The House Party

Tour synopsis, cast & creatives

A wild party. A friendship. A cherished pet. And a night that changes everything. It's Julie's 18th birthday, and she's throwing a party in her father's extravagant townhouse. Her boyfriend has just dumped her and her long-suffering best friend Christine is trying to pick up the pieces. As the revellers pile into the booze, down in the kitchen Christine and her boyfriend Jon - son of Julie's cleaner =- clear up and dare to dream of the future. But as the volume goes up and the shots go down, Julie concocts a twisted cocktail of privilege, desire and destruction. Laura Lomas's The House Party spins Strindberg's Miss Julie into intense, fizzing life for today's generation.

Cast/Performers

Rachelle Diedericks (Christine), Nadia Parkes (Julie), Josh Finan (Jon), Amaia Naima Aguinaga, Oliver Baines, Cal Connor, Micah Corbin-Powell, Lyla Garner-Gibbons, Jaheem Pinder, Jamie Randall, Charlotte Stubbs, Priya Uddin, Grace Watkins, Nicole Arthur, Layla Owens

Creatives/Company

Author: Laura Lomas (an adaptation of Miss Julie by August Strindberg)
Producer(s): Chichester Festival Theatre, Headlong (in association with Frantic Assembly)
Director(s): Holly Race Roughan, Scott Graham (movement), Haruka Kuroda (intimacy director), Matilda James (CDG - casting), Julia Head (associate director)
Design(s): Loren Elstein, Joshua Pharo (video)
Costume: Maybelle Laye
Lighting: Joshua Pharo
Music: Giles Thomas
Sound: Giles Thomas
Other(s): Aundrea Fudge (voice and dialect coach), Kat Ellis (production manager)