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15/11/2024

Nathaniel is a serious romantic who sees love as a fine art. He’s looking for the Mona Lisa to his da Vinci, and tonight is the night…

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00:00Good morning, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers. Really nice

00:07this morning to speak to Nathan. Now, Nathan, you have a really exciting play on tour, solo

00:12show, Boring Techno Makeout Jams, and it's heading to Chichester's Minerva Theatre from

00:18November the 21st of 23rd. It's a play that's really transformed your life. It started very

00:24small, didn't it, and has become the fourth piece. Tell me about that transformation.

00:29Yeah, so it started as a three minute monologue, which was just performed for a monologue competition

00:35in the hope of me kind of putting myself as an actor in front of more faces. And then

00:40from that, it went to the national final of the same monologue competition. And that's

00:45where it kind of led into people being interested in my writing, as opposed to my acting. And

00:52then with that, it went through a couple of other kind of like, actual writing prizes

00:57as I started to develop it further. So there's the Pint Size Plays, which gets your play

01:02shared at the Bunker Theatre, which was in London. And then there was also a thing called

01:07Four of a Kind, which was run by Wildcard Theatre, which got a sharing at Vaults, that

01:11unfortunately got stopped because of COVID. So it never ended up happening. And during

01:15COVID, I didn't really do much work on the play. But then coming out of it, I kind of

01:20decided towards the end of 2021 and start 2022, I decided I was gonna actually push

01:25myself to finish this play, because it's already...

01:28Fantastic. Now it's heading our way. Tell me, what's the play all about, would you say?

01:33What are you saying in this piece?

01:35The play's kind of been, not by myself, but by others, has been titled as a one man romantic

01:40odyssey. So it kind of follows a character who I think, believes in romance and thinks

01:46romance is everything that will fix his life. But actually, he needs love. And in looking

01:53for love, he's looking in all the wrong places.

01:56Love and romance being different things.

01:59Yeah, I think the idea of romance and the idea of love, because I think romance is something

02:04that you gain from people, but love is something that you can get from anywhere. You can get

02:08that from friends, you can get that from family. And I think that's kind of at the heart of

02:13the play. And yeah, he goes through, as he's going through this journey of thinking, once

02:19he finds the person, everything in his life will come together. His life's actually kind

02:22of falling apart at the seams. But within that, it's very humorous. It's very joyful.

02:26It's a lot of fun.

02:27Fantastic. And it's coming to the Minerva in Georgetown from November 21st to the 23rd.

02:32Nathan, good to speak to you. Congratulations.

02:34Thank you very much.

02:36Cheers. Bye.

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