Laughter, anguish and wine – the perfect combination for any rehearsal room, surely. It’s certainly what we can see in rehearsals for comic drama Boomerang, which comes to the King’s Head Theatre this month. Time to book those tickets!
Written and directed by Ivana Mazza-Coates and Madeleine Shenai, Boomerang runs at the Islington venue from 15-19 May 2019.
Boomerang, which plays out in real time, explores the complexities of mother-daughter relationships, repression and exploration of sexuality, and the loss of a friendship. It analyses the ‘Boomerang Generation’, who are desperate for independence and competitively ambitious, but struggle to take on the responsibilities of growing up, and leaves you debating, reflecting on and scrutinising the intensities of what friendship really means.
Playwrights Ivana Mazza-Coates and Madeleine Shenai met while studying drama at Bristol University. The first seeds of their work on Boomerang was seen at a scratch night at the Park Theatre in 2016. It has since grown to become the production staged at the King’s Head Theatre this month.
Megan Purvis, Alice Kerrigan, Nicola Wright and Daniel Higley star in Boomerang.
Boomerang is produced by Paula McGann with production design by Shanti Gorton. It runs at King’s Head Theatre as part of a spring season that also includes Philip Osment‘s tale of forbidden love This Island’s Mine, Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky‘s hit satire Brexit and the UK premiere of one-woman play Coral Browne: This F***ing Lady.
Rehearsal gallery
