THE MICHAEL PILCH STUDIO
  • Home
  • About
  • What's on
    • The Pillowman
    • Present Laughter
    • Bad Nick
    • Kafka's Dick
    • All's Well That Ends Well
    • Rasputin
    • The Buffa
  • How to Apply
  • Technical Details
  • FAQs
  • Contact
  • Archive
    • Michaelmas Term 2019 >
      • Top Girls
      • Crave
      • Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?
      • Cement Garden
      • The Crucible
      • American Buffalo
    • Hilary Term 2019 >
      • Frog's Legs
      • Family Secrets
      • I'm an Improviser
      • Many Moons
      • Numbers
      • How to make friends and then kill them
    • Michaelmas Term 2018 >
      • BRINK
      • Talaash
    • Trinity Term 2018 >
      • Another Country
      • A Doll's House
      • NSFW
      • House of Bernarda Alba
      • Death By Murder
    • Hilary Term 2018 >
      • The Flick
      • The Crocodile
      • Balliol Charity Musical '18
      • Victory
      • The Polycephany Monologues
      • Beautiful Thing
      • Revolt.
    • Michaelmas Term 2017 >
      • Lovesong
      • Yellow
      • A Girl in a Car with a Man
      • A Lady in the Sheets
      • A Familiar Friend
      • 4:48 Psychosis
      • Three Parallel Places
    • Trinity Term 2017 >
      • The Picture of Dorian Gray
      • Christie in Love
      • 5 Women Wearing the Same Dress
      • A View From the Bridge
      • Rewritten
      • Blavatsky's Tower
    • Hilary Term 2017 >
      • The Newcomer Show
      • Suspiria
      • Tender Napalm
      • The Homecoming
      • Balliol JCR Charity Musical
      • Collaborators
      • Four Lions
    • Michaelmas Term 2016 >
      • Copenhagen
      • The Skriker
      • It Felt Empty
      • Last Five Years
      • Much Ado About Nothing
      • The Pillowman
    • Trinity Term 2016 >
      • Orphans
      • Beards
      • The Weir
      • The Goat
      • Rhinoceros
      • Mine
      • Fahrenheit 451
    • Hilary Term 2016 >
      • Slag
      • Thark
      • Triptych
      • Charity Musical
      • Mercury Fur
      • Ballyturk
      • Horseplay
    • Michaelmas Term 2015 >
      • Julius Caesar
      • Table For None
  • Home
  • About
  • What's on
    • The Pillowman
    • Present Laughter
    • Bad Nick
    • Kafka's Dick
    • All's Well That Ends Well
    • Rasputin
    • The Buffa
  • How to Apply
  • Technical Details
  • FAQs
  • Contact
  • Archive
    • Michaelmas Term 2019 >
      • Top Girls
      • Crave
      • Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?
      • Cement Garden
      • The Crucible
      • American Buffalo
    • Hilary Term 2019 >
      • Frog's Legs
      • Family Secrets
      • I'm an Improviser
      • Many Moons
      • Numbers
      • How to make friends and then kill them
    • Michaelmas Term 2018 >
      • BRINK
      • Talaash
    • Trinity Term 2018 >
      • Another Country
      • A Doll's House
      • NSFW
      • House of Bernarda Alba
      • Death By Murder
    • Hilary Term 2018 >
      • The Flick
      • The Crocodile
      • Balliol Charity Musical '18
      • Victory
      • The Polycephany Monologues
      • Beautiful Thing
      • Revolt.
    • Michaelmas Term 2017 >
      • Lovesong
      • Yellow
      • A Girl in a Car with a Man
      • A Lady in the Sheets
      • A Familiar Friend
      • 4:48 Psychosis
      • Three Parallel Places
    • Trinity Term 2017 >
      • The Picture of Dorian Gray
      • Christie in Love
      • 5 Women Wearing the Same Dress
      • A View From the Bridge
      • Rewritten
      • Blavatsky's Tower
    • Hilary Term 2017 >
      • The Newcomer Show
      • Suspiria
      • Tender Napalm
      • The Homecoming
      • Balliol JCR Charity Musical
      • Collaborators
      • Four Lions
    • Michaelmas Term 2016 >
      • Copenhagen
      • The Skriker
      • It Felt Empty
      • Last Five Years
      • Much Ado About Nothing
      • The Pillowman
    • Trinity Term 2016 >
      • Orphans
      • Beards
      • The Weir
      • The Goat
      • Rhinoceros
      • Mine
      • Fahrenheit 451
    • Hilary Term 2016 >
      • Slag
      • Thark
      • Triptych
      • Charity Musical
      • Mercury Fur
      • Ballyturk
      • Horseplay
    • Michaelmas Term 2015 >
      • Julius Caesar
      • Table For None
Search by typing & pressing enter

YOUR CART

Brown Sugar productions present A Familiar Friend, a piece of new writing By Josh Borune
4th week//Pilch//mt17

'A Familiar Friend', which is loosely based on the writings of J.M. Barrie, is the story of a boy who calls himself 'Peter Pan'. Following a difficult upbringing and a series of personal tragedies, Peter attempts to escape his depression by living in a world of stories and fantasy, facilitated by substance abuse. While his friends indulge him, a new relationship with Wendy Darling, a sensible but imaginative girl, may be what we needs to bring him back to reality.

This bleak and gritty play combines moments of comedy with a down-to-earth portrayal of mental illness and coping mechanisms, using magical realism as a narrative tool to blend fantasy and reality as well as light and dark. It reclaims the darker heritage of fairytales to take a well-known and well-loved children's story and use it as a vehicle to explore some of the issues which are most salient to those who have to grow up today.
Picture
Picture
Michael Pilch Studio
Jowett Buildings
Jowett Walk
Oxford
​OX1 3TS


michaelpilchstudio@gmail.com
© COPYRIGHT 2015. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Picture
Picture