Myth
Myth
Matt Hartley
Kirsty Housley
In one wine-fuelled evening, two couples debate their materialistic lifestyle. As their dinner party descends into chaos, their friendship and their lives are irreparably changed. A theatrical experiment into those things we don’t want to see or say.
Available
2017
978-1-78682-217-8
Drama
Oberon Books Ltd.
Matt Hartley
Matt Hartley grew up in the Peak District and studied Drama at the University of Hull. His first play “Sixty Five Miles” won a Bruntwood Award in the inaugural Bruntwood Competition and was produced by Paines Plough/Hull Truck in 2012.
Other theatre works include: “Eyam” (Shakespeare’s Globe, 2018); “Here I Belong” (Pentabus Theatre tour, 2016); “Deposit” (Hampstead Theatre Downstairs, 2015); “Microcosm” (Soho Theatre, 2014); “Horizon” (National Theatre Connections, 2014); “The Bee” (Edinburgh Festival, 2008); “Punch” (Hampstead/Heat and Light Company); and “Epic”, “Trolls” and “Life for Beginners” (all at Theatre503, London). He has written “Hollyoaks” for television and his radio plays include “The Pursuit” and “Final Call”.
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Kirsty Housley
Kirsty Housley is a director, writer and dramaturg. Recent work includes “Extinct” for Theatre Royal Stratford East, “The Long Goodbye Livestream” for Manchester International Festival and Wetransfer, “Tao of Glass” at The Royal Exchange for Manchester International Festival (co-directed with Phelim McDermott), “Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran” at Sundance Film Festival, BAC and The Traverse, Edinburgh (co-created with Javaad Alipoor); “Avalanche: A Love Story” at Sydney Theatre, “I’m a Phoenix, Bitch” (co-directed with Bryony Kimmings), and “Mephisto (A Rhapsody)” at The Gate.
Other plays include “The Encounter for Complicite” (co-directed with Simon McBurney); “Misty” at The Bush and in the West End; “The Believers are but Brothers” at the Bush, Ovalhouse, West Yorkshire Playhouse Transform17 Season and Northern Stage Edinburgh (as co-director); “Myth” at the RSC (co-written with Matt Hartley and available at DCPAS); and “A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer” for Complicite at the National Theatre and Home Manchester.
Housley was the recipient of the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award for Cue Deadly, a Live Film Project, and the Title Pending award for innovation at Northern Stage. She won The Stage award for Innovation in 2017 for “The Encounter” and was nominated again in 2018 for “The Believers are but Brothers”.
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