The Author won a Total Theatre Award for Innovation for its sell-out run at the Traverse Theatre during the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe.
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The Author wins Total Theatre Awardposted on August 31, 2010
The Author 2010 tour kicks off at the Edinburgh Festivalposted on June 30, 2010
After the successful Royal Court run in 2009, The Author is hitting the road for an extensive European tour for the summer and autumn 2010.
Chris Goode will be joining the original cast of Tim Crouch, Vic Llewellyn and Esther Smith.
The Author audience and Esther Smith (standing) photo ©Stephen Cummiskey
The show opens on 5 Aug and runs until Sunday 29 August at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. It then goes on to Finland, Brighton, Oxford, Bristol, Newcastle, Coventry, Budapest, Leeds, Birmingham, Manchester, Lisbon, plus one other major European city that we’re not allowed to mention yet…
For full tour details, please go to our tour dates page.
Tim Crouch wins best actor awardposted on June 2, 2010
After the successful run of i, malvolio at the Brighton Festival, Tim picked up the Latest 7 best actor award. He was unable to pick it up in person as he was returning from an epic week of fourteen performances of i, malvolio and i, peaseblossom in Singapore.
He has put the award on his kitchen shelf next to the one he won in 2006 for an oak tree.
my arm goes to Germanyposted on March 16, 2010
my arm will be performed on 26 and 27 April 2010 in Oldenberg, Germany, as part of the PAZZ International Performing Arts Festival,
Coming upposted on March 1, 2010
Exciting things are in store for The Author. Watch this space for more details.
Tim Crouch Radio 4 Playposted on February 8, 2010
Postcards from a Cataclysm, nine short plays about global annihilation, will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Wednesday 10 Feb at 14.15. You can download the individual plays, which are available immediately after broadcast for one week. Tim Crouch wrote one of them. Read More
LA Weekly Articleposted on January 21, 2010
“Welcome to the land of fictions that are both deluded and restorative — removing us from prosaic realities while helping us to find ourselves at the same time. Welcome to the theater.“
Steven Leigh Morris has written a wonderful article about the LA run of an oak tree. Read on…
an oak tree going down a storm in LAposted on January 12, 2010
an oak tree is selling out and getting great reviews. Check the special an oak tree LA website for full details, but here’s a few tasters:
- “Its brilliance is unfettered and inexplicably moving, for being such a head-trip.” (LA Weekly, where it’s a Recommended Event).
- “Crouch’s multilayered play is as much a master class in acting as it is an intriguing meta-theatrical exercise.” (LA Times.)
The play runs until February 14 at the Odyssey Theatre, LA. Some very interesting second actors are being lined up….
an oak tree in LAposted on December 8, 2009
An Oak Tree Opens at The Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles January 6th-February 14 2010.
Tim Crouch will be appearing in the long-anticipated LA run of an oak tree, along with a different second actor every night. The Los Angeles production has some incredible actors from film, television and theatre lined up. In keeping with the demands of the play, the particular actors who will be appearing will not be announced in advance of the performance.
Are you an actor interested in performing in ANY OAK TREE, or do you know someone who might be? We are always looking for new actors to participate. If you are interested, please contact our casting director, Stephanie Klapper at Klapper Casting.
The Author got some great reviews!posted on October 1, 2009
Missed it? Catch it at the Edinburgh Festival and national tour in 2010. Details will be posted shortly.
“It’s about us, what we see, and what we choose to see…this is a dazzling theatrical experience that lets nobody off the hook, opening our eyes to what should be blindingly obvious: we all have a choice.”
Lyn Gardner in The Guardian
