Tony Campion's Drama WRECK to Premiere at Nottingham Playhouse This Autumn

Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company and Fifth Word present Wreck, written by Toby Campion and directed by Alexandra Moxon.

"I'm telling you what happened! But you don't - no one believes me."

An easy-going Nottingham lad boards a train, fresh from visiting his girlfriend. His world is flipped upside down when the train never completes its journey.

As first impressions derail and his stories of what happened veer off course, can we trust him to lead us to the truth? Can we trust ourselves to see it?

Wreck is an edge-of-your-seat, fast-paced drama about a young man suddenly thrust into the most desperate of circumstances.

Written by Leicester poet Toby Campion, winner of the 2015 Fifth Word Most Promising Playwright Award, this emotionally raw thriller will challenge your perceptions of our world and the stories behind the headlines.

Making her directorial debut at Nottingham Playhouse, Alexandra Moxon, Director of Wreck, said: "I am delighted to be back in my home town Nottingham after a year away training at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. I feel incredibly fortunate to be welcomed back to Nottingham Playhouse to direct my first piece of work, since completing my MA in Directing, and I am very much looking forward to returning to the Playhouse."

Playwright Toby Campion said: "I am hugely honoured to have received the Fifth Word Theatre award for Most Promising Playwright and I am very excited that Wreck is being put on at Nottingham Playhouse. Wreck was the first play I ever wrote. The idea came to me when I was travelling by train back from Edinburgh, where I was living at the time, to Leicester, where I grew up. The play deals with grief, suspicion and fear through the story of one young man who is caught up in a situation beyond his control, in which he becomes more and more embroiled. I hope to take the audience on a journey, one which is as gripping and unpredictable for them as it is for our protagonist who narrates it."

IF YOU GO:

WRECK
At Neville Studio
Wednesday 20 September - Saturday 30 September
Evenings 8pm; Matinees 2pm
Press Night Thursday 21 September 7pm

BOX OFFICE INFORMATION:
www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk
0115 941 9419

About Alexandra Moxon
Since graduating from her degree in Theatre and Performance at the University of Warwick, Alex spent several years at Nottingham Playhouse, working extensively in participation and outreach. Whilst there, she wrote and produced a series of pantomimes that toured to a local care home for those with dementia and became project manager on Wave, an adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest, for young people with learning disabilities and autism. Alex also assisted with the coordination of the Introduction to Directing course at Nottingham Playhouse as funded by the Regional Theatre Young Directors' Scheme. Alex has recently completed an MA in Drama Directing at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Alex's credits include: The Duchess of Malfi (Nottingham Playhouse), The Snow Queen (Bristol Old Vic), Our Town (Circomedia) and Under Milk Wood (West Country Tour) as Assistant Director and, as Director, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me (Bristol Old Vic Theatre School) and Sex with a Stranger (Directors' Cut Season, Bristol).

About Toby Campion
Described by BBC Sunday Politics as "the voice of a generation", Toby Campion is the current UK National Poetry Slam Champion. Raised in the Midlands, Toby performs his poetry internationally and his unapologetic words and wit have captured audiences at iconic UK venues, from the Royal Albert Hall to Glastonbury festival. Director of UniSlam and UK representative for a number of international literature events, Toby's debut collection will be published in October with Burning Eye Books.

Nottingham Playhouse has been one of the United Kingdom's leading producing theatres since its foundation in 1948. It welcomes over 130,000 ticket buyers through its doors annually and has an additional footfall of 170,000 visitors to participation events and to Anish Kapoor's stunning Sky Mirror. It creates productions large and small, from timeless classics and enthralling family shows to adventurous new commissions, often touring work nationally and internationally. Its production of The Kite Runner has had two West End's transfers, at both the Wyndham's and Playhouse Theatres and will embark on a UK tour in 2017.

Fifth Word is an associate company at Nottingham Playhouse and is run by joint artistic directors Laura Ford and Angharad Jones. They produce and tour ambitious new plays from the most exciting voices around the UK. Fifth Word's most recent productions include: All The Little Lights by Jane Upton (UK tour, 2016), Bones by Jane Upton (Edinburgh festival, 2011, UK tour, 2012), and Amateur Girl by Amanda Whittington (UK tour 2014).