A Cold Coming
October 24, 2007
A Cold Coming is novelist Chaz Brenchley’s first play which after an intial successful run is starting a short regional tour in November.
The central character for the story is Quin who ten years ago was diagnosed as HIV positive. A year ago his condition deteriorated and, at roughly the same time, his partner Michael took up a post at the University of Kyoto. Now close to death, Quin is looked after by a group of old friends and former students, led by his doctor Gillian, an old friend, and Stuart, a former lover.
Now Michael has returned…
A Cold Coming is a searing, deeply moving play. Just an hour long, it examines the complexities of relationships in the face of imminent death.
The author Chaz Brenchley has been making a living as a writer since he was eighteen. He is the author of nine thrillers, most recently Shelter, and two major fantasy series: The Books of Outremer, based on the world of the Crusades, and Selling Water by the River, set in an alternate Ottoman Istanbul. A winner of the British Fantasy Award, he has also published three books for children and more than 500 short stories in various genres.
His time as Crimewriter-in-Residence at the St Peter’s Riverside Sculpture Project in Sunderland resulted in the collection Blood Waters. He is a prizewinning ex-poet, and has been writer in residence at the University of Northumbria, as well as tutoring their MA in Creative Writing.
He was Northern Writer of the Year 2000, and lives in Newcastle upon Tyne with a quantum cat and a famous teddy bear.
Tour dates are :
7th and 8th November @ Customs House, South Shields
14th November @ Royalty Theatre, Sunderland
15th November @ The Store, Dipton
16th and 17th November @ Arc, Stockton
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