Weald

Daniel Foxsmith

• Publisher: Oberon Books
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781783193424
• eBook ISBN: 9781783193431
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: British Drama
• Index: Literature

On a remote livery yard in rural England, Jim arrives 'home' after eight years away, in need of work. It didn't end so well last time, but he's sure that this time it'll be different... Sam, as old as the fixtures and fittings themselves, reluctantly agrees - there's work to be done after all. As the men attempt to pick up from where they left off, fresh cracks appear beside old wounds. Things have changed. But the world can only be held at bay for so long before the two men will have to answer for their actions

A terse and delicate dissection of male emotions from a rural perspective: fathers and sons, honour and legacy, molasses and mud. Weald is Daniel Foxsmith's third full length play. It is directed by Bryony Shanahan, director of critically acclaimed shows Operation Crucible and Bitch Boxer. Both, along with Charlotte Josephine, are co-Artistic Directors of multi-award winning Snuff Box Theatre.

Snuff Box Theatre in association with Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester and Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre presents

The world premiere

WEALD

by Daniel Foxsmith

FINBOROUGH | THEATRE

First performance at the Finborough Theatre: Tuesday, 2 February 2016.

WEALD

by Daniel Foxsmith

Cast in order of speaking

Samuel	David Crellin
Jim	Dan Parr

The action takes place on a livery yard somewhere in rural England.

The performance lasts approximately 75 minutes.

There will be no interval.

Director	Bryony Shanahan
Production Designer	Christopher Hone
Lighting Designer	Seth Rook Williams
Sound Designer	Peter Rice
Stage Manager	Louise Skaaning
Producer	Jake Orr
Assistant Producer	Sofia Stephanou
Artistic Collaborator	Charlotte Josephine
PR	Chloe Nelkin Consulting

Our patrons are respectfully reminded that, in this intimate theatre, any noise such as rustling programmes, talking or the ringing of mobile phones may distract the actors and your fellow audience-members.

We regret there is no admittance or re-admittance to the auditorium whilst the performance is in progress.

David Crellin | Samuel

Theatre includes The Hoard Festival (New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme), Hunger for Trade, Saturday Night, Sunday Morning (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester), The Seagull, Hard Times, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Audience, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, The Winter’s Tale, Beyond Belief, Schweyk In the Second World War, A Christmas Carol, Time of My Life, Aladdin (Library Theatre, Manchester), Absent Friends (Coliseum Theatre, Oldham, and Harrogate Theatre) Kes (Liverpool Playhouse and Tour), Spring and Port Wine (Octagon Theatre, Bolton), Get Ken Barlow (Watford Palace), The Trackers of Oxyrhincus (National Theatre), The Merry Wives (Tour for Northern Broadsides), The Revenger’s Tragedy and Three Girls In Blue (West Yorkshire Playhouse).

Television includes Happy Valley, Home Fires, The Cops, Waterloo Road, Paradox, Accused, Doctors, North and South, Dalziel and Pascoe, Holby City, Strumpet, Vacuuming Completely Nude In Paradise, Emmerdale, Coronation Street, HeartBeat, Fat Friends, Mysterious Creatures, The Girls Who Came To Stay, What We Did On Our Holidays, The Bill, Blood Strangers, Bob and Rose and Shameless.

Radio includes Craven.

Dan Parr | Jim

Theatre includes Hamlet (Barbican Theatre), Britannia Waves The Rules for which he was nominated for Best Actor at the Manchester Theatre Awards (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester), Scuttlers, Pages From My Songbook (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester), Wanted! Robin Hood (Library Theatre, Manchester), and DNA (The Lowry, Salford).

Film includes The Rise of the Krays, The Fall of the Krays and Halcyon Heights.

Television includes The Musketeers, Rocket’s Island, Casualty, The Crimson Field and The Village.

Daniel Foxsmith | Playwright

Trained at East 15 Acting School and is an award-winning actor and writer.

