George Devine Award
for Most Promising Playwright
Arts Council England Writer's Award for Drama
Ché's latest play The
Frontline will premiere at Shakespeare's Globe in London on
July 06 and will run to August 17, 2008.
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Saturday night outside the tube; god, strip bars, weed,
crack, lost old men, unemployed actors and vegans all
collide in a riptide of chaos on the streets of London.
There’s Beth the reformed Christian and Erkenwald the
hot-dog seller, old Ragdale on a quest to find his
daughter, Mordechai Thurrock the actor-playwright and
egomaniac, and Cockburn, Elliot and Clayton the dealers and
junkies, whose trade both sustains and destroys the lives
of those around them.
In this vibrant and blackly comic new play, a dozen private
stories emerge, and their voices give utterance to a storm
of subjects and feelings: pop culture and sexual fantasy,
the ruins of empire and the delusions of religion, foreign
oil and prehistoric London encompassing the cruel and the
tender, the gutter and the stars.
His first play, Been So
Long, premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 1998 and was
runner-up for both the Meyer-Whitworth and the John
Whitting Award before being translated and performed in
Sweden, Denmark, Germany, New Zealand and Australia.
His play, Flesh Wound, premiered at the Royal Court in 2003
and won the George Devine Award for Most Promising
Playwright.
Ché studied acting at the Webber Douglas Academy in London
(1989-1992 graduating with Distinction) and at WAC (1998),
and has worked with Edward Bond, Dennis Potter, Philip
Ridley, Mark Ravenhill and Ricky Gervais, among others.
Ché has taught acting at RADA, Central, E15 and the Arts
Project for Socially Excluded Youth, he has been Head of
Acting at the Weekend Arts College for over ten years. He
has taught writing for the Royal Court Young Writers'
Programme, in the Feltham Young Offenders' Institute, at
the Centre Point Homeless Shelter, and for Hampstead
Theatre Youth Project.