Alice Pitt-Carter stars as thirty-year-old Jess, who chooses punk over having children, in Lydia Rynne’s one-woman play HEAR ME HOWL. Check out these fab photos of Alice as she unleashes her inner punk on the playground in the run-up to the play’s premiere this month to London’s Old Red Lion Theatre. Time to get booking!
Jess is turning 30 when she presses pause on the conventional life she’s been living and joins a punk band. Sure, some might argue that punk is dead, others could say she should really stick to the day job, but the resounding concern is: shouldn’t she be settling down by now? From behind her drum kit, warming up for her very first gig, Jess lurches defiantly into an unknown future.
HEAR ME HOWL marks the debut of both playwright Lydia Rynne and Lights Down Productions, a new theatre company founded by Caley Powell and dedicated to female voices. Alice Pitt-Carter stars as Jess. The all-female production team is led by director Kay Michael with Fay Milton, drummer of twice Mercury Award nominated, all-female punk band Savages, as musical consultant.
The play is a moving but hilarious late coming-of-age story, of a woman suddenly questioning the social expectations of her prescribed gender, including motherhood, all whilst throwing herself into the noise and politics of post-punk, joining a band and playing an instrument for the first time.
Alice Pitt-Carter as Jess
Publicity photography by Kay Michael.
Think black-and-white is a little more punk? Okay, here you go.
