A Bush Theatre Production
God bless this country, God bless karaoke and God save the Queen
It’s Saturday night at The Albion, a proper East End boozer and the unofficial home of the English Protection Army. Get your names in early: it’s karaoke night and it’s gonna be big.
Little brother Jayson’s out front smashing it on the mic but behind the scenes the leadership of the EPA is falling apart. Paul knows the public won’t listen to a bunch of hooligans but his deputy Kyle wants a fight. Christine’s sure that the key to success is in the company you keep and the language you speak.
This is England and it’s time to take it back.
Chris Thompson’s explosive play examined the turbulent rise of the new far right in modern day Britain. When they embrace diversity, just how far can the far right go?
Chris Thompson’s debut play Carthage premiered at the Finborough Theatre in 2014. In his previous career as a social worker, Chris worked with young people in sexual health, child protection and with young offenders. A Channel 4 Playwright Scheme winner, Albion was his first commission from the Bush Theatre.
Ria Parry is Joint Artistic Director and co-founder of Iron Shoes, previously an Associate Company at the Bush Theatre. A winner of the Leverhulme Bursary for Emerging Directors, Ria was Resident Director at the National Theatre Studio. In 2011 she directed the critically acclaimed Mad about the Boy by Gbolahan Obisesan (Bush Theatre and national tour).
Albion was sponsored by the Simon Gray Award.
Dave Price has worked as a composer, multi-instrumentalist, performer, sound designer, producer, teacher and a drummer in a pop band.
He studied violin and piano, read music at Durham University and taught himself to play percussion before receiving a scholarship to study with Stanislaw Skoczynski at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw for three years.
He co- founded the experimental music collective Noszferatu who perform regularly at major UK contemporary music festivals and on BBC Radio 3. Their CD Drempel (NMC) includes his composition Lee’s Game, which was short-listed for a BASCA Composers Award in 2008.
He has composed music for numerous theatre productions and has a longstanding association with the award winning physical dance theatre company Gecko. He was a performer in Taylor’s Dummies and The Overcoat, and composed original scores for The Overcoat, Missing and Institute.
Dave works regularly with singer songwriter Gwyneth Herbert, co-producing her most recent album The Sea Cabinet, and with the pop group Aqualung, recording five studio albums and touring extensively.
Other recent highlights include original scores for From Morning to Midnight (National Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bristol Old Vic and international tour), A Soldier in Every Son, Troilus and Cressida and Measure for Measure (RSC), Young, Autistic and Stagestruck (Channel 4 / Lyric Hammersmith); recording with Regina Spektor (Far) and Duke Special (Oh Pioneer!), Finn Peters’ Music of the Mind project and gigs with Eska.
David is an international lighting designer working in theatre, dance, ballet and opera.
Dance productions include Absent Made Present (New Commissions for ROH2 Linbury, Royal Opera House), Peter and the Wolf (European/UK Tour and New York), Secret Garden Ballets (Hatch House, Somerset); Andersen’s Fairy Tales (Bulgarian National Ballet) and Die Walkuré (Denmark New Opera).
Recent theatre credits include Blues In The Night (Hackney Empire); Smallholding (Hightide Festival and Soho Theatre); Bloodshot (UK Tour, Vienna, Canada and St James’s Theatre, London); The Pillowman and The Beauty Queen Of Leenane (Leicester Curve); The Sound Of Music (Cork Opera House); Mad About The Boy (Unicorn, Young Vic and Bush Theatres); Puss In Boots (Hackney Empire), FEN (Finborough). Other work at the Unicorn Theatre includes The Velveteen Rabbit, Hannah, Henry the Fifth, Dr Korczak’s Example and A Winter’s Tale. Extensive work at the Nuffield Southampton includes Don Quixote, Twelfth Night, God of Carnage, Hamlet, Three Sisters (TMA Award), A Streetcar Named Desire, Frankenstein, Nelson, Playboy of the Western World and many others.
Off-Broadway designs include Unsuspecting Susan starring Celia Imrie and Tabloid Caligula.
David is an Associate of Iron Shoes Theatre.
Duncan’s theatre work includes Privacy (Donmar Warehouse); Inside Wagner’s Head (Royal Opera House); Storm in a Flower Vase (Arts Theatre, London); Derren Brown – Infamous (Palace Theatre/UK Tour); The Bodyguard (Adelphi); The Bread & The Beer (Edinburgh Festival); If Only (Chichester Festival); The Kindness of Strangers (Norfolk Festival); Let It Be (Savoy/Broadway/European Tour); The Flying Dutchman (Grand Opera House, Belfast); And In The Beginning Was The End (Somerset House); 9 to 5 – The Musical (UK Tour); Epidemic (Old Vic Tunnels); All New People (Duke of York’s and UK Tour); Shrek the Musical (Drury Lane); Chris Cox – Fatal Distraction (International Tour); Ivan and the Dogs (UK and International Tour); Catwalk Confidential (Miami/London); A Flea in Her Ear (Old Vic); The Tempest (Old Vic/Bridge Project); Kristina (Royal Albert Hall); The Real Thing (Old Vic); The Hairy Bikers Big Night Out (UK Tour); The Norman Conquests (Old Vic/Broadway); Sir Barrington Ganch – My Life is Art (Edinburgh Festival); All About My Mother (Old Vic); Frost/Nixon (Donmar/Gielgud).
