Orange Tree Theatre has today announced a new project entitled Inside/Outside, which will see six new short plays by emerging and established writers performed and live streamed from the venue’s auditorium.

The first three plays (written by Deborah Bruce, Joel Tan and Joe White) will focus on the theme ‘inside’, and will be streamed from 25-27 March. The other three plays, focussing on ‘outside’, are written by Kalungi Ssebandeke, Sonali Bhattachayya and Zoe Cooper, and will be performed from 15-17 April. The collection covers stories of estrangement, loneliness, connection, redemption, confinement and hope.  

Inside/Outside is part of OT On Screen, the venue’s digital project launched in January last year with Maya Arad Yasur’s Amsterdam.  

The venue’s artistic director Paul Miller said: “As we emerge from a bleak winter, it’s appropriate that the OT commits to new talent and new initiatives. Literary associate Guy Jones has curated a beguiling and moving series of short plays from some writers familiar to the OT and some new to us, to reboot our theatre. And these will also be our first venture into live streaming: we want to live steam all our work in the future, and this is our first step towards that. We want to be back to full scale productions that welcome audiences when it is safe. Until then, I am proud to present this new play project as the best possible way of platforming the new and emerging talent that’s vital for the future.”

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