APPLES
Written by Richard Milward
Adapted and directed by John Retallack
Partners: A co-production with Northern Stage supported by Arts Council England
Dates: 2 June – 2 October, 2010 (national tour - see tour schedule below)
Cast: to be confirmed
A dazzling, tragicomic love story of adolescence based on the astonishing debut novel by Richard Milward. Shameless, ruthless and intensely poetic, Apples articulates what it is like to be young.
“Catcher in the Rye meets Arctic Monkeys.” (The Times)
Set on a Middlesbrough council estate, this astonishing piece of
writing by 23 year old Richard Milward, is an electrifying collision of
Irvine Welsh and Virginia Woolf. Streams of poetic, impassioned and
often hilarious words pour from five fifteen year olds as they
negotiate a world where the adults are absent, drugs are everywhere,
sex is desperate and life is both terrifying and thrilling.
The
characters feed every stereotype currently applied to young disaffected
people; they are violent, shameless, ruthless, and their horizons reach
only to their next night out. And yet they challenge our prejudices,
because Milward reveals their brave, complex and profound inner lives,
battling for self-esteem.
“...streaming with gorgeous language, a frighteningly recognisable glimpse into a particular experience of adolescence.” (The Guardian)
“Apples is an electrifying book, as frightening as it is funny.” (The Times)
Tour schedule:
June 2 - 4 Middlesbrough Music Live
June 8 - 9 Brewhouse Taunton
June 14 - 15 Warwick Arts Centre
June 16 - 17 The Albany, Deptford
June 19 Washington Arts Centre, Sunderland
June 23 - 26 Oxford Playhouse
June 28 - 30 Bristol Old Vic
July 1 - 3 Harrowgate Theatre
July 6 - 7 Pomegrante Theatre, Chesterfield
July 16 - 17 Latitude Festival
June 21 - 22 The Rose, Kingston
July 23 - 24 Rosehill Theatre, Whitehaven
July 26 - 27 Hull Truck Theatre
July 30 - 31 macrobert arts centre, Stirling
September 8 - 25 Northern Stage
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