George is just a guy.

George spends his time photocopying papers for his boss and imagining what his life could be if he actually made a change. On the way home from work George sees something he wishes he hadn’t. George just wants to forget it. George just wants to live in a bubble, with the people he imagines, the ones he dreams about. But as George loses himself in dreams of busybodies and mountaineers, the hopeless romantics, the longsuffering, and the bizarre, something, gnawing out from inside him, won’t let him forget what he saw. 

Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads meets Tales of the Unexpected and The Twilight Zone in this exciting and experimental piece of new writing. 

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Dan is a Nottingham-based Director, Writer, Theatre-maker, and Stage Manager.  He is a 2024/25 New Associate for New Perspectives. Lots of the work they create revolves around disassembling the canon through adaptation and queering narratives. Dan enjoys creating work that is abstract and surreal but that retains a human core. Dan has been playwrighting for eight years including a run of his adaptation of Woyzeck, Franz and Marie: Woyzeck Retold, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and then Nottingham Lakeside Arts, and their adaptation of Doctor Faustus which he originally directed and was recently revived in 2024 for a new production. Their script Richard of York is currently a top 10 finalist in the Carlo Annoni International Playwriting Award 2024. As a director Dan has worked on projects including Provocation by Thomas Heath (Phone Box Theatre), Rage by Simon Stephens (Nonsuch Studios’ NYPT), and Pareidolia (Phone Box Theatre), the latter of which they wrote, and put on in non-traditional spaces in 2019, then as a piece of digital theatre in 2020.

Sophie Jane Corner is an actor and physical theatre movement specialist. Sophie is a 2024/2025 New Perspectives New Associate. She studied Drama Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester (2015,2018). Since then she has gained credits within; film, theatre, commercial work and voice over with over fifty credits to her name. Her movement training continued with workshops notability, Advanced and Masterclass workshops with Frantic Assembly. She is a Vinyasa Yoga Teacher with a 200hr qualification. Her current focus is on physical theatre. She has been hired by Nottingham Playhouse as a physical theatre / movement specialist and director. Sophie is currently writing and producing her first film Hindsight, which combines her specialist skills under one format. Cornered, Sophie’s physical theatre and movement workshops will launch later this October 2024. Her latest movement director credits include Gnaw by Daniel McVey and GAPS by Sam Morris.  

Sam is a freelance lighting designer, programmer, and touring relighter based in Nottingham. He particularly enjoys creating stylised looks on stage and playing with shifts in colour. 

As lighting designer: Barbara (Mark Croasdale), Choose Your Fighter (Votive Theatre), Full Moon (GOBS Collective) 

As lighting programmer: MacPlebs (The Raymondos), Uncanny (Tilted Co), Romeo & Juliet (Lakeside Arts) 

As touring relighter: My Son’s a Queer (PTM), Subversion (Tom Dale Co), Stranger Sings (Ellis Live) 

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