Dot organises British Playwrights Talk in collaboration with British Council by inviting British playwrights in 2008/2009 season to talk about their plays and discuss the current role of contemporary theatre in the world politics and societies.
The second guest of the talk is Mark Ravenhill who is the writer of the epic piece Shoot / Get Treasure / Repeat consisting 17 short plays and 1 radio play.
During the panel, which will be held on the 15th of March, Sunday, Mark Ravenhill and Murat Daltaban, the director of Shoot / Get Treasure / Repeat – part of the DOT at Bilsar project, will talk about the play and about contemporary theatre.
Mark Ravenhill is one of the one of the most controversial and successful British writers to emerge in the 1990s. He was born in 1966, in West Sussex Haywards Heath and wrote his first play when he was 13 years old. He studied Drama and English Literature at the University of Bristol between 1984 and 1987. He started his professional theatre career as an administrative assistant at Soho Poly. After Soho Poly, his first jobs included freelance directing and drama teaching.
In 1993 London New Play Festival staged a short play written by him, Close to You, which is a comedy about homosexuality. In 1994, he directed Hansel and Gretel which was written for the Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham. The following year he wrote Fist as a part of Aids project called Red Admiral. It is a ten-minute dialogue between two men talking about sex.
Mark Ravenhill’s first full-length play Shopping and Fucking was produced by Out Of Joint Theatre Company, opening at the Royal Court Theare, London in 1996 and was described as one of the best new plays in the National's history.
Apart from being a writer, Mark Ravenhill has also become an iconic figure on the new writing scene, helping younger writers and penning provocative journalistic pieces. He also writes for the The Guardian arts section. Social and political issues and the recent developments in screenplays led him to write an epic cycle of plays exploring the personal and political effect of war on modern life.
Date: 15th of March, Sunday
Venue: Pera Museum, Mesrutiyet Cd. No65 Tepebasi/Beyoglu
Entrance is free
Simultaneous translation is available
Please contact DOT and make reservation to attend the panel
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The first guest of the talk was Philip Ridley who is the writer of DOT’s play Mercury Fur. During the panel, which was held on the 28th of February, Saturday, Philip Ridley and Murat Daltaban, the director of Mercury Fur, talked about the play and about contemporary theatre.
The works of Philip Ridley are described as threatening yet charming and his style is named as Brutal Beauty.
Philip Ridley was born in the east of London where he still resides. He studied painting at St. Martin’s School of Art. While studying he was also interested in performance and established his own theatre group and involved in many productions as an actor. He has also directed two feature films from his own screenplays: The Reflecting Skin – winner of 11 international awards – and The Passion of Darkly Noon (winner of the Best Director Prize at the Porto Film Festival). Ridley is currently in post-production on his third film as writer-director, Heartless that is due for release in early-2009. The trilogy of Mercury Fur, Leaves of Glass and Piranha Heights has recently published with his introduction.
Apart from his books for children and adults and short stories he is also a photographer and a poet. He co-wrote, with Nick Bicat, two songs that appeared in his film The Passion of Darkly Noon. Tarantula in Petrol Blue is an opera for teenagers composed by Anna Meredith with words by Philip Ridley. It was staged by Aldeburgh Music in February.
Philip Ridley is the only person to win both the Evening Standard's Most Promising Newcomer to British Film and Most Promising Playwright Awards. Despite the vast range of his talents - he was once referred to as 'a one man cultural revolution' - Ridley has always described himself as a storyteller.
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