Kenny Emson – författare

Four inspirational tales of Essex resilience intertwine to make an unmissable world premiere by the region’s most exciting playwrights.The Essex Princess by Anne OdekeIt’s 1908 and Joanna’s planning to provoke the attention of Southend and the whole of the nation, by becoming the first black woman to compete in a beauty pageant.Fiza by Guleraana MirFiza’s moved home with her parents. Under dire circumstances… At nearly 40. Will she pick herself up in time for the dreaded school reunion?Never Never Land by Kenny EmsonTag’s out with the lads in 1998 – it’s his last night as a proper Essex boy. But there are last nights, and there are last nights.Everybody Gets Born by Sadie HaslerDaisy’s having a baby.Yep, right now.Actually having a baby.The drugs kick in, the room goes fuzzy, and Daisy finds herself back in 1978… in her mum’s glam band.

‘Today’s the dayYes it isReebok Classic of a day todayYes.It.Is.’Kev used to be captain of the school football team. Scored the winner in the All-Essex Schools Cup Final. He used to have a girlfriend called Lisa; she wore a fitted blazer, and lit up the playground.Ben used to get beaten up most days. He stole money from his mum’s purse to pay off Wicksy.Then there was Ben’s mate Jack. Loyal, unbreakable Jack.An unflinchingly honest new drama about the kids who survived school, and those who didn’t, Plastic premiered at the Old Red Lion Theatre, London, in 2018 before transferring to the Mercury Theatre, Colchester, produced by Poleroid Theatre and directed by Josh Roche.Kenny Emson is a BAFTA Award-nominated screenwriter and playwright. His other plays include Terrorism (Bush Theatre) and This Must Be the Place with Brad Birch (Winner of Show of the Year at VAULT Festival 2017).‘Emson writes with wit and fine emotional precision… holds you gripped throughout’ Financial Times on Terrorism

‘Rule number eleven: We don’t talk about them. Not here. They don’t exist here.’Nadia and Daniel have a secret. In fact they have quite a few. They've just signed on the dotted line for a studio flat. Under a pseudonym, naturally – Mr and Mrs White.After years of school pick-ups, TV takeaways, and the day-to-day drudgery of married life, this is their chance to wipe the slate clean. But as much as they try and redefine the rules, and themselves, the outside world is closing in.Ultra-contemporary, sexy and funny, Kenny Emson's play Rust pushes the boundaries of trust, love and lust to the limit. Rust premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, ahead of transferring to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and HighTide Festival in 2019, in a co-production between the Bush and HighTide.

Rory and Gemma break in to the Mersea Island RNLI station on Halloween. He wants to run away to London. She wants him to notice that she’s not drinking. Over the course of the next thirty-four years the consequences of that night will tear their lives apart.A haunting new play about family ties, grief and forgiveness.‘a superbly well tuned piece of writing’ Evening Standard on Terrorism'The best piece of new writing currently on the London stage' Aleks Sierz on Plastic