Television work includes – BBC News, London Olympics 2012, Newsnight, Match of the Day, The One Show and Strictly Come Dancing BBC.
In 2001, Duncan won the BFI’s Young Filmmaker of the Year Award.
James studied at Wimbledon School of Art. Theatre includes: Jason and The Argonauts, The Nutcracker and The Mouse King, The Velveteen Rabbit, Henry the Fifth, A Winter’s Tale, Dr Korczak’s Example and Not Now, Bernard all at the Unicorn Theatre. Charlotte’s Web and Disgraced for Singapore Repertory Co.; The Island Nation for The Arcola Theatre; Jane Wenham – The Witch of Walkern (Out of Joint); The Edge (Transport Theatre); The Scarecrow’s Wedding (Scamp Theatre); Little Shop of Horrors, Worst Wedding Ever and On Golden Pond (Salisbury Playhouse); Jefferson’s Garden (Watford Palace); Macbeth and Tory Boyz (Ambassador’s Theatre); Albion (Bush Theatre); Absent Made Present (Royal Opera House); Orpheus and Eurydice and Our Days of Rage (Old Vic Tunnels). As associate artist for Iron Shoes he has designed: Fen (Finborough Theatre); Mad About the Boy (UK tour) and My Beautiful Black Dog (Bush Theatre).
Ria is Joint Artistic Director and co-founder of Iron Shoes, an Associate Company at the Bush Theatre.
Ria is currently directing THEATRE FIRST for National Theatre Learning and is developing a project with the Young Vic called THE WEB.
Productions include ON GOLDEN POND by Ernest Thompson at Salisbury Playhouse, THE WINTER’S TALE: RE-IMAGINED at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, DR KORCZAK’S EXAMPLE by David Greig at the Unicorn Theatre, TALES OF WINTER at the Southbank Centre, FEN by Caryl Churchill at the Finborough Theatre, OUR HEARTS IN THE BALANCE at the British Museum, CRUSH by Paul Charlton at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and UK National Tour.
Ria has worked extensively with young people including REWIND, a devised production made in collaboration with young refugees and asylum seekers, and a young people’s production of KING LEAR, both at the Young Vic.
Ria directed the sell-out UK national tour of the critically acclaimed MAD ABOUT THE BOY by Gbolahan Obisesan, including performances at the Young Vic, Bush Theatre, Unicorn Theatre and Bristol Old Vic.
Ria has won two Scotsman Fringe First Awards for MAD ABOUT THE BOY and CRUSH, produced by Iron Shoes. She was awarded the Leverhulme Bursary for Emerging Directors 2010/11, becoming Resident Director at the National Theatre Studio.
Roy Alexander Weise is the 19th annual winner of the James Menzies-Kitchin Award and directed his critically-acclaimed, sell-out production of The Mountaintop by Katori Hall at the Young Vic. Theatre credits include: Nine Night (National Theatre, Trafalgar Studios), Br’er Cotton (Theatre 503), Heretic Voices (Arcola Theatre); Jekyll and Hyde (National Youth Theatre); Dead Don’t Floss (National Theatre); The Ugly One (Park Theatre, Buckland Theatre Company); The Dark (Fuel & Ovalhouse); Zero For The Young Dudes (Young & Talented in association with NT Connections); The Mountaintop (Young Vic); Primetime (Royal Court, Jerwood Theatre); and Stone Face (Finborough Theatre). Assistant Director credits include: Hangmen (Royal Court and West End); X, Escaped Alone,You For Me For You, Primetime 2015,Violence and Son,Who Cares, Liberian Girl (Royal Court); Albion,We Are Proud To Present…(Bush Theatre); and The Serpent’s Tooth (Talawa/Almeida Theatre). For Television, Roy was Trainee Director on Invisible (Red Room/Ballet Boys/Channel 4). Roy has previously worked at the Royal Court as the Trainee Director, at the Bush Theatre and Lyric Hammersmith as the BBC Theatre Fellow and at The Red Room as Associate Artist. Roy is now Associate Director at the Harts Theatre Company and Lead Acting Tutor at Young & Talented School of Stage & Screen.
Delroy’s theatre credits include I Can't Sing! X Factor the Musical (London Palladium), Dick Whittington (Theatre Royal Stratford East), All My Sons (Royal Exchange Theatre), The Amen Corner (Royal National Theatre), Aladdin (Theatre at The 02), The Harder They Come (Theatre Royal Stratford East & Festival Jamaica 50), Wah Wah Girls (Sadler’s Wells), Shrek (Dreamworks/Theatre Royal), Avenue Q (The Gielgud), The Harder They Come (Toronto / Miami Tour), Lost in the Stars (Royal Festival Hall), Come Dancing (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Porgy and Bess (Andrew Fell Ltd), Jerry Springer The Opera (National Theatre), Bombitty of Errors (New Ambassadors Theatre), Rent (Prince of Wales Theatre), Five Guys Named Moe (National Tour), Lautrec (Shaftesbury Avenue), The Enchanted Pig (The Young Vic), Twelfth Night (Nuffield Theatre), Our Country’s Good (Nuffield Theatre), Poison (Tricycle Theatre), The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (WYP), Treasure Island (Nuffield Theatre), Let The Music Play (Hackney Empire), Requiem (CMP).
