ROYAL COURT THEATRE IN COLLABORATION WITH ROYAL EXCHANGE THEATRE TO STAGE THE 2015 BRUNTWOOD PRIZE WINNING PLAY WISH LIST

Katherine Soper’s 2015 Bruntwood Prize winning play Wish List will have a production staged in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs in early 2017. Wish List is a Royal Court Theatre and Royal Exchange Theatre Production.

Wish List explores life at the bottom of the pile and the helpless uncertainty of zero-hours contracts. A collaboration between the Royal Court Theatre and the Royal Exchange Studio, Wish List is directed by Exchange Associate Artistic Director Matthew Xia from 24 Sep – 15 Oct in The Studio and dates to be announced at the Royal Court.

Wish List is Katherine Soper’s first full-length play. It won her the 2015 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. Sir Nicholas Hytner (chair of the 2015 judging panel) described it as a play with ‘such eloquence, such quiet craft, such dignity and such compassion.’ Wish List marks the Royal Court’s second year co-producing the Bruntwood Prize-winning play following Anna Jordan’s YEN in 2015/16.