By Philip Ridley
Directed by André Agius
Ollie and Jill want to tell you about their dream home. Some of the things they did to get it, you might find shocking. But they want you to know they did it all for their baby . . .
Run time: 100 minutes with no interval
Bar opens at 7pm.
Please note: The show begins at 8pm promptly and latecomers will not be admitted. Please arrive before 8pm otherwise we cannot guarantee entry.
Some performances include a Post-Show Talk and Q&A with a Special Guest (30-45 minutes). Check dates on booking page for details.
20% discount on all tickets for our preview performance on Tuesday 5 November
10% discount on all tickets for groups of 5 or more.
10% discount on all tickets for current Workshop participants.
€11 Student/Unemployed tickets are available on the door for all performances with a valid student ID or proof of unemployment (subject to availability).
Recommended for those aged 10 and over.
Please note: the performance contains depictions of violence.
We organise performances during the afternoons at reduced rates especially for schools. To find out more, please contact info@thebridge.brussels.
Our Post-Show Talks take place in the theatre auditorium just after the end of the play. Grab a drink at the bar and join us for a discussion (of 30-45 minutes) with an inspiring speaker making the link between the themes of the play and our everyday lives and realities.
The theme for the talks for this production: The Costs of Gentrification
André Agius, Director of Radiant Vermin, on his vision for the play
Gilles van Hamme, Professor of Human Geography at the Université libre de Bruxelles
Social diversity, a discourse of variable geometry
Dimitri Berliner, Technical Director of Communa
Moving towards a more affordable, democratic, resilient and creative city
Hülya Ertas, Coordinator of exhibitions and publications at the Flanders Architecture Institute
Architecture’s societal and political role
Sébastien Roy, Director of Samusocial.brussels
The state of homelessness in Brussels
Samuel Fuks, Director of La Bulle
Lessons from my chats with people who live on the streets
Philippe van Parijs, Political Philosopher and Political Economist,
A changing Brussels
Philip was born and grew up in the East End of London. He studied painting at St Martin’s School of Art. He has written many highly regarded and hugely influential stage plays: the seminal The Pitchfork Disney (now published as a Methuen Modern Classic), The Fastest Clock in the Universe (winner of a Time Out Award, the Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright, and the Meyer-Whitworth Prize), Ghost from a Perfect Place, Vincent River (nominated for the London Festival Fringe Best Play Award), the highly controversial Mercury Fur, Leaves of Glass, Piranha Heights (nominated for the WhatsOnStage Mobius Award for Best Off West End Production), Tender Napalm (nominated for the London Fringe Best Play Award), Shivered (nominated for the OffWestEnd Best New Play Award), Dark Vanilla Jungle (winner of an Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award), Radiant Vermin (now published as a Methuen Modern Classic), Tonight With Donny Stixx, Karagula (nominated for the OffWestEnd Best New Play Award), The Beast of Blue Yonder, The Poltergeist (winner of the OffWestEnd OnComm Award for Best Live Streamed Play) and Tarantula; plus several plays for young people (collectively known as The Storyteller Sequence): Karamazoo, Fairytaleheart, Moonfleece (named as one of the 50 Best Works About Cultural Diversity by the National Centre for Children’s Books), the seminal Sparkleshark (the first of the Connections Festival plays for young people to be staged professionally by the National Theatre), and Brokenville; also, Feathers in the Snow (shortlisted for the Brian Way Best Play Award).
André is an Edinburgh-Based, Maltese Theatre Director and Theatre-Maker. He directs and creates theatre which is playful, experimental, and full of risk-taking. André works across different styles and genres, from new-writing to contemporary re-tellings and modern classics. He is especially interested in contemporary re-stagings, adaptations and re-inventions of classical texts.
Born and raised in Malta, André has been Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival‘s EXPO Funded Scotland Through Time Shows, Associate Director to Wils Wilson on David Greig's 'Two Sisters' at the Lyceum Theatre and Assistant Producer on the Royal Lyceum Theatre's 'Wonder Festival'. He has directed the show Utter Filth at the Traverse Theatre and has regularly directed for ‘A Play, A Pie & A Pint’ including the ‘Impromptu at Òran Mór’ by Morna Pearson, after Moliere and Tamam Shud by Thomas Jancis.
In Malta, he has directed mainstage shows that include the 5-star "Delicious and Brutal" God Of Carnage by Yazmina Reza for the National Theatre of Malta, A Translation of Harold Pinter’s The Hot House for the National Theatre Company (Teatru Malta), David Hare’s Skylight, an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt with the original orchestrations for Malta’s National Philharmonic Orchestra and has also served as a dramaturg on a production for the National Dance Company, Żfin Malta. He has also been Assistant Festival Manager of the ŻiguŻajg International Festival for Arts Festival for Children & Young People and Assistant Artistic Director of The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Opening Ceremony and Artistic Events.
André has also directed shows that have premiered at the Sharjah Heritage Days in Dubai, The Robert Lewis Stevenson Festival and the Babel International Theatre Festival in Romania.
André holds an MFA in Directing from Edinburgh Napier, under the mentorship of Mark Thomson, A BA (Hons) in Theatre Studies from the University of Malta and a Diploma in Speech and Drama from Trinity College. He has also trained at Rose Bruford College, Odin Teatret in Denmark and at the István Örkény Theatre in Budapest.
Ellie is set & costume designer working across theatre, fashion, music and exhibition design.
She studied English Literature at the University of York before training in Theatre Design at Wimbledon College of Art. After graduating she worked as an Associate Designer at Es Devlin studio for three years, credits include: Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia World tour; Salamander, at Brisbane Festival; exhibition design for An Atlas of Es Devlin at Cooper Hewitt Design Museum; The Crucible at The National Theatre & Gielgud Theatre; A Different Stage on UK tour; Here Not Here at Gothenburg Opera House; Renaissance World Tour for Beyonce. Whilst at the studio she also contributed to the Weeknd’s tour, After Hours, After Dark in both Europe & the US; Bad Bunny’s US tour and Adele’s 30th Album Launch, among others.
As a freelance designer, she co-creative directed Porridge Radio’s headline show at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, having worked on previous set designs for their last two albums Waterslide, Diving Board and Every Bad.
Further credits as set & costume designer include: One of the Boys at The Playground Theatre; Sisters Three at Summerhall; Blizzard at Soho Theatre; Grounded at The Bridge Theatre, Brussels; Her Green Hell at Theatre Royal Plymouth & Bath Ustinov Studios; A Guest at Vault's Festival; For a Palestinian at Camden People’s Theatre; ICA young creatives produced short Rat King, Set Design & Creative Direction for the art work for Foxes album The Kick.
Loup is a Brussels-based sound designer.
Having studied electroacoustic music, he likes to mix electronic and instrumental sounds. Even if he learned experimental and contemporary music, he has always kept an eye on popular and minimalist musics. We can find these influences in his music for movies. He has composed many soundtracks for fiction, documentaries, theatre plays, radio creations and audio-visual installations.
More info coming soon
Assistant Director: Rozana Radu
Production Manager: Steve Bree
Stage Manager: Abbie Moore
together with the support of Arts Council Malta.
Radiant Vermin was first performed at the Brewery Theatre, Bristol on 27 February 2015.
Supported by the Tax Shelter of the federal government of Belgium and the Tax Shelter investors.
By arrangement with Knight Hall Agency Ltd
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