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WORMHOLES

PRESENTED BY VISCEM
“No one looking at you would spot a thing out of place. You’re complacent. You and the worm coexist. Even though it’s eating you from the inside, you’ve got no idea.”

A domestic abuse survivor examines the jagged pieces of her past to understand why she’s being questioned by police.

She is in a mental facility, but apart from some memory loss, she can’t understand why she’s there. So why won’t they let her out? And why do all the other women around here remind her of forks in the pathway of her life that she didn’t walk down…. Wormholes to other possible futures and pasts?

But she’s stuck in this life and she thinks she did something terrible… and she needs to remember it, before her actions have dangerous consequences.

The world premiere of this darkly compelling tale about coercive control, domestic abuse and how the mind finds a way to escape, brings together a powerhouse team. Written by Emily Jupp (Liverpool Hope Prize 2019, Bruntwood longlist 2022), starring Victoria Yeates (Call the Midwife, Fantastic Beasts, Ben and Imo) and directed by Scott Le Crass (Rose, Ambassador’s Theatre)

23 JUL–10 AUG
7:30PM TUES-SAT
4PM SUN
£18 STANDARD
£16 CONCESSION
£10 PREVIEWS

WORMHOLES

PRESENTED BY VISCEM
“No one looking at you would spot a thing out of place. You’re complacent. You and the worm coexist. Even though it’s eating you from the inside, you’ve got no idea.”

A domestic abuse survivor examines the jagged pieces of her past to understand why she’s being questioned by police.

She is in a mental facility, but apart from some memory loss, she can’t understand why she’s there. So why won’t they let her out? And why do all the other women around here remind her of forks in the pathway of her life that she didn’t walk down…. Wormholes to other possible futures and pasts?

But she’s stuck in this life and she thinks she did something terrible… and she needs to remember it, before her actions have dangerous consequences.

The world premiere of this darkly compelling tale about coercive control, domestic abuse and how the mind finds a way to escape, brings together a powerhouse team. Written by Emily Jupp (Liverpool Hope Prize 2019, Bruntwood longlist 2022), starring Victoria Yeates (Call the Midwife, Fantastic Beasts, Ben and Imo) and directed by Scott Le Crass (Rose, Ambassador’s Theatre)


Post show Q&A: 1st August 
with Emily Jupp, Scott le Crass, Marie McCarthy, Victoria Yeates and Michelle Agboulos.

Online Streaming: 6th August

23 JUL–10 AUG
7:30PM TUES-SAT
4PM SUN
£18 STANDARD
£16 CONCESSION
£10 PREVIEWS

Wormholes | Rehearsal Gallery

Wormholes | Rehearsal Gallery

Photographer: Rob Greig

Wormholes | Trailer

Cast

VICTORIA YEATES

Actor

Victoria Yeates made her Royal Shakespeare Company debut as Imogen Holst in Ben and Imo by Mark Ravenhill. Victoria appears as Bunty in the Fantastic Beasts films, The Crimes of Grindelwald and its sequel, The Secrets of Dumbledore. She is well known for playing the role of Sister Winifred in Call The Midwife (BBC), with other television credits including A Discovery of Witches (Sky). Victoria’s other theatre credits include: Jean Harlow in Michael McClure’s The Beard (Old Red Lion), Big Love (The Gate), The Crucible (Queens Theatre Hornchurch/ATG tour), Don Juan Comes Back From The War (Belgrade Theatre), Wuthering Heights (Birmingham Rep/tour), Rookery Nook (Menier Chocolate Factory), The League of Youth, Private Lives (Nottingham Playhouse) and The Dogwalker (Jermyn Street). Wormholes is her first one-woman show.

EMILY JUPP

Writer

After a long career as a national newspaper journalist, Emily branched into writing for television and stage in 2016. Her first play ‘Doing Well’, about the mental health crisis affecting young people and its links to social media, took a satirical swipe at the cult of influencers. It was a finalist for the Liverpool Hope comedy playwriting prize in 2019.

She is currently working on a screenplay, a novel, is ghost-writing two books and working on another play about the climate crisis and the men’s rights movement.

Wormholes enjoyed a sold-out two-night script-in-hand reading at The Other Palace theatre in the West End (produced by Keith Merrill) in 2022 and was longlisted for The Bruntwood Prize that year.

