Face To The Wall

By Martin Crimp

February 2024, Mountview Studios

1, 2, and 3 enjoy a dinner together, discussing a school shooting. 4, covered in blood, joins the party. A short, surreal piece from Crimp’s ‘'Fewer Emergencies’ collection exploring violence and detachment.

As part of Mountview’s MA Theatre Directing course, students are assigned contemporary plays to direct actors on the Postgraduate course. This was a closed performance as part of an assessed module.

With the script’s lack of stage directions, the process included collaborating and devising a concept for the ambigious text, creating a safe rehearsal room while working with intense subject matter, set designing from internal furniture stores, and operating lighting/sound.