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Nathan Ellis

work.txt

A brilliantly imagined award-winning celebration of everything that is wrong about work and everything that is right about being playful together. Also good for the faint-hearted! A perfect post-Covid park performance.

Entrance
€ 15,-
Duration
60 minutes
Language
Dutch
Location
Atlas - Noorderplantsoen
Accessibility
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© Alex Brenner

This is a show about work.

But the worker isn’t here, so it’s down to you.
You’ll clock in at the beginning.
You’ll get short breaks at regular intervals.
You’ll work in a team.
You will be your own boss. You will be free. 

The performance explores themes around contemporary work, automation and the always-on working culture. Somewhere, in some city, a person has just decided to lie down and stop working. But why? And what happens next?  

Dates

Friday 18 August

Available times

21:15

Saturday 19 August

Available times

21:15

Sunday 20 August

Available times

21:15
© Alex Brenner
© Alex Brenner
© Alex Brenner
© Alex Brenner

About the artist

Nathan Ellis is a writer for stage and screen.His first play No One Is Coming to Save You opened in Edinburgh in 2018. This play was called a ‘blazing debut’ in The Guardian and went on a national tour in 2019. With this play, he was invited to be a member of the Royal Court Invitation Writers’ Supergroup 2018-19 led by Alice Birch and Ali McDowall, a twelve monthprogramme of support. He also received Arts Council Funding to support research into European Playwriting practices, which took him to Avignon, Ljubljana, Belgrade, and Berlin. In 2019, he made work.txt, a play with no actors, at the Yard Theatre as part of their Live Drafts programme of new work. In 2020 his play SUPER HIGH RESOLUTION, about a doctor on the edge of a breakdown, was Shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award and was performed at Soho Theatre in 2022 directed by Blanche McIntyre. It entered the repertoire of Staatstheater Kassel in 2023, directed by Manon Pfrunder. He is a current member of the BBC Writersroom Drama Room.