★★★★ – The Times, The Stage, Evening Standard, WhatsOnStage, Sunday Times
“Samuel Bailey’s knockout professional debut rings with fresh truth” – The New York Times
“Astonishingly brilliant…one of the best debut plays I have ever seen” – Saturday Review, BBC
OLD FITZ
Press Release
Sydney
Locked up in a dangerous youth offenders’ institution, teenagers Riyad and Cain trade insults, barter for sweets, and dream of their imminent fatherhood. When they meet conspicuously quiet new inmate Jonjo at a parenting skills course, they speculate what kind of crime brought him inside. Over several months, guided by no-nonsense social worker Grace, the boys take a rare opportunity to explore their masculinity, relationships, and future ambitions. Will they take action to escape the system for good, or remain and stay shook?
The Australian premiere of this energetic, abrasive, and savagely funny drama is a hard-hitting but refreshingly honest tale of the voiceless in society. Winner of the UK Papatango New Writing Prize 2019, Bailey’s play asks if those raised with the odds stacked against them can ever truly break the cycle
Radio Four
Dates: 7 – 19 May 2024
Venue: Old Fitz Theatre, 129 Dowling Street Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
Tickets: https://www.oldfitztheatre.com.au/shook
Director & Producer: Emma Whitehead
Assistant Director: Atharv Kolhatkar
Assistant Producers: Jack Calver & Ryan Whitworth
Set & Costume Designer: Lochie Odgers
Lighting Designer: Priyanka Martin
Composer: Oran Harkin
Stage Manager: Sophie Jones
Creative Marketing: Becky Matthews
Fight Choreographer: Diego Retamales
Cultural Consultant: Naser Ali
Prisons Consultant: Philip Greenhow
Cast (of 4): Louis Regan, Malek Domköc, Isaac Harley & Edyll Ismail
