WOLFBOY Makes Its West End Premiere at Trafalgar Studios 2, 7/7

Jason Haigh-Ellery and Christopher D Clegg present the West End premiere of the psycho-sexual musical thriller Wolfboy based on the play by Brad Fraser. Book by Russell Labey, Music & Lyrics by Leon Parris, Directed by Russell Labey with a cast that includes Paul Holowaty and Gregg Lowe.

Former "Hollyoaks" pin-up Paul Holowaty is to make his West?End acting debut in the London premiere of the psycho-sexual musical thriller, Wolfboy, at Trafalgar Studios 2 from Tuesday 6 July to Saturday 31 July.

Press night is Thursday July 8 at 7.00pm

Two teenagers share an intimate adventure in a boy's home. Bernie has attempted suicide and David is a street hustler who may or may not have the powers of a wolf.

Wolfboy is adapted from the play by Brad Fraser ("Love & Human Remains") by Russell Labey and Leon Parris. The original play is famous for a 1984 production in Toronto starring a then unknown Keanu Reeves. A version of this production premiered at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe?Festival, also starring Paul Holowaty and?Gregg Lowe.

There is currently an upsurge in interest in all things vampiric or lycanthropic in films/books/TV/plays. But if "Twilight" is your average boy(vampire)-meets-girl story then Wolfboy is your less average boy(werewolf)-meets-boy story. Of course we all know werewolves don't exist. And people have to grow up. And stories must end. And as this one does we move further from fantasy to the cold reality of the corruptive devastation that is wrought by child abuse and neglect. Brad Fraser's writing is honest, visceral, and often controversial, and this musical re-telling is no less uncompromising.

Paul Holowaty is best known as "Hollyoaks" bad boy Steven Macintosh, 'Macki'. He achieved pin-up status and was the featured Torso of the Week in Heat magazine. An earlier role as 12-year-old schoolboy Neil Fearns on "Coronation Street", saw him getting fellow classmate Sarah Louise Platt (Tina O' Brian) pregnant.

Gregg Lowe previously starred in thr West?End with Nicholas Hoult from "Skins" in the sold-out production of "New Boy", also directed and adapted by Russell Labey.

Brad Fraser (original playwright) is Canada's best-known playwright. His international hit play "Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love" was made into a film in 1994.

Russell Labey (director/book) has created plays and musicals in London, New York, and extensively at the Edinburgh Festival. He adapted William Sutcliffe's novel "New Boy" and directed the play at Trafalgar Studios 2 in March 2009 with "Skins" star Nicholas Hoult, having opened at the Pleasance Edinburgh and played New York and Melbourne. He was the script editor on the Oscar-winning movie "Milk", starring Sean Penn. He wrote and directed the original stage musical adaptation of "Whistle Down The Wind", which opened in Edinburgh before playing West Yorkshire Playhouse and Sadler's Wells amongst others, and winning the TMA Award for Best New Musical. His other theatre work includes "Days Of Hope" by Howard Goodall (King's Head); "Discotivity" (Gilded Balloon); and "Hardcore" by Jonathan Hall (Pleasance).

Leon Parris (Music & Lyrics) was the youngest ever winner of the prestigious Vivian Ellis Award for Best Musical for "Going Once". He also won The Really Useful Group Award for Most Promising Writer, The Warner Chappell and The Mercury Workshop Awards and the CameRon Mackintosh Bursary.

Wolfboy is produced by Jason Haigh-Ellery and Christopher D Clegg.

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