Maggots
By Farah Najib
27 Jan to 28 Feb
Studio
Details
Venue
Studio
Dates
27 Jan to 28 Feb
Running time
75 minutes
Age Guidance
14+
Price
£10.00 to £20.00
About
‘She scrubs desperately. Fervently. Furiously. The filth is in the walls and she can feel it in her bones and under her skin.’
As the stench in their building intensifies and infestations spread, a lonely group of tenants starts to ask questions.
But when the housing association barely lifts a finger in support and pest control “don’t deal with maggots”, the neighbours are left to grapple with their suspicions and fears alone – blurring the boundaries of their usually private lives in the process.
An exploration of the importance of human connection, Maggots questions what it really takes to build community. Written by Tony Craze Award winner Farah Najib and directed by Jess Barton, and produced by Jessie Anand Productions (This Might Not Be It).
Cast includes Sam Baker Jones, who plays Jack Grealish in the BBC’s upcoming Dear England, Safiyya Ingar who is known for appearing in two seasons of Netflix’s The Witcher, and Marcia Lecky, whose illustrious career includes the West End plays and feature films, alongside TV appearances in EastEnders, Ted Lasso and Doctor Who.
Jessie Anand Productions in association with Bush Theatre.
Cast & Creatives
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Sam Baker Jones
Sam most recently wrapped Dear England for the BBC, in the role of Jack Grealish, and Trigger Point for ITV. He also appeared in Swim, Aunty, Swim at the Belgrade…
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Sam Baker Jones
Sam Baker Jones most recently wrapped Dear England for the BBC, in the role of Jack Grealish, and Trigger Point for ITV. He can be seen in a leading role in Murder Before Evensong opposite Amit Shah. Sam’s other screen credits include The Walk In (opposite Stephen Graham) and Noughts + Crosses (BBC). Stage work includes Big Big Sky at the New Vic, Here at the Southwark Playhouse, and Swim, Aunty, Swim at the Belgrade Theatre.
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Marcia Lecky
Marcia’s theatre credits include Siobhan in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Paradise and Top Girls, all at the National Theatre, and The Scottsboro Boys in the…
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Marcia Lecky
Marcia Lecky trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Art in New York and at Guildford School of Acting.
Her theatre includes: Princess Shcherbatskaya in Anna Karenina (Chichester); Valeria in Coriolanus, Prudencia in The House of Bernarda Alba, Judge in Much Ado About Nothing, Siobhan in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Paradise, Top Girls (National); Dorothy in Cymbeline (RSC); The Scottsboro Boys (Garrick); The Launderette (Anima Theatre Company at VAULT).
Marcia’s television appearances include: Brian and Maggie, EastEnders, Emmerdale, Grace, Wreck, Ten Percent, Ted Lasso, Hollyoaks, Holby City, Not Going Out, Doctors, Doctor Who, Casualty, and Dawn. Films include: Breaking Infinity and Kingslayer. Marcia is also a voice-over artist and has worked on various BBC projects.
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Safiyya Ingar
Safiyya Ingar’s is known for appearing in Netflix’s The Witcher and playing original companion Valarie Lockwood in Big Finish’s Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles.
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Safiyya Ingar
Safiyya Ingar is an actor and VO artist from London. After graduating from their alma mater in 2017, they have nurtured their career and skills in theatre, TV, film, and voice acting.
Theatre includes: King Troll (New Diorama); Two Billion Beats (Orange Tree); The Box of Delights (Wilton’s Music Hall); Marvin’s Binoculars, The Canterville Ghost (Unicorn); Hobson’s Choice (Royal Exchange); Holes, LAVA (Nottingham Playhouse); Growth (Paines Plough/UK tour).
Screen credits include: Brides (BFI/Neon Films) for which they were nominated for 2 BIFA Awards; The Witcher – Series 3 & 4 (Netflix); and Layla (BFI/Film4).
Video games: Diablo IV (Blizzard), Valkyrie Elysium (Square Enix), Dustborn (Quantic Dream/Red Thread Games), Wuthering Waves (Kuro Games).
They are also known for their work as the original companion, Valarie Lockwood, in Big Finish’s award-winning audio series Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles.
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Farah Najib
Writer
Farah Najib
Writer
Farah Najib is an award-winning playwright and alumna of the Royal Court Writers’ Group and Soho Theatre Writers’ Lab. Her play Dirty Dogs won the 2020 Tony Craze Award from Soho Theatre and was longlisted for the 2022 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. She trained in Writing for Performance at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama.
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Jess Barton
Director
Jess Barton
Director
Jess Barton is a director and theatre maker based in East London. She specialises in new writing, primarily that which interrogates what it means to be human.
Credits include: Maggots, Don’t Forget My Face, AAAAA (co-director with David Brady), Feel More, At Last (co-director with David Brady), Like Your Hate Me (all Lion and Unicorn); Diversifications (Old Red Lion ); Refuge, Mnemonic (The Space); Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons (tour); The Last Five Years, Company (both Marlborough); RENT (Sallis Benney).
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Jessie Anand
Producer
Jessie Anand
Producer
Jessie Anand (Productions) is a theatre and opera producer who previously produced hit Bush Studio shows Tender and This Might Not Be It.
