Press & Awards Nothing - Edinburgh 2014 "A snapshot of a generation who feels that the future has very little to offer them, and who are appalled and fascinated by the violence they encounter in everyday life". ???? Lyn Gardner , The Guardian . Read the review here . "Not since 2010 – Anya Reiss’s Spur of the Moment at the Royal Court, London – has a first-time play felt so certain in both voice and intent". ???? Matt Trueman, Financial Times. Read the review here . "A fiercely confrontational and intelligent piece, with a disarming truthfulness about the...
Barrel Organ
Barrel Organ
Chaos: indecipherable columns of cascading numbers; innumerable rushing people, who communicate across the space with equally inexplicable gestures and jargon. It is 2007. The banks and the bankers are gambling, and the world economy is about to come crashing down. In amongst it all is Faustus whose greed outstrips them all, and so he devises a diabolic plan to claim for himself all the riches of the world. This is the premise of Dan Hutton’s bold and ambitious new take on the classic Christopher Marlowe play. It is both a thoroughly modern take on a classic piece of theatre...
Reviews of my work
Reviews of my work
CV
About a third of the way through today’s performance of Children of the Sun , the show had to be stopped due to a patron becoming ill. Now obviously, that in itself isn’t a good thing and I wish him a speedy recovery, but the instance added a certain frisson to the remainder of the performance. Until then, it felt like the actors were going through the motions, and to be honest I wasn’t really paying attention. As soon as the stage manager entered, however, a charge became apparent, and after a break the actors returned with a punch...
Writing samples
Writing samples
Writing samples