Spooky Action at a Distance (Multiplay Drama)

A hard-hitting, poignant play about anti-immigration sentiment in Britain today. A fascist demonstration and anti-fascist counter-demo are held in Dover. Bricks are thrown. Tweets are sent. Windows are broken. So are faces. Before and after, near and far, people struggle to understand what happened, and the part they played. Spooky Action at a Distance was first performed at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, created in association with the Royal Court Theatre, before performances at the Gate Theatre, London. Multiplay Drama is an exciting new series of large-cast plays, specifically written to be performed by and appeal to older teenagers and young adults.

Eve Leigh is a playwright and theatre-maker. Plays include The Trick (Bush Theatre/Hightide National Tour), Spooky Action at a Distance (Royal Court/RWCMD/Gate Theatre, London), Stone Face (Finborough), Silent Planet (Finborough), The Curtain and Plunder (both Young Vic Taking Part), Enough (Birmingham REP Young Rep). Stone Face was shortlisted for three Offies, including Best New Play. Interactive installations include The Voice of the House (Duppini Art Group, Veliko Ternovo), Climate Games (Laboratory of the Insurrectionary Imagination/Berliner Festspiele/COP21, Paris), Your Future (Camden People's Theatre, Hebbel Am Ufer, Ballhaus Ost, and Sophiensaele, Berlin), and A Short and Boring Story (Camden People's Theatre). Work as dramaturg includes the multi-award-winning How to Win Against History by Seiriol Davies (Young Vic/Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh/UK tour). In 2017 she was the first-ever artist-in-residence at the Experimental Stage of the National Theatre of Greece. Upcoming work includes main stage commissions for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Bush Theatre, and The Place/DanceEast.