Cast Announced for New Play HOLE by Ellie Kendrick

Ronke Adekoluejo, Ebony Bones, Alison Halstead, Rubyyy Jones, Cassie Layton and Eva Magyar have been cast in the world premiere of Hole, written by Ellie Kendrick and directed by Helen Goalen and Abbi Greenland from RashDash.

With design by Cécile Trémolières,lighting design by Katharine Williams, composition by Ebony Bones and sound design by Emily Legg.

Hole will be performed in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs Wednesday 28 November 2018 - Saturday 12 January 2019. Press performances at 7pm Tuesday 4 December 2018 and 7.45pm Wednesday 5 December 2018 with reviews embargoed until 11.59pm Wednesday 5 December 2018.

"We're harpies.
We're a three headed bitch.
We've been guarding the gates.

Now we're throwing them open."

A hole in the ground. Three women are forcing their way out.

They're singing. They're moving. They're taking up space. And they refuse to apologise.

"This is a take over. We're taking over.
You came here to look.
We're giving you something to watch."

Using word, music and movement in equal parts, Ellie Kendrick's debut play asks how power is created and is directed by Helen Goalen and Abbi Greenland from the award-winning company RASHDASH.

Alongside Hole there will be Take Up Space Cabaret - a late night event in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs 9.30pm Saturday 15 December 2018.

"We will take up more and more and more space. The more you try to stop us, the more space we will take up." Hole, Ellie Kendrick.

Celebrate and revel in a night of accomplished and emerging feminist, queer & crip performance artists. Acts include:

Katharine Araniello in a response to the mundane, social awkwardness and the negative representation of disability; Marisa Carnesky, performing an excerpt from her critically-acclaimed show Dr Carnesky's Incredible Bleeding Woman; cabaret artist Mzz Kimberley; Doris La Trine and her golden toilet get Flushed; Crip Punk Performance company Not Your Circus Dog! with Not F**kin' Sorry; and the 'Notorious V.A.G.' and comic goddess Mysti Vine. Ms Sam Adams is Mistress of Ceremonies.

Tickets are £15 and £10 for Young Court Friends.
Curated Royal Court Theatre Head of Participation Vishni Velada-Billson and Liselle Terret, Co-Programme Leader for University of East London's BA (Hons) Drama, Applied Theatre & Performance.

Hole is part of the Royal Court's Jerwood New Playwrights programme, supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation.

Photo: Ronke Adekoluejo, Ebony Bones, Alison Halstead, Rubyyy Jones, Cassie Layton, and Eva Magyar