The Park Bench Plays will be broadcast on Sky Arts (Freeview Channel 11) on Monday 7 February 2022 at 11pm. Brainchild of The Rep’s Artistic Director, Sean Foley, The Park Bench Plays is a series of short Plays commissioned by The Rep during lockdown. Filmed on location out and about in Birmingham, each of the five micro plays is set on the most common of lockdown meeting places, the park bench, and reflects, in a different way, on life amidst the pandemic. The Park Bench Plays are written by five of country’s best playwrights; Tanika Gupta (Lions and Tigers/The Empress), Bryony Lavery (Frozen/The Lovely Bones), Robin French (Cuckoo/Rebel Music), David Edgar (Nicholas Nickleby/Pentecost) and Janice Connolly (Mrs Barbara … Continue reading Birmingham Rep’s The Park Bench Plays to be Broadcast on Sky Arts