BACON
Written by Sophie Swithinbank, directed by Matthew Iliffe, produced by Hannah Farley Hills of HFH Productions
Following a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the multi-award winning play comes to New York.
Bacon is an unflinching and unexpectedly humorous look at masculinity, sexuality and power, through the dizzying lens of youth.
Winner of the Tony Craze Award and three Off-West End Awards in London for Best Director and Best Performance in a Play.
“'Fascinating, beautifully written... Both actors deliver excellent, finely-tuned performances. They’re in tears by the end of the show—and so will you” - Playbill
“Utterly compelling… beautiful and devastating to watch” - The Stage
"You will laugh, you will cry and you will be breathless when you leave" - Everything Theatre
Bacon contains depictions of physical and sexual violence, references to self-harm and abuse, haze and strobe lighting.
Recommended for ages 16+
COREY MONTAGUE-SHOLAY as Mark
Trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Theatre includes Dismissed (Soho Theatre); Wind in the Wilton's (Wilton's Music Hall); The Prince (Southwark Playhouse); Bacon (Finborough); Wendy & Peter Pan (Leeds Playhouse); She Stoops to Conquer (Guildford Shakespeare Company); The Whip and King John (Royal Shakespeare Company); This Island’s Mine (King’s Head Theatre); Henry V (Shakespeare at The Tobacco Factory); The Enchanted (The Bunker Theatre); Normal (Rift Theatre at Styx); The Hotel Cerise (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Little Revolution and ICU (Almeida Theatre) and Carpe Diem (National Theatre).
Short film includes Kite Strings; Angry Face; Callum; Our Night and Home.
TV includes Casualty.
Awards include Best Performance in a Play at the Off West End Theatre Awards for Bacon at the Finborough.
WILLIAM ROBINSON as Darren
Trained at LAMDA.
Theatre includes Julius Caesar (Royal Shakespeare Company); Britannicus (Lyric Hammersmith); Bacon (Finborough); Target Man (King’s Head Theatre); Romeo & Juliet (National Tour). Theatre whilst training includes Three Days in the Country, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Country Music and In Arabia We’d All Be Kings. Short film includes Queens and Femme.
Film includes God’s Spy and The Silence and The Noise Television includes Masters of the Air and Cuffs.
Awards include Second Prize at the Ian Charleson Awards for Britannicus at the Lyric and Best Performance in a Play at the Off West End Theatre Awards for Bacon at the Finborough.
SOPHIE SWITHINBANK
Sophie is a multi-award-winning playwright and screenwriter, based in London.
She is the 2023 winner of the Peggy Ramsay/Film4 Award. Sophie’s play Bacon
(Tony Craze Award Winner 2018) ran at Finborough Theatre in 2022, to critical
acclaim, winning three Off West End Awards. Bacon will tour the UK and Australia
in 2023–24. Sophie is currently on attachment at the National Theatre, developing
a new play.
For Theatre: Even in Arcadia (longlisted for Verity Bargate Award 2020); Circle
Game (Southwark Theatre, shortlisted for Phil Fox Award 2020); Where There Is
Smoke (National Theatre Learning); Come Inside (Bush Theatre) and The
Superhero (Lyric Hammersmith).
For TV: BACON (developed with NBC Universal); L/OVER (MTV Finland).
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@sswithinbank92 (Twitter)
MATTHEW ILIFFE
Theatre as director includes: Breeding (King’s Head Theatre); Bacon (Finborough Theatre, Riverside Studios, Summerhall Edinburgh and Bristol Old Vic); Four Play (Above The Stag); The Niceties (Finborough Theatre); Maggie May (Finborough Theatre) and The Burnt Part Boys (Park Theatre).
As assistant director: Assassins (Chichester Festival Theatre); BLACK SUPERHERO (Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court), Brass (National Youth Music Theatre/Hackney Empire), Musik (Leicester Square Theatre).
Training/Education: Theatre & Performance Studies BA (Hons), First Class, University of Bristol, StoneCrabs Young Directors Programme and the National Theatre’s Directors’ Course 2023
Awards include: Best Director of a Play at the Off West End Awards for Bacon at the Finborough.
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