Shook
by Samuel Bailey
dir. Patrick Wilson
Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol | 13-16 June 2024
“WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT IT? ABOUT ANY OF THIS STUFF IN HERE? IT’S ALRIGHT FOR YOU, LIKE. GO HOME TO YER NICE KID AND YER NICE HOUSE BUT WHAT THE F*CK HAS HE GOT? OR ANY OF THE LADS IN HERE?”
Riyad, Jonjo, and Cain are serving time in a Young Offenders Institution. Bound together by their fate behind bars and impending fatherhood, they while away the hours chomping sweets and keeping face. It’s Grace’s responsibility to teach them how to be good dads, but will they ever be good enough for the society that put them behind bars?
Reviews:
“…a striking portrayal of youth, masculinity, and the search for redemption, delivered with unflinching honesty and emotional intensity”
“SHOOK is a terrific piece, Bailey’s work honest, bracing & loaded with fizzing lines, [Wilson’s] production is alive with the friendships & threat of a Young Offenders Institute & has four strong performers in [Ché Tligui, Nuhazet Diaz Cano,] Jesse Cescatti-McFarlane & Molly Hanley.”
Kris Hallett
Director: Patrick Wilson
Designer: Sophie Land
Stage Manager: Freja Abrahams
DSM: Jude Llywelyn
ASMs: Jack Morris & Abby Haigh
Lighting Designer: Will Manthorpe
Sound Designer: Will Muir
Voice and Dialect Coach: Robyn Hunt
Combat Director: Jonathan Howell
Movement Director: Joël Daniel
Costume Supervisor: Rosie McMahon
Performed by Jesse Cescatti-McFarlane, Nuhazet Diaz Cano, Ché Tligui, & Molly Hanley
Production Photography by Craig Fuller