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Stories for Boys

‘You talk about death as if it’s a problem to be solved.’

‘It is a problem to be solved.’ 

‘But I don’t think it can be solved.’ 

‘And that’s the problem.’

Simultaneously a riotous laugh-a-minute comedy and a bleak reminder of the terrifying void that awaits each of us, Stories for Boys is the touching tale of a donkey and a fish grappling with the universe’s most profound question: to be, or not.* Bach, Wittgenstein, Ibsen and Turner are eagerly enlisted in a series of pell-mell, antic attempts to dissolve the outstanding paradoxes of our time; life versus death, love versus sex, fish versus donkey.

From the writer of Spy for Spy (‘a revelation!’ - The Times), Tomorrow In The Battle (‘white hot passion’ - New York Times) and Stockwell (‘the most important play of the year’ - Daily Express).

* to be.

 

CAST

Adam Barlow - Player One etc.

Lewis Blomfield - Player Three etc.

Florence Dobson - Asso

Agatha Elwes - Basso

Samuel Ferrer - Player Two etc.

Thelma Solea - Player Four etc.

 

CREATIVE TEAM

Written by Kieron Barry

Directed by Hope Wishart

Robert Taylor - Executive producer 

Enza Kim - Scenographer

Barnaby Booth - Lighting Design

Helen Skiera - Sound Design

May Kelley - Costume Design

Arista Abbabatulla - Assistant Director

Catalina Diaconescu - Stage Management

Lisa Bain - Production Manager

Sean Laing - Co-Production Manager

Paushali Banik - Casting

Maryann Wright - Press

Salene Jang - Graphic Design

Olga Tarnopolskaia - Programme Design

Paul Major - Site Development

Modge Tait - Producer

Lily Alcock - Co-Producer

Cassie Devlin - Co-Producer

 

Fancy dinner and a show? Book at table at the Drayton Arms pub now and enjoy the pre-theatre menu before heading upstairs!

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