Book description
The Static 'We all have sick thoughts. It doesnae matter what you
think, it's what you do that counts. Trouble is, my thoughts do things.
Don't believe me? Just watch.' Sparky is a bright but volatile
15-year-old boy on the brink of permanent exclusion from school. Then
one day he falls under the spell of a seemingly psychic girl called
Siouxsie and develops his own kinetic superpower. But will it save him
or push him over the edge? The Static is a coming-of-age love story
about what happens when our darkest dreams come true. Blackout 'A small
room, bright lights, white walls, a metal door. Oh my God! Imagine you
wake up in a jail cell and you don't know how you got there.' Blackout
is the true story of a 15-year-old boy charged with attempted murder who
tries to piece together the events in his life that have brought him
into a secure care unit and threaten to keep him there. This short play
packs a big emotional punch with its stylistic economy and razor-sharp
storytelling. The Static was originally produced by ThickSkin for the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe and UK tour 2012. Blackout was commissioned
for NT Connections and produced by ThickSkin at the Edinburgh Fringe
2010, winning the Arches Brick Award and subsequently touring the UK.
Davey Anderson's writing - urgent, real yet heightened - comes straight
from the mould of Mark O'Rowe or Enda Walsh. What's On Stage a dazzling
display of current small-scale theatre technique, delivered with
outstanding wit and flair. The Scotsman Davey Anderson is from Glasgow
and his work as Playwright/Director includes: Snuff, (Arches Theatre, as
winner of the Arches Award for Stage Directors, runner up
Meyer-Whitworth Award), Rupture (NTS & Traverse Theatre) and
Blackout (National Theatre New Connections & Citizens Theatre Young
Company). His other plays include: Flicker (as part of the 200th play,
oran Mor), Playback (Ankur Productions), Wired (oran Mor), Liar (TAG
Theatre Company & Sounds of Progress, Best Show for Children and
Young People, Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland) and Clutter Keeps
Company (Birds of Paradise). Adaptations include: Zorro (Visible
Fictions & Traverse Theatre). Co-Writing/Directing credits include:
Mixter Maxter (NTS & St Magnus Festival, Orkney). As Associate
Director he collaborated with New York based company The T. E.A. M. on
Architecting (Co-Production with NTS). His work as Musical
Director/Composer includes: Peter Pan (NTS & Barbican), Be Near Me
(NTS & Donmar Warehouse), Oresteia (Lazzi Experimental Arts Unit
& Cumbernauld Theatre) and Black Watch (National Theatre of
Scotland, world tour). He was Director in Residence with the National
Theatre of Scotland 2006-07 and is currently an Associate Playwright
with the Playwrights' Studio Scotland 2010-11.
