UWE playwright premieres 'Salt'n' Sauce' at Alma Tavern
Issue date: 13/10/2006
Salt'n'Sauce, a new play by Bristol playwright Tim Massey, premieres at the Alma Tavern pub theatre in Clifton from 31 October to 11 November as part of Theatre West's ten-week autumn 2006 season.
Tim – who works as a part-time library assistant in the Bolland Library at UWE's Frenchay campus – was one of 40 local writers who submitted proposals on the theme of 'Inside Out' for Theatre West's annual 'Search for a Script' in the spring. The Alma Tavern's resident company picked nine of the proposals to develop into scripts, and chose Salt'n'Sauce as one of four finalists to produce this autumn.
Salt'n'Sauce centres on a wannabe playwright who runs up a stellar credit card bill to stage a play at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. But, with his archrival creaming him at the box office, a megalomaniac director with ulterior motives, and a cast and crew in near revolt, he wonders if the show really must go on.
Salt'n'Sauce is Tim's first work to be staged in Bristol since UWE's Centre for Performing Arts produced Acid Drops, a double-bill of plays, at the QEH Theatre in October 2001. He has not been taking a break from writing for the last five years, though. In 2003, his play Bacon Sandwich, which the CPA premiered at the Alma Tavern during May 2001, was chosen from more than 400 submissions for the Training and Performance Showcase (TAPS) Full-length Script Development Course. Based at Shepperton Studios in Middlesex, TAPS is a national organisation dedicated to finding and promoting new television and film writers. Tim went on to win TAPS' prestigious Drama Writer of the Year Award for Bacon Sandwich, which he received at a ceremony at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) in Piccadilly in March 2004. The Award led to him being accepted on a writing attachment with TalkbackThames later the same year.
Also in 2004, Tim completed his PhD in Creative and Critical Writing with Cardiff University, graduating in July last year. His other recent work includes Speeding, a 90-second film set at a speed date, produced in collaboration with Stephen Brown, director and producer for the Faculty of the Built Environment's Video Project, and shot in The Street Café in the New Redland building at Frenchay. The film featured in last year's Talent Circle Super Shorts Film Festival with screenings across the UK and on the internet. Tim also continues as artistic director of Southwest Scriptwriters – Bristol's leading group for writers of drama for all media – and leads the group's regular scriptwriting workshop meetings at Bristol Old Vic.
'The Alma's my favourite place to have a play performed,' Tim said. 'And it's great to be working with Theatre West; a company that has produced more new plays in recent years than any other in the whole of the South West.'
Salt'n'Sauce is at the Alma Tavern, 18-20 Alma Vale Road, BS8 2HY, at 8.30pm on Tuesday to Saturday evenings from 31 October until 11 November (no performances on Sundays and Mondays). Tickets, priced £6/£5, can be reserved by calling the booking line on 0117 946 7899. Full details of Theatre West's autumn 2006 are available online at www.theatre-west.co.uk with further information on Salt'n'Sauce at www.saltnsauce.com.
For further information, please contact Tim on 07890 710922 or email Tim.Massey@uwe.ac.uk.
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Salt'n'Sauce, a new play by Bristol playwright Tim Massey, premieres at the Alma Tavern pub theatre in Clifton from 31 October to 11 November as part of Theatre West's ten-week autumn 2006 season.