Crocodiles brings to life a dystopian, modern-fairytale town where fact and fiction weave as tightly and snag as easily as granny's knitting. In a sleepy seaside town, Cornelia Glass is busy spinning yarn. Witches are burnt in the town centre. Crocodiles lurk in the shallows. Boys who go to the big city are skinned alive by roving tramps. Cornelia's oldest son, Rudolph, is being forced to give up his Punch and Judy show. Matilda, his wife, is secretly writing her first romantic novel. Their daughter, Lucy, can tell the future. But when Cornelia's younger son, Vincent, returns from his glitzy television job in the big city, the stories that once held the Glass family together are in danger of smashing them to smithereens. Lee Mattinson's Crocodiles was runner-up for the 2011 Verity Bargate Award, and premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in October 2014.
Lee Mattinson is a playwright and screenwriter whose plays include: Steel (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, 2024); Crocodiles (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, 2014) and Chalet Lines (Bush Theatre, London, 2012). Other theatre credits include: Snap (Young Vic); Gary Lineker is Gay (Paines Plough); No Wire Hangers (Soho Theatre); The Kids Are Alright, I Heart Catherine Pistachio (Encounter); Me and Cilla, Jonathan Likes This (Live Theatre); The Season Ticket (Pilot Theatre/Northern Stage). Radio credits include: Me and Cilla, Tongue, Glow in the Dark, 2 Clowns, 1 Trumpet (BBC Radio 3); Magpie (BBC Radio 4); Prom, Snowglobe (BBC Radio Newcastle). TV credits include: Coronation Street (Story Associate, ITV); Scallywagga (BBC3). Film credits include: Fist (Elevator/BFI Network). |
