Max Wilkinson
playwright/screenwriter
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RAINER
Arcola Theatre, London, October 2021
Arcola Theatre, Future Full Length Run, June 2022
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Award-winning, Offie-nominated Rainer is about a voyeuristic delivery rider as she charges about London one night. And the invisible person who we always see.
★★★★ The Stage, “Smart and original Writing”
★★★★★ Indiependent, “A glorious love-letter to London”
★★★★★ Spy in the Stalls, “Impossible to Ignore” – Awarded Best show of 2021
★★★★★ Lost in Theatre Land,
★★★★★ Theatre Weekly
★★★★ Hackney Gazette
The Guardian, “We need to follow these various and ample talents.”
Lyn Gardner’s Top Pick of the Week, June
Published by Methuen, Bloomsbury. Buy a copy here
TEACHING
2022, The Arcola Theatre, Course Leader - Write a Play on the Theme of London. 2022, Theatre Peckham, Course Leader - Playwriting Lab: Local Legends.
2022, King’s College London, Lecturer - How to be a Playwright
2022, Met Film School, Professor - BA Filmmaking Course, Screenwriting (Permanent) 2021, Flux Theatre, Course Leader - Playwriting Lab
2020, The Yard Theatre, Course Leader - Lockdown Playwriting Lab
2020, The Southwark Playhouse, Course Leader – Lockdown Playwriting Lab
2020, The Gate Theatre, Course Leader – Lockdown Playwriting Lab
2017-19, The Southwark Playhouse, Course Leader – Primary Playwrights Course 2015-22, Inkhead Creative Writing, Workshops Leader – Playwriting and Creative Writing
100 WAYS THE FIRE STARTS
Theatre 503, London, Jan 2018
Paines Plough (Reading), July 2018
Arcola Theatre (Reading), August 2018
Old Red Lion, Full Length Run, 2022 TBC
A finalist for the Nick Darke Award, Papatango's Prize for New Writing and Theatre Uncut's Prize for Political Writing, 100 Ways the Fire Starts is about the apocalypse and why we love it.
London. A high-rise flat. Bella and Leon are having a party: apocalypse themed. But when an old friend shows up, a man is found bleeding in the lift, when fires start; they have to question what is real and what is not.
GHOST FRUIT
Camden People's Theatre, London, Jan 2019
Potrva Theatre Residency in Prague, August 2018
Ghost Fruit is about a man who cannot stand the present so he invents a fantasy world of the past. He believes he is Franz Kafka living in the Twenties. That is until everything falls apart.
The Performance Rights of Ghost Fruit were bought by Pennway Productions.
Pennway Productions is now commissioning Max to write a feature film screenplay with a high budget.
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HONG KONG CITY
The King's Head Theatre, London, May 2017
Inspired by the Chinese restaurant on the Old Kent Road, Hong Kong City is about the ever shifting face of London and the winners and losers of gentrification.
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WANNSEE
The Bridewell Theatre, London, August 2015
The Courtyard Theatre, London, June 2015
Wannsee is a love letter to Berlin: a city of ghosts, dossers, artists and way too much history.
Central Saint Martins Final Degree show, London,
August 2014
First Play. A scathing letter on the hypocrisy and emptiness
of counter-culture.
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