by Neil Bristow - a staged reading with Jan Kuzminski, Peter G. Cotton and Tom Strauss

 

Natalie has lived all her life at home with her oppressive father Gerd. When Gerd has a breakdown and has to leave his firm, Natalie sees a potential way out – by starting an affair with her father’s successor Georg. What follows is a subtle war of attrition between old and young, the past and the present, with Natalie in the middle as the potential prize. But who of the three is really in control? Who is the user and who is being used? In this three-way struggle for power, each character must fight for their own identity and even, in the end, their own survival…

 

Neil Bristow grew up in Dublin, Ireland and studied English Literature at university. He has a previous commission from one of Dublin’s leading theatre companies and had a staged reading at the Dublin Theatre Festival. He has lived on and off in Berlin for several years, and also works as a script  reader. Double Bound is his third play.