Dan Pick's First Full-Length Play JELLY BEANS to Open This May at Theatre503

I was the most beautiful child.
Everyone always told me how much potential I had.

From the director of Theatre503's recently acclaimed BU21 comes JELLY BEANS. Dan Pick's first full-length play is a brutally honest, hilarious and pitch-black confessional about what happens when every axiom of your life turns out to be a lie.

The production will play Theatre503, The Latchmere, 503 Battersea Park Road, London SW11 3BW from Tuesday 10th to Saturday 14th May 2016.

Dan Pick's fresh and exciting writing reveals first-hand the story of a momentous day in the life of a young man teetering on the brink of self-destruction. As his drab existence is shattered by a violent attack and an escapist binge that sees him running from painful memories and present dangers, can a self-proclaimed hero save himself from oblivion?

JELLY BEANS considers what happens the moment a young man with a toxic combination of fear, loathing and delusions of grandeur is presented with a very real image of himself in the future, of what he's doomed to become.

Writer Dan Pick comments, We're a generation raised on Disney, riddled with debt, anxiety and depression. We wished on stars as children but the happy endings we were promised seem more distant now than the farthest reaches of our universe. We live behind laptop screens, isolated by the very devices designed to connect us, fed to bursting on a diet rich in reality TV and pornography. It often feels as though we're all facing our own individual crisis of purpose, and what happens when you realise the happily-ever-after might not be yours?

This one-off limited run is from the creative team and production company behind BU21 and award-nominated Cans.

Stuart Slade comments, "Dan is clearly one of the most gifted directors of his generation, and when he sent me his first play, it became annoyingly apparent that he is, potentially, also one of the most gifted writers as well. JELLY BEANS has a searing confessional honesty to it, a muscular brutality, but also a totally unexpected delicacy and tenderness. In the hands of the astonishing Adam Harley it's a play that's sometimes difficult to watch, but always impossible to ignore."

IF YOU GO:

JELLY BEANS

Tuesday 10th - Saturday 14th May 2016
Tuesday to Saturday, 7.45pm
Running time: 1 hour

At Theatre503, The Latchmere, 503 Battersea Park Road, London SW11 3BW

Theatre503 is located on above the Latchmere Pub on the corner of Latchmere Road and Battersea Park Road. The nearest underground stations are Sloane Square (on the Bakerloo and Northern lines then bus 319), South Kensington (on the Bakerloo, Northern, Circle and District lines) then bus 49 or 345, and Vauxhall (on the Northern and Piccadilly lines) then bus 34. The nearest rail station is Clapham Junction.

Tickets are available priced £12 (£10 concessions) Available from Theatre503 Box Office and theatre503.com, 020 7978 7040.

Ages 18+

Dan Pick is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Kuleshov. Theatre as Director includes: BU21 (Stuart Slade, Theatre503); Bulldog (Jenny Knotts, Pleasance Islington); PLAY#10 (Sam H. Freeman) and PLAY#16 (Dan Pick, Vault Festival - Winner: People's Choice Award); JELLY BEANS (Dan Pick, Peckham Pelican); Prom (Oliver Emanuel, Peckham Pelican); Cans (Stuart Slade, Theatre503); Deep Roots (Stuart Slade, Theatre503); Pain Is Weakness Leaving The Body (Stuart Slade, Vibrant/Finborough); Of Mice and Len (Stuart Slade, Theatre503);

CO (Cordelia Lynn, Invertigo/Hightide); Amsterdamaged (Stuart Slade, Theatre503); Macbeth (Bloomsbury Theatre); God: A Comedy by Woody Allen (Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh). Theatre as Assistant/Associate Director includes: Facts (Arthur Milner, Finborough); Almost Here (Pamela Carter, Finborough); Everyday Maps For Everyday Use (Tom Morton-Smith, Finborough); Khadija Is 18 (Shamser Sinha, Finborough); Hindle Wakes (Stanley Houghton, Finborough). Dan trained on the Birkbeck MFA Theatre Directing course and worked previously as the Filmmaker at the National Theatre.