GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES
By Rajiv Joseph
Director Justin Audibert
Design Lily Arnold
Lighting Andy Purves
Music and Sound Isobel Waller-Bridge
Movement Joe Wild
Casting Charlotte Sutton
Cast Mariah Gale, Felix Scott
You’ve got like super powers.
Even tonight. When we kissed, you kissed my missing tooth.
The gap. And it stopped hurting.
When Kayleen and Doug meet in the nurse’s office of their elementary school aged 8, she can’t stop being sick and he’s pedalled his bike off the roof. Over the course of the next 30 years, an intensely unusual love story develops that is as delicate a
?nd raw as its protagonists. Passionate, infuriating, heartwarming and heartbreaking; their own destructiveness continues to force them apart, only to be drawn together again. And again.
The European Premiere of Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph’s hilarious and dark tale, racing back and forth in time through the lives of two unique characters and the twisted relationship that defines them. GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES is a fiercely honest story of modern America, and the first time that his exceptional new talent has been presented in the UK.
This production is supported by the National Theatre Studio through the Levehulme Bursary, awarded to one emerging director of outstanding promise.
Gruesome Playground Injuries
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22 January – 16 February 2013
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GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES
By Rajiv Joseph
Director Justin Audibert
Design Lily Arnold
Lighting Andy Purves
Music and Sound Isobel Waller-Bridge
Movement Joe Wild
Casting Charlotte Sutton
Cast Mariah Gale, Felix Scott
You’ve got like super powers.
Even tonight. When we kissed, you kissed my missing tooth.
The gap. And it stopped hurting.
When Kayleen and Doug meet in the nurse’s office of their elementary school aged 8, she can’t stop being sick and he’s pedalled his bike off the roof. Over the course of the next 30 years, an intensely unusual love story develops that is as delicate a
?nd raw as its protagonists. Passionate, infuriating, heartwarming and heartbreaking; their own destructiveness continues to force them apart, only to be drawn together again. And again.
The European Premiere of Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph’s hilarious and dark tale, racing back and forth in time through the lives of two unique characters and the twisted relationship that defines them. GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES is a fiercely honest story of modern America, and the first time that his exceptional new talent has been presented in the UK.
This production is supported by the National Theatre Studio through the Levehulme Bursary, awarded to one emerging director of outstanding promise.