TV credits
NO EASY WALK
(Michael Pennington, “A work of Art…””This very convincing play… “This highly promising play by a young author new to Television”
THE BROPHY STORY
ANCIENT AND MODERN
“Mr Slater’s laconic pen …A cheeky appealing debunker… a fascinating send-up of British conscience…”
CROWN COURT
FRANKLIN”S FARM (Maureen Pryor. Thames TV’s nomination for Cannes TV Festival)
SEA SONG (Euston Films’ first original film with Tom Bell, Kika Markham.
“A clipped elliptical running fight of a script”.
Creator SUNNY’S EARS (RTS Award, Best Children’s Drama, 1998)
Theatre credits
EASTERN STAR
Tara Arts, starring David Yip
THE GUARDIAN – MICHAEL BILLINGTON
“This vital fascinating new play…..
The drama touches on a wide range of issues: the responsibility of imperial Britain for Burma’s fate, the systematic erasure of the past by the country’s generals and the precarious nature of Myanmar’s supposed democracy under Aung San Suu Kyi, who emerged as a charismatic force during the student revolution.
In the author’s production, the two protagonists are very well played. Michael Lumsden is all silvery anguish as the western visitor and David Yip captures precisely his old colleague’s mix of courtesy and anger. It’s a play that puts Myanmar’s current tragedy in context and that deserves to have a longer life ….”
EVENING STANDARD
…Guy Slater’s play details their fraught meeting decades later as old wounds re open and bleed all
over the stage.
Yip and Lumsden are superb as they circle each other, drawing out a litany of betrayal and
stupidity that wrecked one man’s life and propelled the other to success.
It’s a small but well-formed play about Gunness’s guilt over his action – and in action –
concerning an issue of international import whose after shocks are still being felt to day.
The moral is: when in doubt, trust your con science, not your government.
THERE OUGHT TO BE CLOWNS
“Under the exceptionally haunting backdrop of Elroy Ashmore’s design. Michael Lumsden convinces as a man worn down by recrimination and the knowledge that he could have – should have – done more, and David Yip is superb as he shows impossible grace under pressure, all the while suggesting the (literally) tortured soul it hides.”
BRITISH THEATRE GUIDE
Very moving…. simply staged with a ghostly outline of Myanmar, through which faces seem to be screaming, hanging over Elroy Ashmore’s setting of screens and a few pieces of furniture. Guy Slater’s production is similarly simple and direct …. A play about people coming to terms with the past as old wounds are reopened, secrets uncovered and reconciliation sought for.”
ONE WORLD
“Not only is the play topical, it is also engrossing. Writer Guy Slater ensures that the moving confrontation has a kick that gives the play an emotional force as it picks at the moral ambiguities of the relationship between journalistic and activist.
It’s an intense, 75-minute study, about what U Nay Min calls “a little bit of history”. He’s right, it is, and it’s well worth re-living or discovering.”
WOMAN IN WHITE (Adaptation from Wilkie Collins)
Farnham, Liverpool, Cheltenham, Harare Theatres)
SLEEPING IT OFF (Feydeau Tr. Basingstoke, Southampton, UK National Tour`)
UP THE GREEK (Musical, with Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley)
RADA and GSA
