HEAR ME HOWL Comes to The Old Red Lion Theatre

From Lights Down Productions comes HEAR ME HOWL - a bitingly honest portrayal of one woman's personal revolution.

The show plays The Old Red Lion Theatre, 418 St John Street, London, EC1V 4NJ Tuesday 18th - Saturday 29th September 2018 at 7:30pm. Saturday Matinee's: 3pm

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, by Soho Theatre Writer Alumnus and BFI Funny Girl Finalist Lydia Rynne is the debut one-woman play of Lights Down Productions, a new theatre company

dedicated to female voices. Led by an all-female team with JMK Directors Award Finalist Kay Michael as director and Fay Milton as musical consultant - drummer of twice Mercury Award nominated internationally renowned all-female punk band Savages (http:// savagesband.com).

The play is a moving but hilarious late coming-of-age story, of a woman suddenly questioning the social expectations of her prescribed gender, all whilst throwing herself defiantly into the noise and politics of post-punk, joining a band and playing an instrument for the first time.

While there have been many plays that have explored motherhood, pregnancy and the trouble women have to conceive, HEAR ME HOWL addresses the taboo issues of abortion and a woman's choice to remain childless. We want to shed light on this, to encourage discussion and greater acceptance of women who make this unrepresented choice.

To further engage our audience we will be running post show Q&A's at The Old Red Lion Theatre with The League of Fabulous Women, a childfree lifestyle network, Abortion Rights UK and London Irish Abortion Rights Campaign, who campaigned to Repeal the 8th Amendment of the Irish Constitution. HEAR ME HOWL previously had an Arts Council funded work in progress performance at The Landor Space (previously The Landor Theatre) in March and one performance at Barbican Theatre, Plymouth as part of The Plymouth Fringe in May.

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