouch, 10 - 12 October 2006

Venue:   Milan

Teatro dell'Elfo, Via Ciro Menotti 11

Information:

e-mail, miol@elfo.org