Boys Will Be Boys | Rehearsal Shot | Photo by Helen Murray
★★★★
“With filthy jokes and heartbreaking songs, selling your soul never looked so stylish.”
Time Out
Astrid Wentworth is ruthless. If there is a special hell for women who don’t help each other, Astrid’s got the top table reserved and a martini waiting.
But, when the young and ambitious Priya applies for a junior position on the trading floor, Astrid recognises something in her and decides to give her a go. After all, what’s gender got to do with it?
The Bush Theatre and Headlong take over the iconic Bush Hall for an exhilarating night out featuring cabaret music and performed by an all-female cast.
Boys Will Be Boys is supported by the MA Dramatic Writing at Drama Centre London at Central Saint Martins
Amy is Creative Associate for Headlong. Previously at the Bush Theatre she has directed Am I Dead Yet? an Unlimited Theatre production that showcased at RADAR 2014.
Her directing credits include 7-75 (The Place), Our Big Land (Romany Theatre Company), The Rover (Hampton Court Palace), Romeo and Juliet (Theatre Uz, Uzbekistan for the British Council), Clytemnestra, The Sanger, Light Arrested, Measure For Measure, A Christmas Carol, Small Change (Sherman Cymru, while Associate Director 2008-2011), Cloak Room (Sherman and Washington DC), Playing The Game (Tricycle), Mules (Young Vic), The Ethics Of Progress (Unlimited Theatre), The Tempest, Kick For Touch (Orange Tree Theatre), Change? (West Yorkshire Playhouse).
Amy was Studio Associate at the National Theatre (2013-14) and was recipient of Jerwood directors award 2007.
Emma has been an Associate Artist of the Bush Theatre and her credits here include Three Birds, Where’s My Seat, Like A Fishbone, The Whiskey Taster, If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet, 2nd May 1997, Apologia, The Contingency Plan, Wrecks, Broken Space Season, 2000 Feet Away, My Romantic History and Tinderbox.
Theatre credits include Great Expectations (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Elizabeth (Royal Opera House), The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe (Birmingham Rep), The Oresteia (Home Theatre, Manchester), Wuthering Heights, The Merchant Of Venice, Consensual (NYT), The Effect (Sheffield Theatres), Henry The Fifth (Unicorn Theatre, Imaginate Festival), All My Sons (Talawa Theatre, UK Tour), Hello/Goodbye, The Blackest Black, #aiww: The Arrest Of Ai Wei Wei, Lay Down Your Cross, Blue Heart Afternoon (Hampstead Theatre), Each His Own Wilderness, Widower’s House (Orange Tree Theatre), Accolade (St James Theatre), Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (Royal Exchange, Royal And Derngate And Northern Stage), Pitcairn (Out of Joint, Chichester Festival Theatre & UK Tour), Saints (Nuffield), The Colby Sisters Of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Tricycle Theatre), Pests (Clean Break, Royal Exchange & Royal Court), Carthage (Finborough Theatre, Coriolanus, Berenice, The Physicists, Making Noise Quietly, The Recruiting Officer (Donmar Warehouse), All My Sons, A Doll’s House, Three Birds, The Accrington Pals, Lady Windermere’s Fan (Royal Exchange), Much Ado About Nothing (Old Vic), Nut (National Theatre), OMG! (Sadlers Wells, The Place & Company Of Angels), There Are Mountains (Clean Break, HMP Askham Grange), The Promise (Donmar Warehouse at Trafalgar Studios), You Can Still Make A Killing (Southwark Playhouse), The Sacred Flame (English Touring Theatre), Black T-Shirt Collection (Fuel UK Tour and National Theatre), Invisible (Transport UK Tour & Luxemborg), Much Ado About Nothing (Wyndhams Theatre, West End), Precious Little Talent (Trafalgar Studios), Charged (Clean Break, Soho Theatre), Men Should Weep (National Theatre), Travels With My Aunt (Northampton Theatre Royal), Sisters (Sheffield Theatres), Pornography (Birmingham Rep/Traverse and Tricycle Theatre), Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat (National Theatre), Europe (Dundee Rep, Barbican Pit).
Emma is the Associate Sound Designer for the National Theatre’s production of War Horse. She won the Falstaff Award for Best Sound Design/Original Score for her work on Coriolanus at the Donmar Warehouse in 2014.
James’ theatre credits include Two Gentlemen of Verona (Shakespeare’s Globe & UK Tour), Rolling Stone (Orange Tree Theatre), The Odyssey (ETT & Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse & UK Tour), Shibboleth (Abbey Theatre, Dublin), The Rolling Stone (Manchester Royal Exchange & WYP), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse), Teh Internet is Serious Business, A Short History of the Royal Court (Royal Court), Posh (Royal Court & West End), The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler (Vanishing Point and National Theatre of Scotland Scottish Tour & Brighton Festival), Dick Whittington and His Cat, Jack and the Beanstalk, Secret Theatre Show 1 (Lyric Hammersmith), Our Big Land (Romany Theatre Company), Coffee (Pleasance, Edinburgh).
James is currently working on the boxing musical journeyman and developing lord of the darts, the second piece in his sporting musical trilogy.
Awards: Best Music and Sound Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland (CATs) for The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler (Vanishing Point and National Theatre of Scotland).
For Radio: Carmen by Dan Allum.
TV includes: Objects of Desire (Sky Arts).
As a singer and flautist he has worked with, amongst others, Tom Jones, Barry Adamson, Kate Nash and Blondie.
James is a founder member of, and arranger for, award-winning vocal harmony band The Magnets they have appeared on The Review Show, Comic Relief, Parkinson, GMTV, BBC Proms in the Park and Blue Peter as well as sessions for Radio 1 and 2.