TV Credits include Small Island (BBC), My Family (BBC), After You’ve Gone (BBC), No Heroics (ITV), Moonmonkeys (BBC), The Bill (Thames TV). Film credits include Still Crazy, Did You Get The Bag?, Rivers of Blood, Fish Out of Water.
Dharmesh’s theatre credits include England Away (National Tour), Too Clever By Half (Manchester Exchange), The Snow Queen (Trestle), King Lear (RSC), Hamlet (RSC), Comedy of Errors (RSC), As You Like It (RSC), Romeo and Juliet (RSC), American Trade (RSC), The Grain Store (RSC), Morte Arthur (RSC), Happy and Married? (Freedom Studios), Satyagraha (Improbable/New York), Beauty and the Beast (Lyric, Hammersmith), Satygraha (Improbable/ENO), Coast (Contact, Manchester), Too Close to Home (Lyric, Hammersmith and Tour), Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Octagon, Bolton), Slow Time (National Theatre), Silent Cry (Red Ladder).
Nicola’s theatre credits include Time and the Conways (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh), Decade (Theatre 503), Fewer Emergencies (The Print Room), Fen (Finborough Theatre / NT Studio), Apart From George (Finborough Theatre), The Glass Menagerie (Royal Lyceum), Stooped Fucken Animals (Traverse, Edinburgh), Angel Among The Trees (Nottingham Playhouse), Snow White (New Victory Theatre, Broadway NYC), The Last Valentine (Almeida Theatre), and Wake (King’s Head Theatre).
TV credits include Doctors (BBC), My Mad Fat Diary (Tiger Aspect Productions), Hollyoaks ( Lime Pictures for Channel 4), May Day (Kudos TV), Emmerdale (ITV), Black Mirror – The Entire History of You (Zeppotron Ltd for Channel 4), Misfits (Clerkenwell Films Ltd for E4), Micro Men (BBC), Medea (BBC) and Hampstead Heath, The Musical (BBC).
Film credits include Close, Heaven on Earth, My Brother The Devil, The Impossible, Control, Forwhatevergoodbye, All You Can Eat, and Dysfunction.
Paul’s theatre credits include Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare’s Globe), Fortune’s Fool (The Old Vic), Guns, Love and Chemistry (Define Choice), The Lights (Define Choice), Accomplice (Menier Chocolate Factory), Battle Acts! (Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters), Lush Life (Canal Café Theatre).
TV credits include Eastenders (BBC), and Beautiful People (BBC). Film credits include Anna Karenina.
Steve’s theatre credits include Bomber’s Moon (Park Theatre), Piaf (Donmar Warehouse and West End), Fives Wives of Maurice Pinder (National Theatre), and Sing Yer Hearts Out For The Lads (National Theatre).
TV credits include playing Michael Moon in Eastenders (BBC), Waking the Dead (BBC), Lunch Monkeys (BBC3), Taggart (Scottish Television), On Expenses (BBC), Being Human II (Touch Paper Television), Material Girl (Carnival Television for Channel 4), Plus One (Kudos / Channel 4), Cold Blood (Granada Television Ltd), Bad Mothers Handbook (ITV), Bonkers (BBC), Lilies (BBC), Dalziel & Pascoe (BBC), New Tricks (Wall to Wall for BBC), Last Chancers (Angel Eye Scotland), Real Men (BBC), Spine Chillers (BBC), The Knock (LWT), Forgive and Forget (Scottish Television), An Unsuitable Job For A Woman (Ecosse Films), Maisie Raine (Fair Game Films Ltd), and This Life (World Productions/BBC2).
Film credits include Romance, The Best Man, Too Much Too Young, Layer Cake, Boudicca, Spy Hole, Star Wars Episode II, Now You See Her, Me Without You, From Hell, Greenwich Mean Time, RPM, I Want You.
Natalie’s theatre credits include 9 To 5 (UK Tour), Abigail’s Party (Royal Theatre Bath), Legally Blonde (The Savoy Theatre), The Invisible Man (Menier Chocolate Factory), Oklahoma (Chichester Festival), Well (Apollo Theatre / Trafalgar Studios), The Flint Street Nativity (Playhouse Theatre Liverpool), Hobson’s Choice (Watermill Theatre), and Vagina Monologues (Palace Theatre Manchester).
Television credits include Dave Shakespeare, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Chopratown and Hollyoaks.
Tony graduated from Arts Educational School of Acting in 2013. For television, his work includes Foyle’s War; and for film, The Second Coming and An Ordinary Life.
