All Work & a Lot of Plays

Massive congratulations to Dr Chris Savery who, some 50 years after leaving school, has just been awarded a Phd in creative writing from Plymouth University. Not that it’s taken him that long, as he’s certainly had an interesting journey along the way, most of it as a playwright. Chris founded Plymouth Presents Theatre Company not long after leaving school and over a number of years they performed various Savery plays including The Megahype at the old Palace Theatre, Cromwell at the Globe Theatre, Drake at Devonport Town Hall, and Marilyn at the Barbican Theatre.

The latter was performed at the Midtown International Theatre Festival in New York and also in Paris. It was nominated for three awards ‒ best play, best playwright and best director. The New York director was Angie Kristic who also directed and co-produced Chris’s historical drama piece To Win A Crown of Thorns , which was presented as a staged reading as part of the Camden Fringe Festival last summer.

Based on the English Civil War the cast for the production included Will Barton, who played Boris Johnson in the hit The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson in London. Also lending their talents were fellow OPMs, Peter Seaton Clark the celebrated actor who was featured in a recent edition of the OPM Magazine,
David (Frankie) Abbott and Simon Petherick (pictured l-r below)