New Play BE REET Comes to Higher Walton Community Centre and the Omnibus Theatre

A new play about growing up gay in the North of England in the early noughties to be workshopped in Higher Walton Community Centre, prior to a London showcase at the Omnibus Theatre in Clapham.

The show is written and directed by Whatsonstage Award Nominee, Joshua Miles.

Cast includes: Rhys Isaac-Jones, Petra Markham, Sally Messham, Matt Sutton and Thomas Pickles.

Tickets available here https://www.eventbrite.com/d/united-kingdom--london/be-reet/

Miles said "be reet is a Northern English phrase meaning "it'll be alright". When I was 13 it didn't feel like things were going to be alright. Partly autobiographical, be reet is about growing up gay in the North of England in the early noughties. It's about a quest for acceptance. Its first performances will take place in the village where I grew up and where the play is set and explores issues such as mental health, bullying and LGBT in schools. I will be returning to my old high school, Lostock Hall Academy, to deliver acting workshops and will be speaking to the whole school in a specially organized assembly. Also with this weeks news about LGBT lessons in primary schools, I think it's even more fitting to be sharing this story.

Joshua Miles' theatre credits include: Snow White (Perth Theatre), The 306: Dawn (Perth Theatre and National Theatre of Scotland), Primetime (Royal Court), Romeo & Juliet (Sheffield Crucible), Hansel & Gretel (Dukes, Lancaster), The History Boys (Sheffield Crucible), Stink Foot (The Yard), The Way of the World (Chichester Festival Theatre) and Bully Boy (Nuffield, Southamton, Royal & Derngate, Northampton and St James Theatre, London where he won a nomination for Best Newcomer at the Whatsonstage Awards 2013). Television credits include: Vicious opposite Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi, Holby City, Doctors, Jigsaw, The Royal and Waterloo Road. Miles was the recipient of the Assistant Director position at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2017. Credits include Forty Years On by Alan Bennett, The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien and Herons by Simon Stephens. Miles recently directed a group of students from a pupil referral unit in Romeo & Juliet at the Apex Theatre in Bury St Edmunds.

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