Torben Betts

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Torben Betts (born 1968) is an English playwright. Born in Stamford, Lincolnshire, he was educated at Stamford School and the University of Liverpool. He originally trained and worked as an actor.

He was the Arts Council of England writer-in-residence at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, in 1999 and recent commissions by Alan Ayckbourn have been The Optimist (2002), Her Slightest Touch (2003) and The Swing of Things (2006). A consistently controversial dramatist, he has been hailed as a successor to writers as diverse as Ayckbourn and Howard Barker. Both writers have acknowledged him as their potential heir.[citation needed] Time Out has described him as "an uncommonly talented playwright".

Betts' play The Unconquered, in a touring production by the Stellar Quines company, was Best New Play in the 2006-7 Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland.[1]

[edit] List of works

  • A Listening Heaven (1996)
  • Incarcerator (1997)
  • The Biggleswades (1997)
  • Mummies and Daddies (1998)
  • Spurning Comfort (1998)
  • Five Visions of the Faithful (2000)
  • Clockwatching (2000)
  • Silence and Violence (2001)
  • The Last Days of Desire (2001)
  • The Lunatic Queen (2003)
  • The Error of Their Ways (2004)
  • The Swing of Things (2005)
  • The Company Man (2006)
  • The Unconquered (2007)
  • Lie of the Land (2008)


[edit] External links

Torben Betts — Official website

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