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Market Boy
a new play by David Eldridge
Part of the Travelex £10 Season, with two thirds of the seats at £10 for every performance.'Bold, brash and fabulous like an Essex Cinderella. It's the most fun I've had at the theatre in ages.'
The Times
'This is one of the most physically fluid productions ever to be put on at the National.'
Observer
There's an art to selling stilettos and you'd better grasp it. Learn a good wind-up, learn the pull of cash, learn drugs, learn sex, and run wild with the market monkeys. Stay sharp in the ruthless world of the mouthy Essex traders. Romford Market, 1985. This boy has everything to learn.
Read the following articles:
David Eldridge and Rufus Norris in the Guardian.
A spectacular, savage, gorgeous yarn which brings a market jungle to the vast Olivier stage; a tale about the time Mrs Thatcher said we should embrace the marketplace; a story about losing your innocence. And your cherry.
Give them what they want. And they'll give you what you want. We were put on this earth to chase women, and women were put here to buy shoes. Ginger, brunette, peroxide, they're all here. But this is what you're after, this son, this.From 27 May
World Premiere
Please note that strobe lighting is used in this production.
Cast credits:
Don : Paul Anderson
Flypitcher/Trader : Micah Balfour
Flypitcher/Trader : Ralph Birtwell
Daughter / Sticky Nicky : Jaimi Barbakoff
Thatcher : Nicola Blackwell
Flypitcher/Trader : Michael Camp
Jason : Jim Creighton
Meat Man : Jonathan Cullen
Mouse : Callum Dixon
Leather Boy : Branwell Donaghey
Leather Man : Andrew Frame
Woman with Huge Feet / Fat Annie : Jan Goodman
Spanish Girl/Market Brass : Mercedes Grower
Romford Labour Candidate : Jacob Krichefski
Gypsy/Market Sweep : Georgina Lamb
Steve the Nutter & Nut-Nut : John Marquez
The Trader : Gary McDonald
The Toby : Paul Moriarty
Transvestite / Flypitcher : Owen Oakeshott
Mum : Claire Rushbrook
Mother / Kate Arms : Ruth Sheen
Fish Woman : Sophie Stanton
Flypitcher/Trader : David Sternberg
Flypitcher/Trader : Michael Taibi
Dad : Stephen Ventura
Cupid / New Boy : Craig Vye
The Most Beautiful Woman in Romford : Jemma Walker
Snooks : Freddy White
Girl : Jade Williams
Boy : Danny Worters
Production credits:
Director: Rufus Norris
Set Designer: Katrina Lindsay
Costume Designer: Harriet Barsby
Lighting Designer: Hugh Vanstone
Choreography: Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett for Frantic Assembly
Sound Designer: Paul Arditti
photo (Danny Worters) by Stephen Cummiskey
Market Boy finished on: 24 August 2006
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