Cast Announced For BAFTA-Nominated Writer John Fitzpatrick's New Play REARED At Theatre503

Cast announced for Reared by John Fitzpatrick Theatre503, 503 Battersea Park Road, London SW11 3BW Wednesday 4th - Saturday 28th April 2018.

She wiped his arse as a child, surely he should be wiping her arse now BAFTA - nominated writer John Fitzpatrick's brand new play Reared will debut at Theatre503 this April.

With unfailing humour, Reared tackles intergenerational conflict, postnatal depression, and the role of the Irish mother in the ' sandwich ' generation caught looking after both their children and their parents. Featuring Shelley Atkinson ( A Midsummer Night's Dream, promenade productio n in Clapham and Oxford ; The Borrowers, the New Vic Theatre ; Blithe Spirit, Stephen Joseph Theatre ), Daniel Crossley ( Singin ' in the Rain, Palace Theatre ; As You Like It, Shakespeare's Globe ; Sweet Charity, Manchester Royal Exchange ), Paddy Glynn ( Silent W itness, BBC ; House of Bernada Alba, Manchester Royal Exchange ; Beauty Queen of Leenane, Irish tour ), Rohan Nedd ( Doctor Who, BBC ; The Machine Stops, York Theatre Royal ; Doctors, BBC ), and Danielle Phillips ( Ready Player One, Warner Bros & Dreamworks ; E15, UK Tour ; The 56, UK Tour ), Reared will come to Theatre503 from Wednesday 4 th April until Saturday 28th April.

Under one roof, three generations of Anglo - Irish women try to find space for a fourth. As Caitlin waits for life to begin, her grandmother Nora fear s the end and Eileen frets about them both. Between her mother - in - law's incipient dementia and her daughter's struggle for independence, Eileen finds herself battling to adjust her household and wrangle her husband. The Constitution of Ir eland holds t hat the family is the cornerstone of society and at the heart of the family i s the mother. As Eileen struggles to find some sort of control over her life she begins to see that the enemy might not be a controlling mother - in - law or an ineffectual husband bu t rather the roles they have been forced into.

Writer John Fitzpatrick comments, At the heart of this play, I hope there are warm, funny, hard - working women. Society has set them against one another and yet, through their resilience, they manage to deeply care for and protect each other. Reared ha d to be funny because the women I've grown up with in Ireland are the wittiest people I know and I'd be doing them a disservice if my characters didn't at least try to match their level of humour. Reared will also take part in Theatre503 ' s Rapid Write Response. Writers are invited to see the new work and write a 10 minute play in response to it. These will need to be submitted by Monday 9th April. The company will read and choose between six and eight short plays which will be read and partly staged on Sunday 22 nd and Monday 23 rd April. Reared is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

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