Sparks

Description

Fifteen years of disconnected sparks to do the damage. To stop her beautiful fantastical brain from working. 'Fall in love in my early 20s, get married in my late 20s, have at least one child by the time I'm 30. F*ck!' Life is hard to navigate when you've got so many questions. Can I put this jumper in the washing machine? Do you have my birth certificate? Where did you find love? How did you do it? How do you survive? A story of a kamikaze love affair with unexpected consequences. Hilarious and heartbreaking, written by Jessica Butcher and with original music by Anoushka Lucas. Sparks is a two-hander musical about the brain's response to grief. This edition was published to coincide with the run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2018, ahead of its transfer to the HighTide Festivals 2018 in Aldeburgh, Suffolk and Walthamstow, London.

Jessica Butcher is an actress who was most recently in OFFSIDE (Edinburgh Festival 2017 & U.K. Tour). Jessica is known for playing Lucy Fuller in Camilla Whitehill's award winning play WHERE DO LITTLE BIRDS GO? Sometimes she's in EastEnders. SPARKS is her first play. Her second play, BOOTS, will also premiere in London in March 2018. Anoushka Lucas is a multi-instrumentalist singer and songwriter. Her music has been championed by Jazz Fm (Love Supreme winner 2013) and Radio 2 (Jamie Cullum show, BBC Introducing). Composer: Klook's Last Stand (Book by Che Walker, Park Theatre 2014), The Etienne Sisters (Book by Che Walker, Stratford East 2015), Klook's Last Stand (NAMT, Oct 2017) Actor: Jesus Christ Superstar (Mary Magdalene, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, Olivier Award Best Musical Revival), Murder on the Orient Express (Pianist, dir: Kenneth Branagh, 20th Century Fox), Been So Long (dir: Tinge Krishnan, BFI/Film4/Greenacre)