Boundless Theatre Artistic Director Rob Drummer today announces the full company for the UK premiΓ¨re of Natives, a new play by Glenn Waldron. Previously Company of Angels, Boundless TheatreΒ produces exhilarating new theatre in the UK in conversation with Europe. Drummer directs Ella Purnell (A), Fionn Whitehead (B), and Manish Gandhi (C) in the production which opens at the Southwark Playhouse on 31 March, with previews from 29 March, and runs until 22 April.Β
βWhere are the grown-ups to do something, where are the grown-ups in this story?β
Three countries. Three teenagers. One average, life-altering day. A young man battles with feelings of love and violence. Another is stuck with the image of someone being pushed from a rooftop. And a girl must choose between her friends and her conscience.
Natives is a rallying cry to a generation of unlikely heroes and celebrates coming of age online in a chaotic world.
Glenn Waldron is a London-based playwright and writer. A former magazine editor and journalist, Glenn was Editor of i-D magazine and his feature writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Independent, Vogue, W magazine, and other publications. His first playΒ Forever HouseΒ premiered at the Drum, Theatre Royal Plymouth and his work has since been performed in Germany, Norway, the Netherlands and the USA. Upcoming productions include The Here And This And Now at TRP and End of the Pier at Hackney Showroom. Glenn also lectures in journalism and pop culture at the University of the Arts London.
Ella Purnell plays A. She is making her professional stage debut. She was one of Screen International Stars of Tomorrow 2010. For film, she will appear in the forthcoming Churchill, her credits include Miss Peregrineβs Home for Peculiar Children, Never Let me Go, Maleficent, Intruders and Kick Ass 2.
Fionn Whitehead plays B. He is making his professional stage debut. He was one of Screen Internationals Stars of Tomorrow 2016. For television his credits include Him; and for film, he will appear in the forthcoming Christopher Nolanβs Dunkirk and The Children Act.Β
Manish Gandhi plays C. He was included in the British Councilβs 2016 global list of 33 cultural influencers from around the world promoting freedom and equality. For theatre his credits include Now We Are HereΒ (Young Vic), Brown ShakespeareΒ (Efua Theodora Sutherland Drama Studio, Legon-Accra),Β RizwanΒ (FTII, Pune),Β LimboΒ and CockΒ (National Centre of Performing Arts, Mumbai). For television, Rides upon the Storm, Judwa Raja and Na Bole Tum; and for film, That Transient Interval,Β Chai Shai BiscuitsΒ andΒ Rizwaan.
DirectorΒ –Β Rob Drummer
Designer –Β Amelia Jane Hankin
Movement –Β John Ross
Video Design –Β Cate Blanchard
Lighting –Β Zoe Spurr
Sound Design –Β Father
Boundless TheatreΒ (formerly Company of Angels) produces exhilarating new theatre in the UK in conversation with Europe. For fifteen years, they have produced and toured new plays, nationally and internationally and created projects and experiences that young adult audiences share in. They nurture and empower the next generation of visionary artists, brings plays, diverse perspectives and ideas from Europe and engage with a range of artistic forms beyond theatre-making.
Listing
Natives
29 March β 22 April
8pm Monday β Sunday
MatineeΒ 3.30pm Saturdays and Tuesday 4th April only
Rona Morison, Rebecca Trehearn and Saskia Strallen star alongside Mark Caroll and Jamie Wilkes
Based on the acclaimed graphic novel by Phoebe Gloeckner which was turned into a major film in 2015.Β
Atomicus Entertainment presents
THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL
Adapted by Marielle Heller.
Directed by Alexander Parker.
Designed by Andrew Riley.
Lighting Design by David Howe.
Sound Design by James Nicholson.
Cast
Mark Carroll
Rona Morison
Saskia Strallen
Rebecca Trehearn
Jamie Wilkes
The Diary of a Teenage Girl recounts the coming-of-age adventures of Minnie Goetze, a San Francisco teenager growing up in the counterculture haze of the 1970s.
Lonely and artistic, Minnie chronicles her trials through expressive drawings and painfully honest missives confided to a tape recorder. One fateful evening alone with her motherβs boyfriend, Minnie is confronted with her burgeoning sexuality for the first time, and suddenly this precocious teen is in way over her head.
Based on the critically acclaimed graphic novel by Phoebe Gloeckner, which was later turned into a major award-winning motion picture film starring Bel Powley, Alexander SkarsgΓ₯rd and Kristen Wiig, Marielle Hellerβs explosive play is a sharp, funny and provocative account of one girl’s sexual and artistic awakening, without judgment.
Rona Morison plays Minnie. Recently at Southwark Playhouse she starred in Orca. She has just finished filming Ready Player One, directed by Steven Spielberg which will be released in 2018. Other theatre credits include Julie (Northern Stage), The Crucible (Bristol Old Vic), Buckets (Orange Tree), Scuttlers (Manchester Royal Exchange), The James Plays (National Theatre), To Kill a Mockingbird (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) and The Second Mrs Tanqueray (Rose Theatre).
Rebecca Trehearn plays Charlotte (Minnie’s mother). She trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Theatre includes The Night Before Christmas (Salisbury Playhouse), A Little of What You Fancy (Salisbury Playhouse), Floyd Collins (Wiltonβs Music Hall), Show Boat (New London Theatre/Crucible Theatre, Sheffield), City Of Angels (Donmar Warehouse), Dogfight (Southwark Playhouse), Ghost (UK National Tour), Bernarda Alba (Union Theatre). Recording includes film soundtracks for Into The Woods, The Da Vinci Code and Mamma Mia! Rebecca can also be heard as Rosalia on the 50th Anniversary recording of West Side Story, on the Love Story original cast recording and as Abby on Bobby Croninβs The Concrete Jungle studio cast recording.
Saskia Strallen plays Kimmie. Her theatre credits include Oklahoma!, Fame, Scrooge, 9 to 5 The Musical (National Tour), Miss Atomic Bomb (St. James Theatre), Street of Dreams (MEN Arena), The Best Little Whore House in Texas, Dames at Sea, Bells are Ringing (Union Theatre), Billy Elliott (Victoria Palace), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Scrooge (Palladium), Jesus Christ Superstar (UK tour), Whistle Down the Wind, Annie (New Victoria Theatre) and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (New Wimbledon Theatre).
Mark Carroll plays Pascal. He trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Theatre includes The Threepenny Opera (National Theatre), Memphis the Musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Marguerite, Jesus Christ Superstar, Oliver!, Miss Saigon (West End). Television includes Doctor Who.
Jamie Wilkes plays Monroe. He trained at LAMDA. Theatre includes The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Rover, Oppenheimer, Shoemaker’s Holiday, Wendy & Peter Pan (all RSC), The Comedy of Errors, Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare’s Globe), Howl’s Moving Castle, The Boy James, Lorca is Dead, Atrium, Tartuffe (all Southwark Playhouse), The Beggar’s Opera, Macbeth (York Theatre Royal), Dracula (Edinburgh International Festival), Metamorphosis (NSDF Spotlight Award for Best Actor). Television includes Mr Selfridge and Downton Abbey.
Listing
THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL
Wednesday 1 March β Saturday 25 March 2017
Monday to Saturday at 8pm Tuesday matinees at 3.30pm Saturday matinees at 3.30pm