MY ROMANTIC HISTORY
by D C JACKSON
August/September 2011
directed by Jude Christian / with Lorna Jones, Pip Swallow and Chris Davis / set and costume design by Laurin Kelsey / light design by Katri Kuusimäki / image by Anna Clark
Check out three reviews at EXBERLINER and BANGBANGBERLIN and on ARTIBERLIN.DE !
“I suppose there comes a point when you have to face that you’re just ‘that age’ and that if you’ve got a man who isn’t a retard, a rapist or a Rangers supporter then he’s probably about the best you’re going to get.”
My Romantic History by D C Jackson takes a sharp, hilarious and affectionate look at modern relationships and the rocky road to true love. Office colleagues Tom and Amy´s drunken one-night stand seems to be morphing into a full-blown relationship before their very eyes, but before they can face the future, they’ll have to deal with the ghosts of relationships past…
“The genius of this play is that it acknowledges the ambivalence of postmodern sexual lives - the lack of commitment, the coldness, the sense that reality never quite measures up to some plastic ideal - while simultaneously overcoming all that with the wit, the humanity, the ability to laugh, learn, and move on, that is the real redeeming quality of our species. Jackson's clear-eyed but brilliant comic invention is a joy, as is his inimitable way with words.” The Scotsman
Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2010 - now in a new production by English Theatre Berlin.
First produced by The Bush Theatre and Sheffield Theatres in association with Birmingham Repertory Theatre on 5th August 2010 at the Traverse Theatre Edinburgh.
D C JACKSON is a Glasgow-based writer. His plays include The Wall (2008), The Ducky (2009) and The Chooky Brae (2010), a trilogy of plays written for Borderline Theatre, Glasgow); Company Policy (2010), Out on the Wing (2008), Matinee Idle (2006) and Drawing Bored (2006), all for the A Play, A Pie and A Pint series at Oran Mor, Glasgow, and My Romantic History (Bush Theatre and Sheffield Theatres, 2010). He has written for BBC Radio Scotland and Radio 4. He is currently under commission to the Royal Court Theatre and the National Theatre of Scotland.
Her previous directing includes: Bonfires by Alice Birch (The Miniaturists, Arcola Theatre, London), Love and Money by Dennis Kelly (London Business School), Last Easter by Bryony Lavery (RADA), Stand and Deliver (improvised play) and City of Angels (Aylesbury Vale Youth Theatre). Jude is based in London and Berlin.
