January 2015
V&A hosts 8 new plays by Synergy writers
Synergy Theatre Project invited writers to respond to the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition Disobedient Objects and the broad theme of protest as a starting point.
Over 10 weeks in Autumn 2014 the V&A hosted as playwright Anders Lustgarten led writing classes exploring art and activism, politics and playwriting and each writer responded with their own unique short play. Director Amy Hodge lead a professional cast who presented the plays at the V&A on Friday 9th January 2015 to an audience including exhibition visitors.
The plays were:
- Action by J. Robinson
- Purdey Shotgun by Frank Prosper
- Riding The Moment by Paul Cassidy
- Consenting Adults by Elizabeth Swan
- Sixteen Shoes by Adrian Syn Bailey
- Belief Systems by Pamela Chandler
- The Turning of Maggie by Quince Garcia
- The Commissioner by Martin Askew
