The Brink

Description

It's what life does to you. We don't have time to waste. Worrying over the small stuff while the big stuff takes its toll. You're living and then . . . boom. At 27, History teacher Nick is on the edge. A hidden secret lies under the Brink. Nick can't get it out of his mind. A series of visions force Nick to investigate what lies beneath. Nick's girlfriend doesn't understand. Neither do his fellow teachers. Frustrated, he confides in a Year 10 student but can she be expected to have all the answers? The Brink is an arch but affecting parable for the times we live in. This edition was published to coincide with the play's world premiere at the Orange Tree Theatre, London, in April 2016.

Brad Birch is the writer in residence at Undeb Theatre and on attachment at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Brad's work has been produced by Theatre Powys, Sherman Cymru, Theatre503, Dirty Protest, the Royal Court, the Arcola and the Lyric. Brad is a graduate of the Royal Court's Young Writers' Programme and subsequent progressions including the prestigious "Supergroup" and was a member of Sherman Cymru's New Writers' and Advanced Writers' groups in 2010, and afterwards one of Theatre503's "Five". His play Even Stillness Breathes Softly Against a Brick Wall was published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama in 2013, while Gardening: For the Unfulfilled and Alienated features in Contemporary Welsh Plays (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015).