A Sheffield Theatres Production in association with the Bush Theatre
Lewis and Waldorf were inseparable at university. Ten years on and a lot has changed. In the middle of a drunken night out, they make a bet that will take their friendship to whole new level.
Adapted for the stage by award-winning writer DC Moore and directed by Richard Wilson, this is the world première of Straight, a razor-sharp new comedy.
You’ll never look at your best friend in the same way again…
Based on the motion picture Humpday, written & directed by Lynn Shelton. Contains adult content and scenes of a sexual nature.
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DC Moore’s plays include Alaska (Royal Court), The Empire (Royal Court and Drum Theatre, Plymouth, winner of the TMA Award for Best Touring Production), Honest (Royal & Derngate, Northampton, Edinburgh Festival & Soho Theatre), Town (Royal & Derngate, Northampton) and The Swan (as part of Double Feature – National Theatre, Paintframe). In 2008 he won the inaugural Tom Erhardt Award for promising new playwrights and was the 2011 Pearson Playwright in Residence at the Royal Court Theatre. He adapted The Empire for Radio 3’s The Wire season and his television credits include Home for Channel 4/Touchpaper‘s 2011 Coming Up scheme.
Recent designs include; Good; A View from the Bridge; Powder Monkey; Mojo Mickybo (Royal Exchange Theatre), The Pride;That Face (Crucible Studio), The Seven Year Itch (Salisbury Playhouse), Macbeth; The Demolition Man (Bolton Octagon), Accolade (Finborough Theatre), The Flint Street Nativity; The Elves And The Shoemaker (Hull Truck), The Wages of Thin (Old Red Lion) (Off West End.Com Nomination for Best Set), Meat (Theatre503); Estate Walls (Oval House). In 2005 he was a winner of the Linbury Prize for Stage Design for Not The End Of The World at Bristol Old Vic. In 2009 his installation Smash Here was chosen by Time Out to be part of the Deloitte Ignite festival at the Royal Opera House. Other designs include: The Eleventh Capital; Gone Too Far! (Royal Court Upstairs), A Little Neck (Goat & Monkey at Hampton Court Palace), The Musician (OMAC, Belfast), Lough/Rain (Theatre Royal, York), So Close to Home (Arcola Theatre & Brighton Festival), Spies (Theatre Alibi, Oxford Playhouse & Tour), The Pleasure Principle (Tristan Bates), Romeo & Juliet (BAC), Big Sale (Protein Dance/The Place & UK Tour), Fair (Trafalgar Studio 2), Silverland; 15 Minutes (Arcola Theatre), Widows; The Fool (Vanbrugh Theatre, RADA).
Lighting Designer
Productions for Sheffield Theatres include The Pride and That Face.
Recent theatre credits include Blue Sky (Pentabus); Moon on A Rainbow Shawl (National); The Norman Conquests (Liverpool); Medea, Romeo and Juliet (Headlong); Blue Heart Afternoon, Lay Down Your Cross (Hampstead); What the Butler Saw, Betrayal, Speaking in Tongues, Fat Pig (West End); Some Like it Hip Hop (ZooNation); Charged (Soho); Miss Julie, Beautiful Thing, Private Lives, The Glass Menagerie, A Raisin in the Sun (Royal Exchange); Man In The Middle (503); The Deep Blue Sea / Nijinsky (Chichester); Fatherland (Gate); The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes (RSC); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Salisbury); Haunted (Royal Exchange/New York); Romeo and Juliet, The Importance of Being Ernest (Edinburgh Lyceum). Productions for Out Of Joint include Our Country’s Good, Bang Bang Bang, Dreams of Violence, Our Lady of Sligo, The Permanent Way and King of Hearts. Extensive work with The Royal Court includes My Name is Rachel Corrie, Rhinoceros, The Arsonists and My Child.
Michael is a composer, lyricist and musical director who has recently joined the team at the Bush as its first ever resident composer.
After training at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts his writing credits include the four times nominated and double MTM award winning musical ED at Trafalgar Studios and the Edinburgh Fringe, as well as HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE, BEYOND, THE GRIMM OF STOTTESDEN HALL, HOLES and RIGGED. He is also resident composer and orchestrator for the West End NOTES FROM NEW YORK concert series with whom he has worked on a variety of concerts and recordings including RUTHIE HENSHALL IN CONCERT, three instalments of the festive show CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK for which he wrote the title song, as well as the album recording of the same name. Winner of the NOTES FOR THE STAGE PRIZE for songwriting, Michael hosted a star-studded evening of his work, MICHAEL BRUCE: A LITTLE LESS ORDINARY at London's Apollo Theatre last November. His debut theatrical album comes out this year.
Associate Director of Sheffield Theatres, Richard Wilson, directs Straight, marking his return to the Bush since appearing in Whipping It Up in 2006. For Sheffield Theatres, his work includes Lungs (as part of The Roundabout Season by Paines Plough), That Face and The Pride. A multi award-winning actor, his many other directing credits include extensive work for the Royal Court, including Rainbow Kiss, The Woman Before, Under the Whaleback, A Day in the Dull Armour/Grafitti, Where Do We Live, Nightingale and Chase, I Just Stopped By to See the Man and Mr Kolpert. His other credits include East Coast Chicken Supper (Traverse Theatre), Primo (National Theatre/South Africa/Hampstead and Broadway), Playing the Victim (Sheffield Theatres/Traverse/Royal Court/tour), as well as work for the West End, Chichester, Manchester Royal Exchange, Lyric Hammersmith.
Philip McGinley plays Waldorf. He previously appeared in Hobson’s Choice at Sheffield Theatres. His other theatre work includes Herding Cats (Theatre Royal Bath and Hampstead Theatre), Canary (Liverpool Everyman and Hampstead Theatre), More Light (Arcola Theatre), The Changeling (Cheek by Jowl) and Great Expectations (RSC). For television, his credits include Game of Thrones, The Gemma Factor, Coronation Street, Cold Blood, Blue Murder and Falling; and for film, Prometheus, Frank and Standing Room Only.
Henry Pettigrew plays Lewis. His theatre work includes The Master and the Margarita (Complicite), Anna Christie (Donmar Warehouse), Hamlet (Donmar West End), Beautiful Burnout (Frantic Assembly), Black Watch (National Theatre of Scotland) and The Bevellers (Glasgow Citizens’ Theatre). For television, The Belsen Redemption; and for film, Next of Kin.
Jenny Rainsford plays Steph. Her theatre work includes The Importance of Being Earnest (Rose Theatre, Kingston). For television, her credits include Da Vinci’s Demons; and for film, About Time and Prometheus.
Jessica Ransom plays Morgan. Her theatre credits include POSH (Royal Court and Duke of York’s Theatre) and Unsung Heroes (Edinburgh Festival). For television, Horrible Histories, Doc Martin and The Armstrong and Miller Show.
