SOMETHING

ABOUT US

By

Andrew Alty

CAST:

ALAN DEVINE

JOHN MATTHEWS

AIDAN CONDRON

Directed By Michael Scott

Designed By Michael McCaffery

Stage Manager Eva Walsh

Original Music Michael Scott

Part 1

Best friends Michael and Peter – "sisters", but not lovers – are waiting in an airport departure lounge for their holiday flight to Spain. Peter has full-blown AIDS, but is on the top of his form. He  keeps seeing dead figures from his past in the lounge...Peter has an accident and wets himself as his body disintegrates. They remember their times together and say goodbye..

Part 2

In part two Michael is grieving and has a "one night stand" but is unable to open himself to any new kind of relationship ...

the Play was originally presented at the Lyric Hammersmith inLondon in 1995

Andrew Alty

Andrew Alty has written extensively for theatre, radio and television. His first play, The Left-over Heart won the Charringtons Award for Best First Play in 1993 and was subsequently broadcast on Radio 3.

His theatre work since then has included Asylum (Royal Court Theatre 1993), Something About Us (Lyric Hammersmith 1995) and The Road to Hell(Birmingham Repertory 1996). Andrew was Writers Tutor at the Royal Court from 1993-1995 and Writer-in-Residence at the Soho Theatre in 1994.

Andrew’s original play for radio, Buried Treasure was broadcast on Radio 4 in 1996, and he has recently delivered a new piece for radio, Halfway to Heaven (producer Marc Beeby). He has written five episodes of The Bill.

He is founding Artistic Director of the Arts Council funded Fast Forward Theatre Company, based in South Yorkshire which has specialised in creating new work by and for young people since 1995.

He is currently the Creative Learning Projects Manager at New Wimbledon Theatre.

Andrew currently divides his time between his native South Yorkshire and his home in South East London.

The Production played at the RHA Downstairs 1997

When the audience entered,  they ushered into an Airport lounge which was metaphor for dying

After the interval they were ushered into a new space at the end of which was a bedroom with a sofa bed