Chicken Shop, Park Theatre

Epsilon Productions are back at Park Theatre for their summer season, currently showing Crystal Springs, a gripping drama about cyber bullying and parenting in the age of social media. In September, they will follow this with the premier of Anna Jordan’s latest play, Chicken Shop.

Jordan won the 2013 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting for the hard-hitting Yen, and her early draft of Chicken Shop made it to the final ten of the 2011 Verity Bargate Award for new writing at the Soho Theatre. Since then it has been in development with theSoho Literary team and is set to be a thrillingly dark offering.

Yen is a play about two young boys with an alcoholic, absent mother, based on a real crime that Jordan read about in her local newspaper. Chicken Shop is no lighter, as the protagonist, Hendrix, is a complex and dark character, tormented by his mother’s lesbian relationship and consumed by his own feelings of sexual inadequacy and troubling desires. Desperate to lose his virginity, he goes to a brothel, hoping to prove himself to school bullies. There he meets Luminita, played by Lucy Roslyn, a sex trafficked prostitute trapped in a miserable existence. The pair develop an unlikely friendship based on sordid sexual encounters.

Tickets are on sale so book now to see this up and coming playwright's latest work in collaboration with Mercury Award winning designer, Mike Lees.