Georgie Henley and Tyrone Huntley to Star in World Premiere Monologues ANGRY

Henley and Huntley will perform the series of five gender-neutral monologues on subjects as diverse as refugees, millennial anger, and interstellar travel. All five monologues will be performed by each actor over the course of the run, but which actor performs each individual monologue will alternate night-to-night.

A spaceship hurtles towards a black hole. A book-loving couple flee a burning city. A bloodshot eye conjures up kisses and wild animals. Angry is a menacing, magical, and darkly comedic collection of stories that vibrate with the lingering unease of our times.

Philip Ridley developed Angry over a four-year period in a close partnership with director Max Lindsay. "Phil and I started exploring things that made us, well angry, and the play sort of grew out of that." says Lindsay, "We were drawn to this idea of what it means to be a man and to be a woman in the modern world, and where the differences are. Having the same words said by both a man and a woman over the course of the run will give the audiences the chance to see the how the same events can have a very different impact.

"What's incredible is how relevant Angry feels today. Phil wrote it before President Trump, Weinstein and #MeToo but it feels like it could have been a direct response to current events. He's always a dozen steps ahead of the rest of us, it's part of his genius."

Georgie Henley shot to worldwide fame aged eight when she was cast as the lead, Lucy Pevensie, in the Oscar-winning Chronicles of Narnia series. She took time out of acting to study English at Cambridge before returning to star opposite Ella Purnell in indie film Access All Areas.

Tyrone Huntley most recently reprised his critically acclaimed role as Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar at Regents Park Open Air Theatre for which he received an Olivier Award nomination and was featured by ES Magazine as one of 10 of London's hottest new talents to watch in 2016. He also won the Evening Standard Award for Emerging Talent at last year's Awards.

The show is being produced by Tramp, whose Offie-nominated production of Tennessee Williams' Confessional broke Southwark Playhouse's box office record last year for their studio space, The Little.
Jack Silver, Artistic Director of Tramp, said:

"It's amazing to be back at Southwark Playhouse with such an incredible piece of writing. When I first read it I was just blown away, but it wasn't until we started auditions that I realised quite how incredible Phil's writing is. Seeing so many actors give their take on the monologues was mesmerising. It gives the actors a blank canvas and yet there's a magnetic rhythm to the words."

Cast:

• Her - Georgie Henley
• Him - Tyrone Huntley
• Creative Team:
• Writer - Philip Ridley
• Director - Max Lindsay
• Designer - James Turner Donnelly
• Casting Director - Jane Frisby
• Casting Assistant - Stephanie Hume
• Production Company - Tramp
• Producers - Jack Silver and Hannah Tookey
• PR - Paul Sullivan
• Social Media - Danielle Boobyer

For tickets: http://southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/show/angry/#booking

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