Shrapnel Theatre Returns to VAULT Festival with THE LITTERATI

Following the success of their Edinburgh Festival season, and riding on the 2016 hit Underground, Shrapnel Theatre returns to VAULT Festivalin 2017 with The Litterati, reuniting director Kate Tiernan and writer Isla van Tricht with a brand new story of riots, hedonism and human potential.

"There's no space for us to create anything. Don't you see? No allowances, no opportunities. No space. So I'm asking you a question: How do you make space? Hmm? How do you make space for yourself in this world?

"The answer: You burn."

Millie lives with her girlfriend, Hattie, who works in insurance in the City. Millie wants to be a serious journalist. At VICE.

Now's her chance - she's got to write an investigatory piece about the Litterati, a notorious community of which little is known but rumour. When Millie agrees to spend a week with the mysterious gang her world is blown open and she collides with experiences and people she can never forget.

Pushed underground by a world that didn't want them, the Litterati live a clandestine existence so far removed from Millie's sheltered experience of the world. But do those who fall behind always get left behind?

Writer Isla van Tricht is also artistic director of Shrapnel. Her recent plays include Underground (VAULT 2016) and The Remnants: As Thyself and Threadbare (Above the Arts; Edinburgh Festival), and beyond theatre is a regular speaker in schools and colleges around the country.

Kate Tiernan is a director, writer and artist, who will be undertaking a residency at Metal in 2017. This is Tiernan's third collaboration with Shrapnel, after they first worked together on new writing event Paperwork in 2015, and Underground in 2016.

Shrapnel Theatre is a London-based producer, launching in 2015 with the 25th London anniversary of Jim Cartwright's Two. In 2016, Shrapnel made their VAULT Festival debut with Underground, and produced four productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe including The D-List by David Hendon (Underbelly) and Hummingbird (associate producer, ZOO).