PRESENT PRODUCTIONS

SHORT SHRIFTS

12 Short Plays by Peter Oswald

Attention Seekers is delighted to present the London première of SHORT SHRIFTS a series of beautiful, grotesque and comic short plays written by Peter Oswald. In an evening of absurd encounters, we enter a surreal, ever twisting World where a female spy is interviewed, an out-of-control dummy vents spleen at her ventriloquist, a middle class dinner for cannibals goes wrong and a bull fight occurs in an office.

With a repertoire of more than thirty short plays, the poetry of Alice Oswald, the cabaret skills of Josephine Larsen and the improvisational genius of Martin Holland, the company presents a show that is constantly evolving.

“Our most surprising and inventive playwright”
Theatre Record

“Playwright Peter Oswald's Short Shrifts is satirical, sober or surreal, sometimes all at once.”
“…protean actor Josephine Larsen.”
“Martin Holland provides both evocative live musical accompaniment and jolly character cameos.”
“...cryptic yet crystalline interventions by poet Alice Oswald.”
Donald Hutera, The Times

After a successful run at the English Theatre Berlin and Soho Theatre London, Attention Seekers are currently planning a more comprehensive tour of Short Shrifts for 2012.