Alexander Masters’ Stuart: A Life Backwards, written by Jack Thorne. Stuart recounts his life story in reverse, and his dry sense of humor gives the story an almost tragi-comic edge.HighTide Festival Theatre and Sheffield Theatres in association with Watford Palace Theatre, Dumbfounded Theatre, Underbelly and Escalator East to Edinburgh. As Alexander learns more about Stuart's complicated life he wants to write it. When Stuart - a homeless alcoholic with a violent past - meets writer and charity worker Alexander Masters, they strike up a friendship.
So here it is, my attempt at the story of.Stuart: A Life Backwards is about how sometimes the past can’t be outrun, but that people can still achieve things far beyond what might ever be expected. A unique biography of a homeless man and a complete portrait of the hidden underclass. ReviewStuart: A Life Backwards. Mark Rosenblatt, Associate Director West Yorkshire Playhouse, directs this major new production by double Fringe First winners HighTide and Sheffield Theatres. Double BAFTA award-winner Jack Thorne’s new play tells the story of an unlikely friendship and of Stuart’s entire life told backwards by Alexander. Alexander Masters is a reserved, bookish member of the educated middle-classes.
The play documents Alexander’s struggle with his own comfortable existence and unearthing of Stuart’s troubled past how lives can bend and resist discovery.Stuart A Life Backwards. Thrust together when the managers of a shelter are imprisoned for drug dealing, Alexander and Stuart find camaraderie across social barriers. A writer documents the turbulent life of a homeless alcoholic who has a violent past, as he desperately tries to recover from his past.Stuart: A Life Backwards by Jack Thorne is a smart account of an unlikely friendship between a charity worker and a homeless man.