Jennifer studied music at Glasgow University and the University of Massachusetts.
Her theatre credits as conductor/pianist include Betty Blue Eyes, Les Misérables, Avenue Q, Follies, The Wiz, The Threepenny Opera, Cats, Sunset Boulevard, My Fair Lady, Whistle Down The Wind, The Phantom Of The Opera, Martin Guerre, Show Boat and Dames At Sea.
In television she was musical director for ITV’s PopIdol and BBC1’s Can’t Sing Singers. She then worked on Hit Me Baby One More Time and Soapstar Superstar for ITV and composed title and incidental music for two documentary series for the BBC entitled Tsunami Prayers and Vet Safari.
Her credits as a composer for theatre include Shehallion, a Celtic music and dance show, The Famished Land, an Irish folk musical drama, and Chasing Fate, a gritty urban musical co-written with disadvantaged teenagers. Her newest piece for theatre is an American jazz musical called Orville In The Underworld.
Most recently she was on-set pianist for the movie version of Les Misérables at Pinewood Studios, associate musical director for The Magistrate at the Royal National Theatre and she has just recorded her first solo album of piano music for Mozart Records.
Joanna Scotcher trained at the Royal Shakespeare Company and is Associate Designer with Look Left Look Right. In 2011 she received the WhatsOnStage ‘Best Set Designer’ Award for her site specific design of The Railway Children, which went on to win the Olivier award for Best Entertainment. Recent work includes The Rolling Stone (Orange Tree Theatre), Anna Karenina, The Rolling Stone (Royal Exchange/ West Yorkshire Playhouse), The Railway Children (King’s Cross Station), Pests (Clean Break/ Royal Court Theatre), Antigone (Pilot Theatre) and A Harlem Dream (Young Vic/ Dance Umbrella).
Melissa is a playwright and comedy writer. She studied at the University of Melbourne and then took an MA in Writing for Performance at Goldsmiths. Melissa’s play Beached won the 2010 Patrick White Playwrights Award awarded by the Sydney Theatre Company funded by STC and the Sydney Morning Herald. She is currently writing a Connections play and working with Headlong and the Bush on her play Boys Will Be Boys.
RC-ANNIE Ltd, established in 2005 by Rachel Bown-Williams and Ruth Cooper-Brown, is the UK’s leading Dramatic Violence Company.
RC-ANNIE Ltd, established in 2005 by Rachel Bown-Williams and Ruth Cooper-Brown, is the UK’s leading Dramatic Violence Company.
Theatre credits include: The Threepenny Opera (National Theatre), Barnbow Canaries (West Yorkshire Playhouse), The Invisible Hand (Tricycle Theatre), Soul (Royal and Derngate/Hackney Empire), The Nap (Sheffield Cruicible), Cleansed (National Theatre), Great Expectations (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Jumpy (Theatr Clwyd), Deathtrap (Salisbury Playhouse), The James Plays (National Theatre Scotland), 80 Days Around the World (St James Theatre/Simon Friend Entertainment), My People (Theatr Clwyd), A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes (Tricycle Theatre), Richard III (West Yorkshire Playhouse), All My Sons (Theatr Clwyd), Peter Pan: The Never Ending Story Arena Tour (Music Hall, Belgium), The Mentalists (Old Vic Productions at The Wyndhams Theatre), Brave New World Royal and Derngate and Theatre Consortium), The Gift and Larksong (New Vic Theatre, Newcastle Under Lyme), King John (Royal and Derngate and Shakespeare’s Globe), Way Up Stream (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Famous Victories of Henry V (RSC), Animals (Theatre503), Playing for Time and Blasted (Sheffield Crucible), Blasted (The Other Room), The Merchant of Venice, King Charles III (Almeida Theatre), Girl Fights (RSC), Peter Pan (Polka Theatre), Kill Johnny Glendenning (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh), The James Plays (National Theatre Scotland, Edinburgh International Festival/National Theatre of Great Britain), Garw (Theatr Bara Caws), Bakersfield Mist (Sonia Friedman Productions), Y Negesydd (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru), MOJO (Sonia Friedman Productions), Aristocrats (Theatr Clwyd) Bracken Moor (Shared Experience/The Tricycle Theatre), Salt, Root and Roe (Theatr Clwyd), Paper Dolls and Red Velvet (The Tricycle Theatre) and Dunsinane (National Theatre Scotland and RSC).
Opera credits include Lucia Di Lammermoor (Royal Opera House), Wildman of the West Indies and Jason (English Touring Opera).
Film credits include Heretiks (The Gateway Movie Ltd), Genesis (WSG Film Genesis Ltd), Arthur and Merlin (Myrrdin Ltd), Howl (Silver Bullet Films), The Seasoning House (Sterling Pictures) City Slacker (Tornado Films) Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (Yellow knife) Deviation (Silver Leaf pictures) iLL Manors (Microwave).
Sarah is a movement director, choreographer and performer.
Movement direction includes Great Expectations directed by Lucy Bailey, Waiting for Godot with Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, Julius Caeser by RSC and Purcell’s Fairy Queen opera at Temple. Sarah is also currently coaching on two Warner Bros films directed David Yates: Tarzan and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. As a choreographer Sarah has her own company and has been an associate artist at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and a Place Prize semi finalist. As a performer she has worked for the past 12 years with immersive theatre specialists Punchdrunk. This is Sarah’s third production in collaboration with Amy Hodge: she worked on 7-75 an intergenerational piece commissioned by The Place and Our Big Land with the Romany Theatre Company.
