GUN TO YOUR HEAD by Simon Jaggers to be Presented at VAULT Festival in February
In this riotous punk-play of pop culture, games and reddit folklore, the stakes keep rising. Gun to your head... what could go wrong?
By: Chloe Rabinowitz Jan. 05, 2023
GUN TO YOUR HEAD is the highly-anticipated full-length stage premiere by Simon Jaggers (Soho Theatre, Theatre 503, Southwark Playhouse). A punk-production exploring the brilliance of youth in darkest England.
It's summer and teenage runaways Dakota and Bede are hiding out in an abandoned quarry, buried deep in the belly of England. It's a magical, frightening place, where youth tangles with death and dreams are forgotten. A razor-edged playground in which our tearaways can escape their troubled pasts and create impossible futures.
In this riotous punk-play of pop culture, games and reddit folklore, the stakes keep rising. Gun to your head... what could go wrong?
'Simon Jaggers is a visionary from England's wastelands. A poet finding beauty in the broken. Gun To Your Head is a celebration of a play. Like a Disco Pigs for England's ghost hours. It's so beautiful it's actually ludicrous.' - Simon Stephens, playwright
'Simon Jaggers writes with precision, wit and humanity. He's a playwright of real promise.' - David Eldridge, Playwright and Screenwriter
'Gun to your Head' is a kind of Thelma and Louise for Generation Z, it genuinely feels like it might be that rarest of things: a classic in the making.' - Simon Usher & Colin Ellwood, Joint Artistic Directors at Presence Theatre
CAST
Abdul Jalloh - Bede, Actor
(Victoria Lepper Associates LLP)
Wuthering Heights (Sarah Goodal); Hedda Gabler (Neil Duggan); Love Lies & Taxidermy (Simon Stephens); Deep Cuts (Catherine Palmer); Zion (Suzan Mclean); 'Casualty' (BBC One) (Abdul's episode won the Rose D'Or for Best Soap or Telenova); 'The Dog Ate My Homework' (CBBC); Shadow (NFTS), 'If I Die Today' (Candle And Bell), 'The Lies of our Confines' (Solaris 2) and 'Natural Reward' (COAS).
Shakira Riddell-Morales - Dakota, Actor
(Bloomfields Welch Management)
'Fangirls The Musical: Workshop' (Sonia Friedman Productions); Daize in 'The Silence And The Noise' (Papatango Theatre Company); Lubna in 'Fireworks' (The Royal Court Theatre); Young Eponine and Young Cosette in 'Les Miserables' (West End); Performed alongside Cush Jumbo (The Evening Standard Awards); Soloist, Alfie Boe Bring Him Home (The Royal Festival Hall).
CREATIVE TEAM
Simon Jaggers Writer
Simon Jaggers is a playwright from London. Last year he won a place on The London Library Emerging Writers Programme 21/22 and this year his play Manifest Release Machine was longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize. Theatre credits include: Theatre503, Soho Theatre, Bread & Roses, The Bunker and Southwark Playhouse. He is also a songwriter/performer and spent his youth playing in punk bands - supporting headliners The Strokes, Babyshambles and Violent Femmes. Gun to your Head will be his full-length stage premiere.
Giacomo Esposito Director
(Bread and Roses Theatre, Directors Cut, Southwark Playhouse, Hen & Chickens Theatre, The Guardian)
Rosa Torr Producer/Dramaturg
(National Centre for Writing, BBC, Soho Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, TARA Arts, Smock Alley, Waterstones, First Light Festival, The Garage)
Shane Gill Light and Sound Design
(Galway International Arts Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, New Theatre, Theatre Upstairs, Reality: Check Productions, Corps Ensemble, VAULT Festival)
https://www.shanegilldesign.com/
Louise Collins Casting Director
(Granada Nights, Casting associate: Disney + Wedding Season and The New Pope)
Performance Details:
Title of the show: Gun to your Head
Dates: Tuesday 14th- Saturday 18th February 2023
Times: 8.30pm ever day, plus 2.30pm and 6.10pm on Saturday 18th February
Running Time: 70 Minutes
Venue: The Cavern, The Vaults, Leake Street, London, SE1 7NN
Ticket Prices: From £11.50
Booking Link: www.vaultfestival.com/events/gun-to-your-head/
Social Media: @GunToYourHead23 , #GUNTOYOURHEADPLAY
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