Weald was shortlisted for both the inaugural Hodgkiss Award at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in 2013 and the Yale Drama Series prize in 2014. He was also long listed for Theatre503 Playwright’s Award in 2014.

Plays include The Observatory, winner of Scottish Daily Mail and Conference of Drama Schools Edinburgh Award and National Student Drama Festival and Methuen Drama Prize (The Underbelly, Edinburgh) and The Altitude Brothers (Ovalhouse and National Tour).

As an actor, Daniel has toured nationally and internationally as well as performing in the West End and winning several awards, including Best Performer at the Adelaide Fringe with Bound.

Daniel is founder and co-Artistic Director of Snuff Box Theatre.

Bryony Shanahan | Director Productions at the Finborough Theatre include Operation Crucible.

Trained on the National Theatre Studio Director’s Course and East 15 Acting School and is co-artistic director of Snuff Box Theatre. Direction includes Bitch Boxer (Soho Theatre National and International Tour), Chapel Street (National Tour), You and Me (Greenwich Theatre and National Tour), and The Altitude Brothers (Ovalhouse, Redbridge Drama Centre and National Tour).

Associate Direction includes The Skriker (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester) and The Gruffalo’s Child (UK and North American Tour).

Staff Direction includes Our Country’s Good (National Theatre).

Assistant Direction includes Hamlet (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester), Around the World in 80 Days (New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-upon-Lyme, and Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester). Bryony was nominated for an OffWestEnd award for Best Director and won a BBC Performing Arts Award to work at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester.

Charlotte Josephine | Artistic Collaborator

Trained on the Contemporary Theatre Course at East 15 Acting School and is co-artistic director of Snuff Box Theatre.

Acting includes Buckets (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond), Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse), Secret Theatre Company (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith), Bitch Boxer (Soho Theatre, National and International Tour) and Perffection (Edinburgh Festival Fringe). Writing includes Bitch Boxer (Soho Theatre, National and International Tour) and Perffection (Edinburgh Festival Fringe).

Bitch Boxer won the Soho Theatre Young Writers Award 2012, Old Vic New Voices Edinburgh Season 2012, the Holden Street Theatres Award 2013 and the Adelaide Fringe Award 2013.

Christopher Hone | Production Designer

Productions at the Finborough Theatre include Coyote Ugly and The Time of Your Life.

Trained in Theatre Design at Nottingham Trent University. Theatre includes Big Time! (Theatre Royal, Stratford), The Boy Who Cried, Sochi 2014 and Fred and Madge (Hope Theatre), Tosca (Soho Theatre), The Diary of a Nobody, The Great Gatsby, A Tale of Two Cities and Two Caravans (King’s Head Theatre), The Lesson, Vincent in Brixton, A Taste of Honey, Hamlet, Gawkagogo Freakshow, Hedda Gabler and Othello (International Tour), One Minute (Courtyard Theatre), Guerilla/Whore, Radiance, The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance, Cinderella, Just So and Stiffed! (Tabard Theatre), Dorian Gray, Romeo and Juliet (Leicester Square Theatre), Gilbert is Dead (Hoxton Hall), Rip Her to Shreds (Old Red Lion Theatre), The Great Gatsby, Vegasm and Hutch (Riverside Studios) and Second Person Narrative (Ambassadors Theatre).

Television includes the complete studio re-design of QVC twice, Big Brother, Celebrity Big Brother, Phillip Schofield’s 24 Live TV Marathon for Text Santa, Children In Need, 60 Minute Makeover, Cowboy Builders and Bodge Jobs and numerous television and internet c...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Characters
• Writer’s Note
• Scene One
• Scene Two
• Scene Three
• Scene Four
• Scene Five
• Scene Six
• Scene Seven
• Scene Eight
• Scene Nine
• Scene Ten
• Scene Eleven
• Scene Twelve
• Scene Thirteen
• Scene Fourteen
• Scene Fifteen