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GROTTY

BUNKER THEATRE

BY IZZY TENNYSON
DIRECTED BY HANNAH HAUER-KING

1-26 MAY 2018

No one goes to the circus to get laid, do they? ... I do.

Welcome to the desert. The London lesbian scene. A couple of little sad old basements that drip with sweat and piss. We sit, listening to second-hand pulsating noise coming from some gay boy night upstairs. And it’s a Wednesday. And it’s a night called the ‘Clam Jam’. Can you imagine being straight and going to a night called the ‘Cock and Hole’?

The women in black. The best tables are marked theirs by a crowd of empty prosecco bottles. They sit there in their uniformed black, a deep rich black only lots of money can buy... and they are looking at you.

They are not nice girls. But this is not a nice story. 

Grotty is a dark, savage, and unflinching exploration of lesbian subculture in London. Written by award-winning writer Izzy Tennyson (Brute, Runts, Career Boy) and directed by Hannah Hauer-King (Dry Land, Brute, Fury), Damsel Productions presents this fierce new lesbian drama that takes no prisoners.

CREATIVE TEAM

Writer Izzy Tennyson

Director Hannah Hauer-King

Producer Kitty Wordsworth

Designer Anna Reid

Lighting Designer Zoe Spurr

Sound Designer & Composer Alexandra Faye Braithwaite

Producer Kitty Wordsworth

Production Manager Heather Doole

Stage Manager Katie Bachtler

Assistant Producer Molly Eagles

Assistant Director Rosie Gray

Assistant Designer Elle Tennyson

Assistant Stage Manager Izzy Evans

Special thanks to: Arts Council England, Anya Hindmarch, ASOS, Bleach London, Brasserie Zédel, Bryony Coleman, Dalston Superstore, Debra Hauer, Denis Raeburn, Ekaterina Kashyntseva, Jeremy King, Joyce Hytner, Kalle Jurvanen and Target Live, Lady Angela Bernstein, Lee Menzies, Lyn Schey, Nicholas Allott and The Mackintosh Foundation, Oliver King and Grant Edwards of Wild Yak Productions, Partizan, Simply Wigs, Soho Theatre, Southwark Council.

Photography: The Other Richard