The Bush Theatre presents a Paines Plough, Hull Truck and Watford Palace Theatre production
‘I’m not asking you to win. I’m asking you to just: chuck your face at it, have a, have a fucking good go at it. And then we’ll. Yeah. We’ll see.’
Luke wants Danny, but Danny’s got a secret. Joe’s happy in goal but Geoff wants a headline gig. Viv just wants to beat the lesbians to the league title. Game on.
A hilarious and heart-warming story about football, friendship and finding your way from Tom Wells, winner of the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright 2012 for the smash hit comedy THE KITCHEN SINK (***** Telegraph) produced by the Bush.
Jumpers for Goalposts was originally co-commissioned by Paines Plough, Hull Truck and West Yorkshire Playhouse.
Charles has been a Freelance Lighting Designer since 1987, working in theatre, dance and opera.
His recent designs include: ACCRINGTON PALS and TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Royal Exchange, Manchester), THE BORROWERS (Northern Stage), THE RIVER and CHOIR BOY (Royal Court), LABYRINTH OF LOVE (Rambert Dance), MORNING (Traverse Edinburgh/Lyric Hammersmith), POSH (Royal Court at Duke of York’s), CARMEN (Vlaamse Opera), RUN FOR IT (Scottish Ballet/Cultural Olympiad), GUID SISTERS (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh), A KIND OF ALASKA/KRAPP’S LAST TAPE (Bristol Old Vic) and CRAVE/ILLUSIONS (ATC). Other designs include: CHICKEN SOUP WITH BARLEY, NOW OR LATER and THE UGLY ONE (Royal Court), THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE and THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE (Young Vic), A DOLL’S HOUSE, OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR and WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF (Northern Stage), THE HYPOCHONDRIAC and THE TEMPEST (Liverpool Everyman), THE ENGLISH GAME and ANGELS IN AMERICA PARTS 1 & 2 (Headlong), DUCHESS OF MALFI and HEDDA GABLER (West Yorkshire Playhouse)
James is the co-Artistic Director of Paines Plough. He was formerly co-founder and Artistic Director of nabokov for 10 years and Associate Director of the Bush Theatre.
James previously collaborated with The Angry Brigade playwright James Graham at the Bush on The Whisky Taster. Other credits for the Bush Theatre include Jumpers for Goalposts by Tom Wells, Psychogeography by Lucy Kirkwood, Artefacts by Mike Bartlett
For Paines Plough James has also directed An Intervention and Love, Love, Love by Mike Bartlett , Hopelessly Devoted and Wasted by Kate Tempest, The Sound of Heavy Rain by Penelope Skinner, You Cannot Go Forward From Where You Are Right Now by David Watson, Tiny Volcanoes by Laurence Wilson and Fly Me to the Moon by Marie Jones.
Further directing credits include Translations (Sheffield Theatres / ETT / The Rose, Kingston) A Nobody (66 Books) by Laura Dockrill, St Petersburg by Declan Feenan, Kitchen, Bedtime for Bastards and Nikolina by Van Badham, Old Street by Patrick Marber and When Cheryl was Brassic by Leo Richardson (nabokov), The List by David Eldridge (Arcola).
James has also directed comedians and poets including Isy Suttie, Simon Brodkin (Lee Nelson), Luke Wright, Martin Figura and Aisle16.
He trained as assistant and associate director to Josie Rourke, as staff director to Howard Davies at The National Theatre, and on the National Theatre Studio Director’s Course.
Lucy has previously designed Wrecks, Broken Space Festival, 2,000 Feet Away, Tinderbox and The dYsFUnCKshOnalZ for the Bush Theatre (with whom she is a former Associate Artist).
Recent theatre credits include Twelfth Night for the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre; Dreams of Violence (Out of Joint); Shades for the Royal Court’s Young Writers Festival; Macbeth (Edinburgh Lyceum/Nottingham Playhouse); Nina and Gas Station Angel (repertoire, LAMDA); Timing (Kings Head) and When Romeo Met Juliet (BBC)
She designed Artefacts (Nabakov Theatre Company / Bush Theatre) and Some Kind of Bliss (Trafalgar Studios), both of which transferred to the 2008 ‘Brits off Broadway Festival’ in New York and other theatre credits include Be My Baby (New Vic Theatre); Rope (Watermill Theatre); Closer (Theatre Royal Northampton); The Long and the Short and The Tall (Sheffield Lyceum); The Prayer Room (Birmingham Rep/Edinburgh Festival); Ship of Fools (set, Theatre 503); The Tempest (set, Box Clever National Tour); The Unthinkable (Sheffield Crucible Studio); Almost Blue (Riverside Studios, winner of Oxford Samuel Beckett Trust Award); Dr Faustus (The Place); Touch Wood (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Breaker Morant (Edinburgh Festival); Richard III (Cambridge Arts); Flight Without End, Lysistrata, Othello (LAMDA); Generation (Gate Theatre) and Season of Migration to the North (RSC New Writing Season).