Other credits include: Untapped Award-winning show The Mosinee Project (Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe / New Diorama Theatre); Offie Award-winning productions The Bleeding Tree and Yellowfin (Southwark Playhouse); Bungalow (Theatre503), Orlando (VAULT Festival / Pleasance, Edinburgh Fringe / 59E59, New York), Pennyroyal (Finborough Theatre) and Cabildo (Arcola Theatre / Wilton’s Music Hall).
She works as an in-house producer at Jermyn Street Theatre and she is the company producer for Airlock Theatre, with whom she has produced shows at Soho Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe and on tour. She has also worked with and for companies including the National Theatre, Belarus Free Theatre, Wayward Productions, Kandinsky and The Big House. Jessie is supported by new producers’ charity Stage One.
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Caitlin Mawhinney
Set and Costume Designer
Caitlin Mawhinney
Set and Costume Designer
Caitlin Mawhinney is a set and costume designer whose work has seen stages and unconventional spaces across the country. Caitlin was the winner of the Evening Standard Future Theatre Fund in Visual Design and has continued to gain recognition with nominations for The Stage Debut Awards; the Arts Foundation Futures Award; The Naomi Wilkinson Award For Stage Design; and finalist for the JMK Awards.
Recent collaborations include National Theatre, Hull Truck Theatre, Leeds Playhouse, The Pleasance, Soho Theatre, Arcola Theatre, Theatre503, Chichester Festival Theatre, Northern Opera and Southbank Centre, alongside many others.
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Peter Small
Lighting Designer
Peter Small
Lighting Designer
Peter studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and now lights productions across theatre, dance and opera. He was nominated for two 2018 Off West End Best Lighting Awards for Black Mountain (Orange Tree Theatre) and A Girl In School Uniform (Walks into A Bar) (New Diorama Theatre), for which he was also a finalist for the 2018 Theatre and Tech Award for Creative Innovation in Lighting.
Other recent projects include lighting Square Go (Theatre 59E59, New York, Paines Plough’s Roundabout and UK tour), Angry Alan (Soho, Aspen Fringe) and Do Our Best (Edinburgh Fringe, Francesca Moody Productions), You Stupid Darkness! (Theatre Royal Plymouth, Southwark), Radio (Arcola), Orlando (VAULT Festival), Daughterhood, Dexter And Winter’s Detective Agency and On The Other Hand, We’re Happy (Paines Plough Roundabout) Paines Plough Roundabout Tour productions 2017-19, including the Offie Nominated Black Mountain; Ad Libido (VAULT Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, Soho and UK Tour), Old Fools (Southwark), Plastic (Old Red Lion, Mercury) and A Girl In School Uniform (Walks into a Bar) (New Diorama)
Lighting for Opera and Musicals include The Rape of Lucretia (Stratford Circus), All or Nothing (UK Tour, West End) Cinderella (Loughborough), Tom & Jerry (EventBox), The Venus Factor (Bridewell). He was associate and revival Lighting Designer on Kiss Me, Kate for Oper Graz. He has lit dance productions including Step Live! Festival (Royal Festival Hall, Sadler’s Wells).
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Duramaney Kamara
Composer and Sound Designer
Duramaney Kamara
Composer and Sound Designer
Duramaney Kamara is a multidisciplinary sound designer and composer. Under the pseudonym ‘D L K’, he is also a recording artist and producer who releases music under his indie label BE FREE 888 REPERTOIRE.
Theatre credits include: Going Out Out (HOME); Bangers (Arcola/Soho/Edinburgh Fringe); Wolves On Road, August in England, House of Ife, Project 2036 (Bush Theatre); Barcelona (West End); Grow Up, C3 Stories (Company Three); MANTELPEACE (Young Vic Taking Part); Swim, Aunty, Swim! (Belgrade, Coventry); Love Steps (Omnibus/Wrested Veil); Cinderella (Brixton House); Clyde’s (Donmar Warehouse); Sucker Punch (Queen’s, Hornchurch); Bootycandy (Gate); Anansi the Spider (Unicorn/Regent’s Park Open Air); Christmas in the Sunshine (Unicorn); Moreno, Roman Candle (Theatre503); Collection (Tara Arts); The Death of a Black Man, Hoes (Hampstead); The Dark (Fuel/Ovalhouse); Living Newspaper Edition 4 & 5, Dismantle This Room, My Mum’s a Twat, Instructions for Correct Assembly, katzenmusik (Royal Court).
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Fran Cattaneo
Casting Director
Fran Cattaneo
Casting Director
Fran Cattaneo is a casting director based in London, where she has assisted in the offices of Rory Okey, Dan Hubbard and Heather Basten for screen and, for stage, Harry Blumenau, Lotte Hines at the Donmar Warehouse and Stuart Burt.
Her credits for theatre include acting as Casting Director on FXFest Readings (Soho), Selina Thompson’s Twine (Yard), The Bleeding Tree directed by The Stage Debut Award-winning director Sophie Drake (Southwark) and The Great Privation: How to Flip Ten Cents into a Dollar (Theatre503), and consulting on This Might Not Be It and …blackbird hour (Bush).
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