Intended to be performed live over the phone, Sam Cottington’s Phone Plays invite readers and audience members alike to engage with a series of unclear relationships and scenarios, invoked and mediated by contemporary communication technology.
Sarah Kane meets Linda Rosenkrantz! – Hannah Regel
Phone Plays has inspired me to make my phone calls more theatrical: to parrot myself, parody myself, to talk in pranks, poems and perversities—and to do it whether there’s somebody on the other end or not. – Derek McCormack
A staccato joy, Phone Plays beat and twist, and make you just want to keep going and going. – Calla Henkel
Scores is a new imprint co-commissioned by Montez Press and London Performance Studios that publishes scripts and performance texts by artists, theatre-makers and performance-makers working between the visual and theatrical arts.
About
Montez Press was formed in 2012 and has since commissioned & published over 500 experimental works by artists, writers and thinkers, with a focus on queer and intersectional feminist practices, through the lens of artists’ writing.
The name Montez draws from three iterations of the spirit of Lola Montez: a dancer, lover, stubborn and ambitious free spirit anticipating modern female self-determination in the nineteenth century. In the mid-twentieth century, Maria Montez—naming herself after Lola and known as the Queen of Technicolor for her many roles in costume adventure films—was said to be a seductress and terrible actress but gained cult status for her glamour. Lastly, it was Mario Montez—an underground queer actor, who became famous for roles in movies by Andy Warhol and Jack Smith—who named himself after Maria.
