Noah Haidle – författare

Ernestine Ashworth spends her 17th birthday agonizing over her insignificance in the universe. Soon enough it's her 18th birthday. Even sooner her 41st. Her 70th. Her 101st. Five generations an infinity of dreams and one cake baked over a century.This poignant and funny play will take you through the highlights heartbreaks and extraordinary moments that make up one woman's ordinary life.

It's high school football season in America! But while the team plays under the bright lights, the marching band sits in the bleachers, providing the soundtrack for everyone else's glory.Across the course of a football season, four tuba players stuck in the back row wrestle with everything that doesn't fit into a halftime show: ambition, grief, friendship, faith, love and the strange cruelty of small-town "normal." Bleachers is a funny, ferocious, and flexible play built for schools and young actors. Equal parts marching band comedy and raw confession, the script is built to adapt, using your school's name, mascot, fight song and rivals.Your community can see itself onstage and ask, out loud: Who gets to be the main event, and what happens when the background characters of high school claim the story as their own?

There are echoes. Do you know what I mean? They were here. And then they weren't. And I have to stay here. Because this is where they were. Every thirty years, the planet Saturn returns to the same place in the universe it occupied on the day of your birth. Its arrival is said to herald pivotal events in a person's life. In Saturn Returns, we follow one man, Gustin Novak, at the ages of 28, 58 and 88, as he reaches a series of crossroads with three key women and comes to understand how the echoes of the past have defined the orbit of his life. An enthralling time-bending structure allows us to watch Gustin over a period of sixty years in a series of deftly interwoven scenes. Moving from wry humour to touching poignancy, this new play from one of American theatre's brightest new voices unashamedly looks for answers to life's big questions.

Includes the plays Rag and Bone, Mr Marmalade and Vigils'Precocious and formidably talented' (The New Yorker), Noah Haidle is now considered 'one of the most foremost playwrights of his generation' (Boston Globe). This collection celebrates the arrival of Haidle's virtuosic theatrical talent by bringing together three of his most acclaimed plays to date.Rag and Bone , in which two brothers run an under-the-counter business in human hearts and emotions - 'delightful moments of absurdity' (New York Times)Mr Marmalade, in which four-year-old Lucy delivers a crash-course in contemporary relationships, 'alternately hilarious and heartbreaking' (The New Yorker)and Vigils, 'a simple, sweet exploration of human memory and grief' (Variety)