Their dog Taliban is represented by a small glowing heater that creates an unlikely emotional impact when mistreated by the boys. The living room come bedroom is bookended by scaffold walls that provide both a climbing frame and prison for the brothers, linking childhood play to the rapid decline into crime.
Georgina Lowe’s set should be admired for its minimal surrealism. Alex Austin (Hench) and Jake Davies (Bobbie). Her relationship with Hench is the promise of renewal that drives the play. His adoration of their wretched mother Maggie (Sian Breckin) is a tale of pitiful naivety, yet Breckin manages to muster our sympathy through rations of tenderness and unspoken guilt.Īnnes Elwy plays a delicate Jenny, but she has ghosts of her own and a strong resilience that makes her an equal with the boys. Alex Austin’s Hench is a haunted young man whose downcast demeanour hides a terrifying intensity, whilst Jake Davies’s Bobbie is youthfully bullish and untamed in his emotions.
The same cast from the Manchester run, these four actors have an authentic chemistry that goes from simmering to the boil in seconds. Will they be tamed by her love, or has the savage grown too strong? Once again, Jordan’s writing captures our prejudice and shatters it across the stage. When young neighbour Jenny lends a hand and her heart to the boys, her affection threatens restoration and brings turbulence to the brothers’ exiled existence. Truanting and thieving for survival and booze, brothers Hench and Bobbie cage themselves inside a motherless playground of porn and violent video games. Sian Breckin (Maggie) and Jake Davies (Bobbie). A bleak tale – yet woven with dark comedy – this is a bruising piece of theatre that delivers a huge punch of perspective. Neglected by their alcoholic mother, two teenage brothers and their dog are forced to fend for themselves in a grotty Feltham flat. Much like her previous work (Chicken Shop, Freak), Yen is unapologetic and explicit. The play that won Anna Jordan the prestigious Bruntwood Prize in 2013 has finally come to London, after a successful run at the Royal Exchange in Manchester last year. Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at The Royal Court Last Updated on 27th January 2016 Annes Elwy (Jenny) and Jake Davies (Bobbie).
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