SCOTT LE CRASS

Director

Scott’s major credits include: ‘Jab’ by James McDermott starring Kacey Ainsworth, ‘Cut The Crap’ with Sharon Osborne, ‘Toxic’ starring Nathaniel J Hall, ‘Buff’ by Ben Fensome (winner of Playbill Pick of the Fringe at Edinburgh Festival 2023) and Offie-Award winning ‘Country Music’ by Simon Stephens. Last year he was nominated for Best Creative West End Debut at The Stage Awards for ‘Rose’ by Martin Sherman, starring Maureen Lipman.

LEAH KELLY

Set & Costume Designer

Leah is a Performance Designer for stage. She trained in Fine Art at Manchester School of Art. Her credits include Banging Denmark (Finborough Theatre), Jab (Finborough Theatre), and Costume Blood on Your Hands (Southwark Playhouse).

JODIE UNDERWOOD

Lighting Designer

Jodie trained at RADA. Lighting credits includes: A Christmas Carol (Brewhouse Taunton); Cheeky Little Brown (UK Tour); The Life Sporadic of Jess Wildgoose (Pleasance London and Pleasance Edinburgh); DNA (Tara Theatre), After The Act (New Diorama Theatre and Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh); Blow Down (Theatre Royal Wakefield and Leeds Playhouse); The Boys Are Kissing (Theatre503) and Horse-Play (Riverside Studios). Associate Lighting Designs include: Ruckus (UK Tour); The Book Of Will (Shakespeare North Playhouse); Ride (Leicester Curve and Southwark Playhouse); Pigs Might Fly (Theatre Peckham) and When Darkness Falls (UK Tour).

PAUL HOUSDEN

Sound Designer & Composer

Paul Housden is an Australian multi-instrumentalist composer and singer based in London. He honed his eclectic production and musical skills over many years as a self-produced solo artist and frontman of psych band Gentlemen, achieving national radio play, and playing festivals such as Glastonbury, Green Man and Latitude, and venues such as Electric Ballroom, Paradiso, and Scala. Paul’s wide-ranging compositional style is anchored by his love of vintage sounds and genres ranging from soul, orchestral, to analogue synth scapes. In 2010, Paul scored his first short Muscles directed by his brother Edward Housden, which received official selection at Cannes. Other short scores include Homebodies (Best Narrative Short Nominee, 2016), Playpals (2018) by Yianni Warnock, and Multiplex (2020) by Jed Shepherd. He also composed the themes for ITV2 shows 2Awesome and Dating In The Dark. Recently Paul scored an acclaimed podcast/documentary series called The Super Hero Complex for iHeartMedia, which delves into the bizarre and mysterious world of a gang of self-proclaimed real life super heroes fighting street crime in Seattle. Paul is also a busy ad composer.

KEVIN NOLAN

Production Manager

Kevin is a theatre and filmed media producer based in London. Theatre credits include: ‘Jab’ (Finborough Theatre, London), ‘Buff’ (Pleasance, Edinburgh), ‘A Queermas Carol’ (Wheatsheaf Hall, London) and ‘Country Music’ (Omnibus Theatre, London). Film credits include: ‘Queer Shame’ and ‘We 3 Queers’ (both Q&T Media).

ROEL FOX

Stage Manager

Roel Fox is an Amsterdam-born Tech Operator, Stage-Manager, Actor-Musician, Composer, Assistant-Director, Music Director and Singing Teacher. His Operator and Stage Manager credits across London Fringe Theatre venues include: South Kentish Town (Arcola), Improbotics: Rosetta Stone (Rich Mix), Pool No Water, Fury, 4:48 Psychosis (Drayton Arms), Don Juan Comes Back From The War (The New Diorama), Wild East (Theatre 503), Buff (The Vaults), Behold! The Monkey Jesus (The Brockley Jack), and Jab (Finborough Theatre). Some of his stage credits include: Vikings at Helgeland (Drayton Arms), The Accidental Death Of An Anarchist (OSO Arts Centre), Hamlet (Tang Xianzu Theatre), and Epic Love and Pop Songs (New Wimbledon Theatre).

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Concessions

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Accessibility

All performance spaces and facilities are fully wheelchair-accessible. For more info please contact Box Office on 0207 498 4699.

Ticket Collection

We operate a paperless box office system. You will be emailed a receipt once you have booked in advance. There is no need to print this off, just state your name at the box office on arrival.

Café Bar

Serving a menu of hot drinks, craft beers, wine and seasonal cocktails before and after every show and a full home-made food menu including freshly baked pastries, delicious cakes and savoury light bites from Friday – Sunday.

Content Warnings

Contains some swear words and references to emotional abuse, coercive control and sexual themes.

Find out more here.

Age Recommendation

16+

Duration

65m

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