‘I ran as fast as I could. I ran and I ran and I ran until I couldn’t run anymore…’ Lonesome Schoolboy return to Theatre N16, after He(art), with Olympiads. A tale about far more than sporting aspiration. Set around Summer 2012 in Wembley, in the shadow of one of London’s biggest sporting venues, Simeon […]
NEWS: Andrew Maddock’s Olympilads premieres at N16 in August, cast announced
Casting has been announced for Andrew Maddock’s new play OLYMPILADS, which kicks off Lonesome Schoolboy Productions’ summer season, running at Theatre N16 in Balham, south London, from 8 to 26 August 2017, with a press night on 10 August. Rhys Yates, Michelle Barwood and Neibu Samuel star.
NEWS: Theatre N16 announces new season
In his first season as artistic director of Theatre N16, Scott Ellis presents a slew of new writing.
Olympilads by Andrew Maddock, produced by Lonesome Schoolboy and directed by Niall Phillips, reunites the team that presented He(art) at Theatre N16 earlier this year.
HE(ART) – Theatre N16
Andrew Maddock examines the lengths that people will go to in order to protect the ones that they love through the eyes of four very different characters. In He(ART), audiences meet Alice who wants Rhys to sort out his heart condition and Kevin and sister Sam just want to know that their mum is going to be ok.
HE(ART) – Theatre N16
Andrew Maddock is one of my favourite new writers. He seems to focus on people, rather than characters and stories over storylines. His new play He(art), produced by Lonesome Schoolboy, is about four people and two stories.
HE(ART) – TheatreN16
An interesting change of tack here from Andrew Maddock, who has been steadily carving out a niche for himself in doing creative things in and around the world of monologues (qv #1, #2, #3). Opening at Balham’s TheatreN16, HE(ART) starts in a Maddockian (Maddockish? Maddockesque?) way with two separate duologues intercut with each other, and playing out at the same time.
HE(ART) – Theatre N16
Running at just over an hour, writer Andrew Maddock fits in the nature of art and its criticism, public health, social class, poverty and loyalty across two very different sets of characters in the same neighbourhood.
HE(ART) – Theatre N16
Two boys and two girls, contemporary twenty something Londoners. Window cleaner Rhys is struggling to keep up with his posh girlfriend, art gallery curator Alice. Initially it seems incongruous that she is so determined to make a go of the relationship with her insecure and emotionally unavailable boyfriend.
INTERVIEW: Spotlight On…Star of HE(ART), Alex Reynolds
He(art) is a new play by Andrew Maddock. It follows the lives of four people, Kevin and Sam, Alice and Rhys, all of them trying to survive in their own way, all of them fighting for something that could ultimately make or break them.
Alice just wants Rhys to help her pick a piece of art for their living room wall. And go to her family doctor to make sure the ‘Heart thingie’ he’s got is under control. But he won’t. Because he’s a Wembley Warrior. Kev’s just got out of prison, he’s not supposed to be, and he’s going to be in a lot of trouble when he’s found. But his sister Sam needs help to make sure mum gets the treatment the NHS won’t pay for. And they’ve all got their eye on the same painting.
THE WE PLAYS – Hope Theatre
Having been entranced by Andrew Maddock’s In/Out (A Feeling), which received an Off-West End award nomination, my hopes were high. This new play is a set of two monologues entitled The We Plays. I wasn’t disappointed. We met two distinctive and memorable characters, watched them in glory and shame, and were drawn into their emotional past.
INTERVIEW: Spotlight On… The We Plays writer Andrew Maddock
The We Plays are a continuation of a series of Monologues I wrote in 2014 titled ‘The Me Plays’. Those plays ‘Junkie’ & ‘Hi Life, I Win” were semi autobiographical in nature and framed into a character of ‘Me’. Which I wrote and performed. Very Meta.
IN/OUT (A FEELING) – Hope Theatre
Some plays fit gloriously into their surroundings. The Hope Theatre, a dark little room above a pub, captured perfectly the essence of, well, a dark room above a pub. Only this one is a brothel. Set in contemporary London, Ollie and Blue are doomed to circle the same small sphere of existence, searching for meaning or escape.