A summer of love. A fight. A car chase. A siege. When Katie’s boyfriend is attacked on the streets of Luton, she is propelled outside her borders to the frontier of council estates and concrete jungles. Amidst the sweltering heat, the baying for blood and longing for love, Katie is forced to decide her future.
A vital tale for our times by multi-award winning playwright Jack Thorne, Bunny is an interrogation into the mind of one young girl struggling to find her place within a modern world lacking intimacy and connection. This compelling and thought-provoking show explores a powerful youth voice in Britain.
Bunny is a play with a young white woman at its centre - one who loses her underwear in a car on the outskirts of an estate to a bloke she knows nothing about. She doesn’t understand that she needs to escape, that she’s been sucked in. Now, more than ever, theatre needs to explore stories where women are made to feel powerless, inadequate and
submissive. Now, more than ever, theatre needs to explore stories that help us to identify with the state of our nation.
Catherine Lamb, Lucy Curtis and Sophia Nicholson are a trio of up-and-coming female theatre makers seeking to present an unflinching, honest, intimate, vibrant and relatable story of our times. It is a compelling insight into what it is to be growing up today and the inevitable struggles, pressures and pitfalls of vulnerable young people.
Lucy Curtis comments: Bunny is about the state of our nation now - we are faced with youth unemployment, problematic political campaigns, factory closures and racial tensions in our communities. We are seeing the re-emergence of 20th century mentalities that, it turns out, were never completely left behind. They have stayed with us, and festered, and have now erupted across Britain, America and the rest of world. We see this through the eyes of Katie: a white, middle-class eighteen year old who wants to be anything but white, middle-class and eighteen. Bunny is about dialogue and about the understanding that can be reached between different people - through empathy.
Just three stops from Leicester Square, The White Bear Theatre now boasts enhanced technical facilities and playing space with the added benefit of a stylish bar and restaurant offering pre and post show food.
Tuesday 7th – Saturday 25th March 2017 Tuesday – Saturday 7pm
Sunday matinees 4pm
60 minutes
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White Bear Theatre, 138 Kennington Park Road, London SE11 4DJ http://whitebeartheatre.co.uk/
The nearest underground stations are Kennington – which is only 2 minutes away (on the Northern line), Oval (on the Northern line) and Vauxhall (on the Victoria line). The nearest rail station is Victoria.
Tickets are available priced £12 (£10) from The White Bear box office and http://whitebeartheatre.co.uk/, 0333 666 3366
Catherine Lamb
Catherine is an actress and first time producer. Recent credits include; The National Joke (The Stephen Joseph Theatre), The Taming of the Shrew (Arts Theatre West End), Somewhere in England (Theatre Clwyd), The Crown (Netflix), Cucumber (Channel 4). She started her career with The National Youth Theatre, during secondary school she began taking shows to the Edinburgh Festival including a re-imagined version of Romeo and Juliet called L.O.V.E which received five star reviews at The Pleasance. Catherine then went on to gain a place on the Three Year BA Acting Course at Italia Conti, she received a First in her Degree and represented the school at The Wanamaker Festival 2013 at Shakespeare’s Globe and in The Carlton Hobbs Competition. Since graduating three years ago she has worked in stage, screen and radio.
Lucy Curtis
Lucy is the Artistic Director of Changing Face whose work is currently supported by Black Theatre Live, Park Theatre and the Old Vic Lab. The company are currently co-producing a production for York Theatre Royal and the Arcola Theatre. Her directing credits include, Dare to Dream (Arcola); It Is So Ordered (Pleasance/Park Theatre); Where Will We Live? (Southwark Playhouse/Camden People's Theatre); Love on the Dole (The Space); The Divided Laing (Arcola); and Women's Stories of Ford Dagenham (Queen's Theatre Hornchurch and Essex Tour). Lucy is currently developing a play with Emmy-award winning playwright, Ron Hutchinson.
Sophia Nicholson
Sophia trained as an actress at the Italia Conti Academy and since then has forged herself a successful career in the voice industry. She is currently an agent at ‘The London Voice Boutique’ representing a wealth of talent across the board. Having started as an assistant at the agency Sophia was made junior agent after a matter of weeks. This is her first venture into producing.
