Portrait by Keith McIntyre

Torben Betts is an award-winning English playwright whose plays include: A Listening Heaven (1999); Incarcerator (1999); Mummies and Daddies (1999); Five Visions of the Faithful (2000); Clockwatching (2000); The Biggleswades (1997); Silence and Violence (2001); The Last Days of Desire (2001), Spurning Comfort (1998), The Trough (2002), The Lunatic Queen (2003); The Error of Their Ways (2004) and The Company Man (2006). He was writer-in-residence at the SJT in 1999 and recent commissions by Alan Ayckbourn have been The Optimist (2002) and Her Slightest Touch (2003). The Swing of Things opened there in October 2007.

CURRENTLY:

The Unconquered won the Best New Play at the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland 2007 and was nominated for Best Design. The play has been remounted and has just toured the UK (including dates at Glasgow's Tron Theatre, Dundee Rep and The Arcola in London). It is now taking part in the Brits-off-Broadway season in New York. 

Read Glasgow Sunday Herald review (Feb 2007).
Read Daily Telegraph review (Feb 2007).

Reviews for this production:

The Scotsman
The Stage
The List
IndyMedia Scotland
New York Times
NYTheatre.com
American Theater Web

Remaining tour dates:

Brits-off-Broadway
59E59 Theaters, New York
Wed 14 – Sunday 18 May 2008, 2.15 pm and 8.15pm

COMING UP: 

Lie of the Land, his latest play, is due to run at The Pleasance throughout August as part of this year's Edinburgh Festival. The play will feature Neal Barry and Nia Davies and is to be directed by Adam Barnard.