Victory Condition

Chris Thorpe

• Publisher: Oberon Books
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781786821058
• eBook ISBN: 9781786821065
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: British Drama
• Index: Literature

"A thousand people are taking a sip of coffee within the city limits of Johannesburg, each unaware of the other doing it, each one necessarily thinking they are the only one." An attempt to get to grips with the fact that everything happens at once. And to see if there's anything we can do about it. "Find the connection between where you are and where I am. Open up the space between us and do something."

ROYAL
COURT

THE ROYAL COURT THEATRE PRESENTS

Victory Condition

by Chris Thorpe

Victory Condition is part of the Royal Court’s Jerwood New Playwrights Programme, supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation.

Victory Condition is also supported by Cockayne Grants for the Arts, a donor advised fund of The London Community Foundation.

Victory Condition was first performed at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs on Thursday 5 October 2017.

Victory Condition

by Chris Thorpe

CAST (in alphabetical order)

Woman Sharon Duncan-Brewster

Man Jonjo O’Neill

Director Vicky Featherstone

Designer Chloe Lamford

Lighting Designer Lizzie Powell

Sound Designer Gareth Fry

Associate Designer Camilla Clarke

Assistant Director Grace Gummer

Casting Director Amy Ball

Production Manager Marius Rønning

Costume Supervisor Lucy Walshaw

Stage Manager Sunita Hinduja

Deputy Stage Manager Julia Slienger

Assistant Stage Manager Dean Rigby

SM Placement Bethany Davis

Set Built by Ridiculous Solutions & Aquarius Scaffolding

Victory Condition

by Chris Thorpe

Chris Thorpe (Writer)

For the Royal Court: The Milk of Human Kindness (& LIFT).

Theatre includes: Am I Dead Yet? (Unlimited/UK tour/International tour); The Iphigenia Quartet: Chorus (Gate); Your Best Guess (Almada Festival, Lisbon); Confirmation (Warwick Arts Centre/China Plate); Beowulf (Unicorn); There Has Possibly Been An Incident (Royal Exchange, Manchester/Soho/Edinburgh Festival Fringe/Theatertreffen, Berlin); The Oh Fuck Moment, I Wish I Was Lonely (Edinburgh Festival Fringe/Forest Fringe); What I Heard about The World (Third Angel); Overdrama (mala voadora, Lisbon).

Chris is an Associate Artist at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. Chris was a founder member of Unlimited Theatre and still works and tours with the company. He is also an Artistic Associate of Live Art/Theatre company Third Angel.

Camilla Clarke (Associate Designer)

For the Royal Court: B (as associate designer), Human Animals.

Other theatre includes: Frogman (Curious Directive/Traverse); No Place For A Woman (503); Wind Resistance (Lyceum, Edinburgh); Seagulls (Volcano).

Opera includes: The Day After, Trial By Jury (ENO).

Awards include: Linbury Prize for Stage Design 2015; Lord Williams Prize for Design; The Prince of Wales Design Scholarship.

Sharon Duncan-Brewster (Woman)

For the Royal Court: Nuclear War, Hope, Yard Gal (& Clean Break), Babies, Crave (& Paines Plough/Traverse).

Other theatre includes: Meet Me at Dawn, Swallow (Traverse); trade, A Season In The Congo (Young Vic); A Streetcar Named Desire, So Special (Royal Exchange, Manchester); The Iphigenia Quartet, Yerma (Gate); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Liverpool Everyman); The El Train (Hoxton Hall); A Few Man Friday’s (Riverside Studios); The Swan, There is a War (National); Tiger Country, Keepers (Hampstead); Detaining Justice, Seize the Day, Category B, Let There Be Love, Playboy of the West Indies (Tricycle); The Horse Marines (Theatre Royal, Plymouth); The Bacchae (National Theatre of Scotland/Lincoln Center, New York); Black Crows (Clean Break/Arcola); The Magic Carpet (Lyric, Hammersmith); Blues for Mr Charlie (Talawa/Tricycle/New Wolsey); Dirty Butterfly (Soho); Peepshow (Frantic Assembly/Plymouth/Lyric, Hammersmith); The No Boys Cricket Club (Theatre Royal Stratford East).

Television includes: The Boy With the Topknot, Doctor Who, Going Forward, Unforgotten, Cuffs, Cucumber, The Mimic, The Bible, Top Boy, Holby City, EastEnders, Shoot the Messenger, Doctors, Waking the Dead, Babyfather, Bad Girls, Casualty, Body Story, The Bill.

Film includes: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Three & Out.

Radio includes: The FBI’s Most Wanted Woman.

Opera includes: Gaddafi (ENO).

Vicky Featherstone (Director)

For the Royal Court: X, Cyprus Avenue (& Abbey, Dublin), How To Hold Your Breath, God Bless the Child, Maidan: Voices from the Uprising, The Mistress Contract, The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas; Untitled Matriarch Play, The President Has Come to See You (Open Court Weekly Rep).

Other theatre includes: What if Women Ruled the World? (Manchester International Festival); Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (& National/West End/International Tour), Enquirer (co-director), An Appointment with the Wicker Man, 27, The Wheel, Somersaults, Wall of Death: A Way of Life (co-director), The Miracle Man, Empty, Long Gone Lonesome (National Theatre of Scotland); Cockroach (National Theatre of Scotland/Traverse); 365 (National Theatre of Scotland/Edinburgh International Festival); Mary Stuart (National Theatre of Scotland/Citizens/Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh); The Wolves in the Walls (co-director) (National Theatre of S...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Performance Note
• Setting
• Chapters
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