"brilliant, sharp, poetic, passionate, full of searing insight into the politics of blame"
The Scotsman
Chalk Farm
An intensely urgent play about love, responsibility, and the culture of blame and retribution surrounding the 2011 English riots.
“A point marked in time when it all began to crack, when the game is over, when the surface is ripped open showing what the world really looks like. And we were there.”
Through a mother’s desire for safety and acceptance and a young boy’s need to be recognised, to be part of something, Chalk Farm offers an uncompromising and ultimately heartbreaking examination of a fractured society.
“a taut, explosive duologue… poetically, powerful”
The Times
“Chalk Farm sets the stage alight”
Broadway Baby
"incredibly accomplished"
Mark Ravenhill, BBC Review Show
"sharp, intelligent storytelling"
The List
"a deceptively simple play about a really complex issue, and it puts things very beautifully and very movingly"
Lyn Gardner, BBC Review Show
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"simmers with understated anger and boasts spot-on performances"
The Guardian
Credits
CAST
Thomas Dennis
Jamie
Julia Taudevin
Maggie
CREATIVE TEAM
Written by:
Kieran Hurley
AJ Taudevin
A ThickSkin production. Part of Made in Scotland 2013.