Clockwork - Laura Poliakoff

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Résumé :
Old friends Carl and Mikey must say their farewells this evening as Mikey makes plans to leave the care home that has become their new stomping ground. Troll Face just wants to keep things running to time and Etienne is forced to see out his community service with two old geezers scrounging for fags.
Shut away from a world where pensioners steal in order to feed themselves and dreaming of a youthspent in the dingy corner of a seedy club, two lifelong friends are forced to say their goodbyes. Whenmemory is fading and the past is clouded with a lifetime of drink and drugs, what is true and how to live is called into question.
Laura Poliakoff's debut play is a powerful call-to-arms for a generation of twenty-year-olds not considering their own old age. How we care for our elderly, where we put them and the sacrifices that are made fuels this often comic yet touching play....

Biographie:
Laura Poliakoff is a graduate of Bristol University and the National Film and Television School. Her workincludes the screenplays, Prude and Bertie Crisp, the short play Ragnarok and the television serialLimehouse. Clockwork is her first full-length play....

Sommaire:

Laura Poliakoff is a British writer. After graduating from Bristol University, she worked as a freelance researcher on a variety of film and TV projects. She returned to London to take up a place on the Screenwriting course at The National Film and Television School, graduating in February 2011. Scripts include: Prude (2011), an original screenplay. Film and TV credits: Bertie Crisp NFTS graduation film (2011). Poliakoff was also co-writer of 10' short animation with director Francesca Adams, starring Kathy Burke, Mark Benton and Tamsin Greig. Theatre Credits include: Pablo, a 13' short performed at The Hen and Chickens Theatre, directed by Miriam Lucia. Clockwork, her first full length play, received its first performance at the HighTide Festival, Halesworth, Suffolk
on 4 May 2012