What Falls Apart (Live Theatre)

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2015
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May 2015: The most important General Election for a generation. Allis not well for Tom Savage, an ex-Labour minister parachuted intoa safe North East constituency, trying to win hearts and minds aswell as an Election.Wrestling with a heady cocktail of mid-life crisis, growing dependencyon alcohol and the consequences of his Government's policies inIraq, Tom finds himself in a Tyneside hotel bar at midnight with anewly teetotal barman and a 'criminally attractive' woman. Whatcould possibly go wrong? Plenty...

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May 2015: The most important General Election for a generation. Allis not well for Tom Savage, an ex-Labour minister parachuted intoa safe North East constituency, trying to win hearts and minds aswell as an Election.Wrestling with a heady cocktail of mid-life crisis, growing dependencyon alcohol and the consequences of his Government's policies inIraq, Tom finds himself in a Tyneside hotel bar at midnight with anewly teetotal barman and a 'criminally attractive' woman. Whatcould possibly go wrong? Plenty...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 88
Publisher: Oberon Books Ltd
Published: 30 Apr 2015
ISBN 10: 1783194979
ISBN 13: 9781783194971

Media Reviews

An uncommonly talented playwright - Brilliant and testing. Time Out; 'I was reminded of both Tom Stoppard and George Bernard Shaw, partly in the interplay between character and ideas but also in the demands Betts makes on his audience, in the intellectual rigour of the writing and his ability to look afresh at at hackneyed topics...the stunned silence as the lights went down at the end and the seemingly interminable pause before the enthusiastic applause broke out say it all.' British Theatre Guide

Author Bio

Other plays include: Muswell Hill (Orange Tree Theatre and Park Theatre);Invincible (Orange Tree Theatre and St James Theatre); The Unconquered, BestNew Play 2007 Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland (Tron/Traverse/Arcola/Brits-off-Broadway); The Seagull (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre); A ListeningHeaven (Edinburgh Royal Lyceum); Lie of the Land (Edinburgh Pleasance/Arcola); Clockwatching; The Company Man (both Orange Tree Theatre); TheBiggleswades (Southwark Playhouse); Five Visions of the Faithful (EdinburghFestival); The Lunatic Queen (Riverside Studios); The Error of Their Ways(HERE Arts Center, New York); The Swing of Things; Her Slightest Touch (bothStephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough); Incarcerator (Battersea Arts Centre);Silence and Violence (White Bear Theatre) and Get Carter (Northern Stage).He wrote the screenplay for the feature film Downhill, which was released incinemas in May 2014.