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COMEDY/DRAMA

Tues 28 Sept 2010 at 8pm

Women Behaving Madly

The MsFits Theatre Co

Tickets: €15/€10
Friends: personal 3 for 2, couples 4 for 2, business 6 for 3

The MsFits (award winning writer Rona Munro and actress Fiona Knowles) present their hilarious one-woman comedy thriller: three women, one very short temper and something extremely sinister in the shrubbery.

Ever felt mad enough to kill someone? The queue jumper? The ex who made you feel small and shabby? The council official who cut your services and won’t take your calls? The people who never listen to a word you say...and make you want to scream?!?

Warm hearted care-worker Joyce doesn't give in to those feelings, even when provoked by irritating old women like Bella. Her other client Rita doesn't - she hasn't a bad bone in her body. But Bella is a whole different story… but surely she doesn't have it in her to be a killer? Is it more than just compost that's making her garden grow so well?

“Knowles, superb comedienne and inspirational actress” BBC Radio Lincs

“Munro & Knowles have carved a niche in creating funny and accessible drama” The List

About the author

Rona Munro is one of Scotland's most successful playwrights. A multi award winner for her play Bold Girls, radio plays Watching Waiters and Dirt Under The Carpet and stage play The Maiden Stone which won the Peggy Ramsay Award. She received a Thames Television Award and wrote the award winning Ken Loach film Ladybird, Ladybird.

In 2009 she wrote an adaptation of The House of Bernarda Alba for The National Theatre of Scotland and The Last Witch for The Edinburgh International Festival. She's written a film, soon to be released, Oranges & Sunshine, with Emily Watson in the lead.

TV credits include Casualty, Dr Who (she wrote the last ever episode of the original series which ended in 1999 with Sylvestor McCoy as The Doctor), Men of the Month and BAFTA nominated Bumping the Odds.

Her film Aimee & Jaguar was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and won two Silver Bear Awards. She wrote Snake for Hampstead Theatre and an adaptation of The House of Bernarda Alba for Shared Experience Theatre Co.

Iron was premiered by the Traverse Theatre in 2002 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to rave reviews and transferred to The Royal Court in London and was the Guardian's Best play of 2002. Iron has recently been produced in Hamburg, Singapore, Brazil, Athens and Japan. Bold Girls and Iron were both produced in Manhattan and have had rave reviews in the New Yorker.

Her most recent film REHAB was screened by the BBC in 2003. She has been commissioned by, among others, The National Theatre, The RSC and The Royal Court; for TV, Catherine Bailey Ltd and for Film, 4Way Pictures. Productions for 2006 included adaptations of Strawberries in January for the Traverse Theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe, Mary Barton for Manchester Royal Exchange, Watership Down for The Lyric Hammersmith, Long Time Dead for Paines Plough and Indian Boy for the RSC. Her latest play for RSC will be produced in 2011.

http://www.msfits.co.uk/