Trivia - A Short Film – Writer

12:00, Thu 9th May – Sun 2nd June 2024 at n/a

Trivia

“Open quotation marks - “all knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest
human use” - close quotation marks. Who said?” - Alan Bennett

Medium: short film

Run time: 12 minutes approximately

Writer: Katherine Stockton
Producer: Katherine Stockton

• CASTING: male actor, presenting between the ages of 25 and 32
SEEKING crew: director, sound assistant, lighting assistant, editor
• Director: any experience can apply, willing to work with writer, closely, interested
in the themes of education and mental health, and how they intersect.
• Sound assistant: any experience can apply, wants to work with indoor, intimate
soundscapes
• Lighting assistant: any experience can apply, wants to create indoor, intimate
lighting set ups

Trivia is a monologue spoken by George, a struggling final year PhD student of
Literature. Every term holiday, George tells us, he must embark home to the domain of
his well-meaning mother and her new partner, Dave. Dave is fantastic at pub quizzes.
Dave will mow you down with his encyclopaedic grasp of football teams, cricket scores
and 70’s sitcoms. Dave thinks George’s academic knowledge is useless; not part of the
‘real world.’ George thinks Dave’s knowledge is, well, just trivia. George’s monologue
invites us on one of these holiday trips to the pub quiz, where Cambridge-clever and
pub-quiz-clever collide.

Katherine Stockton is an award-winning and published scriptwriter and poet, with a
particular interest in writing for the stage and for radio. Katherine won the 2020 Snoo
Wilson Writing Prize for her drama radio series, “Car Crash Girl.” Her award-nominated
stageplay, “Colloquium” toured in London and Norfolk. Trivia is a monologue from
Colloquium, which was given 4* reviews from Everything Theatre and LondonTheatre1.

Please email any and all questions to krs60@cam.ac.uk
Script will be provided upon request.