Lucy graduated from Motley Theatre Design School in 2003, having also gained a BA in Fine Art from the University of Newcastle.
Tom Wells lives in Hull. His previous plays at the Bush Theatre include: The Kitchen Sink (which won the Critics Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright and the George Devine Award) and Jumpers For Goalposts (Paines Plough / Hull Truck / Watford Palace).
Other plays include: Me, As A Penguin (West Yorkshire Playhouse / Arcola Theatre); Cosmic (Script Club); Folk (Birmingham Rep / Hull Truck / Watford Palace); and Broken Biscuits (Live Theatre / Paines Plough).
Other credits include: Ben & Lump (Channel 4); Jonesy (BBC Radio 4); and pantos for Middle Child, Hull and the Lyric, Hammersmith.
He is currently under commission to the Royal Court and the National Theatre, and is an Associate Artist of Middle Child.
Philip plays Luke
Training: Birmingham School of Acting.
Theatre includes: THE HISTORY BOYS (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick), EXECUTION OF JUSTICE by Emily Mann (Southwark Playhouse), PUNK ROCK by Simon Stephens (Kaleidoscope).
Film includes: Eliminate: Archie Cookson (Agent Pictures).
Vivienne plays Viv.
Training: LAMDA
Theatre includes: BLOOD CARMEN (Moving Theatre and Théâtre Éphéméride), THE LAST CURIOUSITY (Young Vic workshop), THE NATURE OF THINGS (The Place), LONG TOOTH by Trudi Jackson/Vivienne Gibbs (Gilded Balloon), SPLENDOUR by Abi Morgan (Cobden Club), THIS PROPERTY IS CONDEMNED, THE LADY OF LARKSPUR LOTION (Occam's Razor), ELEPHANT MAN (Union Theatre, Sincera Brazil tour), MUD, LA ENTREVISTA (Arcola), MARTINE MCCUTCHEON NEEDS ME (Soho Theatre Studio).
TV includes: Comedy Lab (Channel 4).
Film includes: Act of God (Giant Films), Atonement (Working Title), Rabbit Fever (Rabbit Reproductions).
Andy plays Geoff.
Training: Birmingham School of Acting.
Theatre includes: THE KITCHEN SINK by Tom Wells (Bush Theatre), HELLO/GOODBYE by Peter Souter (Hampstead Theatre), LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST (The Lamb Players), SENSE by Anja Hilling (Made by Brick), ANNA KARENINA (Arcola Theatre), ROMEO AND JULIET (Cheltenham Everyman).
Film includes: Here and Now (Small But Tall Films Ltd).
Television includes: Holby City (BBC), Wizards vs Aliens (BBC), New Tricks (Wall To Wall Ltd), Casualty (BBC).
Matt plays Joe
Theatre includes: YPS KING LEAR (RSC), ROMEO AND JULIET and THE GAME by Harold Brighouse (Northern Broadsides), UP ON ROOF by Richard Bean (Hull Truck Theatre), THE MAGIC PAINTBRUSH (West Yorkshire Playhouse), STEVE AND THEN IT ENDED by Adam Usden (Theatre503), ME & MY FRIEND by Gillian Plowman (King’s Head, Islington), NIGHT CELLAR (BAC), MACBETH (National Youth Theatre).
Television includes: Emmerdale, Distant Shores, Shakespeare Stories: Much Ado About Nothing and The Taming of the Shrew, 55 Degrees North, FC Dave, Cocaine Nation, Rum, Sodomy and the Lash, The Bill: Beech is Back, Forest People, Kid’s Court.
Film includes: Goal 2: Living the Dream, Peter, How to Film Your Neighbour, The Notebooks of Cornelius Crow, Mystery Play.
Radio includes: Guardian Angel, Stories for Another Day, Abandoned Projects, The Land of Green Ginger, King of the Road (all BBC Radio 4), Writing the City (BBC Radio 3).
Jamie plays Danny
Training: Arts Ed School Of Acting
Theatre includes: THE KITCHEN SINK by Tom Wells (Hull Truck Theatre), 66 BOOKS (Bush Theatre), PUSHING UP POPPIES by Kieran Lynn (Theatre 503), BLANDED by Frazer Flintham (Bush Theatre), 2ND MAY 1997 by Jack Thorne (Bush Theatre/Royal Exchange Manchester), THE ENGLISH GAME by Richard Bean (Headlong), THE CONSERVATORY by Mark Dooley (Old Red Lion Theatre).
Film includes: Territory (50 West Productions)
TV includes: The Promise (Channel 4/Daybreak Pictures), A Touch Of Frost (ITV), Doctors (BBC), The Bill (ITV)
Short Film includes: Own Worst Enemy (Grosvenor Television), The Coward (Curzon, Soho).
