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APPLES
Written by Richard Milward
Adapted and directed by John Retallack
With additional material by Richard Milward
Partners: A co-production with Northern Stage supported by Arts Council England; Middlesbrough Empire;
Dates: 2 June – 2 October, 2010
(Edinburgh Fringe, Latitude Festival and on national tour - see schedule below)
Designed by: Verity Quinn
Lighting Design by: Graham Wilson
Movement by: Harriet Plewis
Scenic artist: Richard Milward
Cast: Jade Byrne, Dylan Edge, Abigail Moffatt, Therase Neve, Louis Roberts, Scott Turnbull
Winner of a Herald Angels Award 2010 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Shameless, ruthless and intensely poetic, Apples is a dazzling, tragicomic love story of adolescence. Eve has tasted every kind of apple. Adam hasn’t tasted anything at all. When two such different people meet, is paradise lost or might it be found?
For latest reviews on Apples at the Edinburgh Fringe, please click here.
“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 drugs, the sex, the boozing... it all smacks beautifully of the real thing.”
(The Times)
"Funny, tragic and transcendent." (Lauren Laverne)
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)
For the latest tour reviews, please go here.
Tour schedule:
Middlesbrough Empire
June 2 - 4 7.30pm
01642 729729
www.middlesbrough.gov.uk/entertainment
Brewhouse Theatre Taunton
June 8 - 9 7.45pm
01823 283244
www.thebrewhouse.net
Warwick Arts Centre
June 14 - 15 7.45pm
024 7652 4524
www.warwickartscentre.co.uk
The Albany, Deptford
June 16 - 17 7.30pm
020 8692 4446
www.thealbany.org.uk
Washington Arts Centre, Sunderland
June 19 7.30pm
0191 219 3455
www.artscentrewashington.co.uk
The Rose Theatre, Kingston
June 21 - 22 7.30pm
0871 230 1552
www.rosetheatrekingston.org
Oxford Burton Taylor Studio
June 23 - 26 7.30pm
01865 305 305
www.oxfordplayhouse.com
Bristol Old Vic
June 28 - 30 8pm
0117 987 7877
www.bristololdvic.org.uk
Harrogate Theatre
July 1 - 3 7.45pm
01423 502 116
www.harrogatetheatre.co.uk
Pomegrante Theatre, Chesterfield
July 6 - 7 7.30pm
01246 345 222
www.pomegranatetheatre.co.uk
Latitude Festival
July 16 - 17
0871 231 0846
www.latitudefestival.co.uk
Rosehill Theatre, Whitehaven
July 23 - 24 7.30pm
01946 692 422
www.rosehilltheatre.co.uk
Hull Truck Theatre
July 26 - 27 8pm
01482 323 638
www.hulltruck.co.uk
macrobert arts centre, Stirling
July 30 - 31 times vary
01786 466 666
www.macrobert.org
Edinburgh Fringe
Traverse @ St Stephens
10 - 28 August 4pm
0131 228 1404
www.traverse.co.uk
Northern Stage
September 8 - 25 8pm
0191 230 5151
www.northernstage.co.uk www.applestheplay.co.ukJoin our facebook group How d'ya like them apples? for the latest news and updates!
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