Hungry Minds Brings Callum Tibury's Ridiculous Comedy FABULOUS NOTHING to the Gymnasium at #NAF16

Hungry Minds Productions will present Callum Tilbury's FABULOUS NOTHING. Subtitled "a play about something", the script was nominated for a Muse Award earlier this year.

In FABULOUS NOTHING, a writer wants to write a play. She grapples with the fickle thoughts inside her own head. But what's the point? It will never be Shakespeare. A ridiculously comic and bittersweet romp through the vast empty brain of a writer struggling to write, Tilbury's play provides an in-depth look at the inside of a writer's brain, where nothing exists but thought, in all its potential.

FABULOUS NOTHING takes a closer look at the insecurity of a writer's brain in a riotous tale of a writer with nothing to write. There is a profoundly turbulent moment in between having an idea and writing it down. The idea can change. It can grow, it can shrink, it can morph into something else entirely. But how does one know when it is good enough? How a writer know that it cannot be bettered? How can one be sure it is the best idea it can possibly be? Playwrights desperately want to write plays. Good plays. Valuable plays. But what about? If a playwright doesn't know, then should she be writing at all? Or, must she write because she is a writer, and writers must write?

Directed by Blythe Stuart Linger, the cast of FABULOUS NOTHING features Tankiso Mamabolo, Shalima Mkongi, Kiroshan Naidoo and Aneshree Paul. Costume design and construction is by Gail Stacey with wardrobe assistant, Olivia Galley.

There are five performances of FABULOUS NOTHING at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, , where it will be staged at the Gymnasium: 5 July at 12:00, 6 July at 22:30, 7 July at 22:00, 8 July at 16:00 and 9 July at 17:30. Tickets cost R70 and can be booked online at the National Arts Festival website, by calling the box office on 0860 002 004, or at any box office stand in Grahamstown during the festival.

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