Chicken

a short film by Lin Coghlan

Produced by CONNECT at the Jack Studio Theatre
Directed by Julia Stubbs

Bev wants to be creative. Mason is more focused on his PhD.

Perhaps an unexpected meeting with a chicken will put Bev on a new path.

Why can’t I say I got a river like a stream?

Cast

Chantelle Dusette | Brendan O’Rourke.

Creative Team

Director: Julia Stubbs | Director of Photography: Lily Grimes | Production Assistant: Sam Bland | CONNECT co-ordinator: Emmanuel Nwosu | Produced by Kate Bannister and Karl Swinyard for CONNECT at the Jack Studio Theatre.

Lin Coghlan is from Dublin. She trained at Rose Bruford College. Her writing for the theatre includes Apache Tears for Clean Break, winner of the Peggy Ramsay Award, Kingfisher Blue at the Bush, Mercy and Waking at the Soho Theatre and The Miracle at the National Theatre. She has written many plays for companies with strong community relationships including Theatre Centre, Red Ladder, Clean Break, and Half Moon Young People’s Theatre.

Her screenplay First Communion Day (BBC Films) was the winner of the Dennis Potter Play of the Year Award, and Some Dogs Bite (Kindle Entertainment/BBC) was the winner of the Audience Prize at the Nantes Film Festival. She has numerous credits on British and Irish television alongside many dramatisations for BBC Radio 4. Lin has had a long association with the Jack Studio Theatre and is often to be found writing in the bar.

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