Jordan Tannahill – författare

Länk 2024 är den sjunde upplagan av den antologi som ges ut i samband med Riksteaterns stora ungdomsprojekt. Länk fortsätter att ta fram nyskriven dramatik av de vassaste dramatikerna till ungdomsensembler runtom i Sverige och Norden. Årets antologi bjuder på tre nyskrivna pjäser av svenska dramatiker där vi riktigt får grotta ner oss i mysterium, tragedier och hemligheter. Utöver det presenterar vi en dystopisk framtidsberättelse i brittisk översättning och plockar upp en gammal favorit från Länk 2020. Dessutom får vi med oss en extra pjäs från Länk special 2023 då vi fokuserade på klimatet och kampen. Sex pjäser som passar perfekt till både små och stora grupper, som ger varje skådespelare sitt utrymme och som öppnar upp för fantasi och kreativitet.

Pjäser och dramatiker i Länk 2024:

Agatha av Lucia Cajchanova

Ända tills du dör av Oda Fiskum

Demoner av Lovisa T. Onnermark

De äldsta av Deborah Pearson

Is My Microphone On? av Jordan Tannahill

Glöm aldrig Trine av Dag Thelander

How dull plays are killing theatre and what we can do about it.

Had I become disenchanted with the form I had once fallen so madly in love with as a pubescent, pimple-faced suburban homo with braces? Maybe theatre was like an all-consuming high school infatuation that now, ten years later, I saw as the closeted balding guy with a beer gut he’d become. There were of course those rare moments of transcendencethat kept me coming back. But why did they come so few and far between?

A lot of plays are dull. And one dull play, it seems, can turn us off theatre for good. Playwright and theatre director Jordan Tannahill takes in the spectrum of English-language drama – from the flashiest of Broadway spectacles to productions mounted in scrappy storefront theatres – to consider where lifeless plays come from and why they persist. Having travelled the globe talking to theatre artists, critics, passionate patrons and the theatrically disillusioned, Tannahill addresses what he considers the culture of ‘risk aversion’ paralyzing the form.

Theatre of the Unimpressed is Tannahill’s wry and revelatory personal reckoning with the discipline he’s dedicated his life to, and a roadmap for a vital twenty-first-century theatre – one that apprehends the value of ‘liveness’ in our mediated age and the necessity for artistic risk and its attendant failures. In considering dramaturgy, programming and alternative models for producing, Tannahill aims to turn theatre from an obligation to a destination.

‘[Tannahill is] the poster child of a new generation of (theatre? film? dance?) artists for whom "interdisciplinary" is not a buzzword, but a way of life.’ —J. Kelly Nestruck, Globe and Mail

‘Jordan is one of the most talented and exciting playwrights in the country, and he will be a force to be reckoned with for years to come.’ —Nicolas Billon, Governor General''s Award–winning playwright (Fault Lines)