Matt Charman's first play,
A Night at the Dogs (Soho Theatre, London), won the prestigious Verity Bargate Award for new writers. Other productions include
The Observer, directed by Sir Richard Eyre, and
The Five Wives of Maurice Pinder, and
Greenland (written with Jack Thorne, Moira Buffini and Penelope Skinner), all three of
which premiered at the National Theatre, London, where Charman was previously Pearson Writer in Residence.
Regrets received its world premiere at the Manhattan Theatre Club in May 2012, while his next,
The Machine, will premiere at the Manchester International Festival in May 2013, before being staged at the Armory in New York. He is a recipient of the Peggy Ramsay Award and the 2008 Catherine Johnson Award for Best Play for
The Observer.
An international group of observers arrives in a West African country to oversee and rubber stamp its first democratic election. New voters queue in their thousands, but a senior member of the observation team finds herself both horrified by the president's suppressive tactics and,...
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