This Must Be the Place is a play comprising two short ballads about migration, missed connections, and life on the edge of respectability.
Two friends, fugitives from their problems, try and start again in the big smoke but find themselves waiting on the margins still. A man in the midst of crisis tries for a clean break from technology, connectivity and the pressures of city life.
Brad Birch and Kenny Emson’s This Must Be the Place was first performed at Latitude Festival in July 2016, before transferring to the 2017 VAULT Festival, London, where it was named Show of the Year.
‘A very modern tale of very modern detachment, written with humour and vigour… observant, angry, compelling, oh, and it’s funny too. Very funny.’ – London Theatre1
‘A dynamic piece of new writing… freshly biting and crisply unsentimental’ – Exeunt Magazine
Sobre el autor
Kenny Emson’s plays include Rural (White Bear); Whispering Happiness (Tristan Bates); Our Nobby (Eastern Angles, touring); The Peterborough Effect (Eastern Angles, touring); England Street (Oxford Playhouse); and Terrorism (Bush Theatre). He also writes for TV and film and was nominated for a Bafta Craft Award in 2016 for his work on The Last Hours of Laura K.