Up In Arms Stages World Premiere of Annie Jenkins' IN LIPSTICK
Up In Arms, in association with Pleasance and Ellie Keel, today announce the world première of Annie Jenkins' In Lipstick - a new play about the power and powerlessness of youth. The production, directed by Alice Hamilton, opens at Pleasance, Islington on 11 January, with previews from 9 January, and runs until 26 January.
Things don't change no matter how much you want them to. You try, you run away, you make things new but they're not. Same old shit covered in lipstick.
Maud, a woman on the run from her damaged past; and Cynthia, a woman hibernating from the wilderness of the modern world. Cynthia loves Maud, and Maud loves Cynthia but now she's beginning to suffocate. After an encounter with Dennis, a security guard at her office, she wonders if she has finally glimpsed an escape.
While Cynthia hides among YouTube videos of Shirley Bassey, a dressing up box and the McDonald's saver menu, Maud is preparing for the greatest performance of her life. It is only a matter of time before reality shatter their cocoon of lipstick and fairy tales.
This is an observational play about the power and powerlessness of youth within the fractured life of the modern city. It combines sex, lies, damage and the stretch of our dreams.
Annie Jenkins is a playwright who was shortlisted for The Old Vic 12 in 2017. Her theatre credits include A Tinder Trilogy (Hen and Chickens Theatre), Annie's 1000 Plays (Shakespeare in Shoreditch Festival), Lunch in My Car (Theatre N16), What about England? (Islington Mill), 50% Lesbian, 100% Scared (Park Theatre/ Bunker Theatre), Tinder471 (The Old Red Lion) and My Son is in the Kitchen Eating a Biscuit (HighTide Festival).
Alice Hamilton is a theatre director and dramaturg, and co-artistic director of Up In Arms, a touring theatre company. Her credits for the company include The March on Russia (Orange Tree Theatre), Visitors (Arcola Theatre/UK tour/Bush Theatre), German Skerries, Eventide and While We're Here (UK tour). Other theatre credits include Every Day I Make Greatness Happen (Hampstead Theatre), Echo's End (Salisbury Playhouse), Thirty Christmases (New Diorama Theatre) Anything That Flies (Jermyn Street Theatre), Orca and Orson's Shadow (Southwark Playhouse).
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