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    Everything Not Saved (NHB Modern Plays)
    Everything Not Saved (NHB Modern Plays)
    Everything Not Saved (NHB Modern Plays)
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    Everything Not Saved (NHB Modern Plays)

    By Carys D. Coburn and Malaprop Theatre

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    Ex-lovers argue about when they were happiest, police officers rewrite history, and Rasputin dances like no one's watching. Oh, and also the Queen is there.
    We're going to feed the present to the past. It's a kind of ritual. A kind of sacrifice. Memory always is.
    Everything Not Saved by Carys D. Coburn with MALAPROP Theatre was first staged at the 2017 Dublin Fringe Festival, where it won the Georganne Aldrich Heller Award for a standout Irish artist or company that demonstrates innovation and connects with audiences. It was subsequently staged at the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
    'Malaprop Theatre play mind tricks on us… Everything Not Saved interrogates ideas about faking history, questioning absolute certainty and curating cultural memory… the company's deeply layered meta-theatricality dances a step ahead of the audience, teasing and probing' - Guardian
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNick Hern Books
    Release dateOct 26, 2023
    ISBN9781788507417
    Everything Not Saved (NHB Modern Plays)
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    Carys D. Coburn

    Carys D. Coburn (they/them) is a writer and theatre maker based in Dublin. Their plays include Boys and Girls (Dublin Fringe Festival 2013, winner of Best New Writing Award, nominated for the Stewart Parker Trust Award); Drawing Crosses on a Dusty Windowpane (Dublin Fringe 2015); Citysong (winner of the Verity Bargate Award; Abbey Theatre Dublin and Soho Theatre London 2019); Briseis after the Black and Blackcatfishmusketeer (Dublin Fringe 2016); and This is a Room (Dublin Theatre Festival 2017). They are a collaborating writer with MALAPROP Theatre, with whom they have co-written JERICHO (Bewleys Cafe Theatre, 2017), Everything Not Saved (Dublin Fringe, 2017), Before You Say Anything (Dublin Fringe, 2020), Where Sat the Lovers (Dublin Fringe, 2021) and HOTHOUSE (Dublin Fringe, 2023). Carys D. Coburn was formerly known as Dylan Coburn Gray.

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      Everything Not Saved (NHB Modern Plays) - Carys D. Coburn

      MALAPROP

      plays

      Everything Not Saved

      NICK HERN BOOKS

      London

      www.nickhernbooks.co.uk

      Contents

      Introduction

      Original Production

      Characters

      Everything Not Saved

      Company Biographies

      Copyright and Performing Rights Information

      Introduction

      It’s been a busy few years since we were awarded Spirit of Fringe at Dublin Fringe Festival for LOVE+. At the time we weren’t even a company, on the basis that a company name felt like a promise of a further show. We knew we could make LOVE+ – because we’d just done so – but we didn’t know if we could make something else.

      And then, with the award, we suddenly had to! What a wonderful vote of confidence! What a terrifying vote of confidence!

      It made sense, we felt, to take two years to make Everything Not Saved. So we could work out how we worked. To separate the idiosyncrasies of a single project – because they all have idiosyncrasies – from integral parts of the process. (That was a thing we did once, this is a thing we always do.) To work out our interests, goals, style.

      Style, in particular, is a funny thing. Get too precious about it and you fall into self-parody. Get too self-conscious about getting too precious about it, and you risk alienating people who like your stuff by not doing things you want to do out of some vague sense you have a duty to ‘innovate’. (Whatever that means.)

      Our solution was not something we sat down and worked out. It was something that emerged from two years of intense work on everything else: BlackCatfishMusketeer, JERICHO, a truly bizarre short play that we performed at a corporate fundraising dinner. (The brief: okay, so, we’re raising funds for children with haemophilia, so what if it was a retelling of the Children of Lír but instead of them turning into swans they had haemophilia and instead of their dad is a king who works for Construction Company We Can’t Legally Name In This Introduction?)

      We made shows that, in retrospect, we think share a set of priorities if not a set language. They all aim to say something about the world we live in, but to say it obliquely. To have the larger thought sneak up on you. Not because mystery is inherently more artistic, but so as to encourage reappraisal of what you thought you knew. To make you realise two disparate things are the perfect metaphor for each other. To make you think the sprawling, associative thought that you would not otherwise think.

      In funding-application speak, we often say that we ‘aim to challenge, delight and speak to the world we live in (even when imagining different ones)’. We’re lucky to have found a moderately palatable soundbite that matches up moderately well with what we really think.

      We also like this quote from Kim Stanley Robinson: ‘If you want to write a novel about our world now, you’d better write science fiction, or you will be doing some kind of inadvertent nostalgia piece; you will lack depth, miss the point, and remain confused.’

      That feels true to us. That realism is more ‘radar ping’ than ‘Book of Revelation’, a missive from where we’ve just been, a contingent truth subject to correction, a great flavour to round out a meal but never the main event. Grumio’s totes hilarious joke from the Shrew: do you want the mustard without the beef?

      ‘Contingent’ is a good word. We like sci-fi because it’s not not fantasy, because it reminds us that the present is future history and erstwhile future. Our pal Eoghan Quinn did a PhD with super-brainy cool dude Julia Jarcho, who talks about negating the present; there’s a difference between it is so and it is necessarily so. That has a political charge, finding

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