You Heard Me

Thursday 26 October 7.30pm

Full £12 | Conc £8 | Age 14+

An ARC Stockton Production, co-commissioned by The Albany, BAC, Cambridge Junction, Northern Stage and Theatre in the Mill.

Made by Luca Rutherford with Maria Crocker, Melanie Wilson, Tanuja Amarasuriya, Bethany Gupwell, Bethany Wells, Linzy Na Nakorn, Jenni Jackson and Stephanie McMann.

Are you listening? 

You Heard Me is for anyone who has been underestimated. 
Anyone who has been told to shut up. 
Anyone who has been afraid to walk home. 

You Heard Me celebrates the quiet as well as the loud, the soft as well as the hard. 

You Heard Me is a true story about the power to re-make, re-mould and disrupt. A celebration of a single moment of noise that freed Luca from an attack. Made her understand what it means to take up space. To heal. To be part of something much bigger than yourself.  

This is a show about refusing to stay quiet. This show exists because without using her voice, Luca wouldn’t.

Are you still listening?

CONTENT WARNING: contains references to sexual violence.

★★★★ The Stage (Free School Meals)
★★★★ The Scotsman (Hold On Let Go)
★★★★ The Independent (Hold On Let Go)

Image credit: Camilla Greenwell.

Title and Credits:
You Heard Me

Writer + Performer: Luca Rutherford
Director: Maria Crocker 
Dramaturg: Tanuja Amarasuriya
Composer: Melanie Wilson
Designer: Bethany Wells
Lighting Designer: Bethany Gupwell
Movement Director: Linzy Na Nakorn
Initial Movement: Jenni Jackson & Stephanie McMann

Beautiful People

Thursday 30 November 7.30pm

Full £12 | Conc £8 | Age 16+

In the award-winning ‘Beautiful People’, comedy duo Ridiculusmus – UK theatre’s most enduring
double act – play Violet, Norman and Arthur, three crustaceous centenarians who move at the
pace of turtles mating and discharge their bodily gases into conveniently placed receptacles. As this
hopelessly endearing trio shuffle with relentless positivity through a slow-mo ballet punctured by
fond fumbling and the manic popping of their pills, they attempt to navigate the murky memories
of a ménage à trois, lumbering from drawing-room farce to the tragi-comedy of death and the
inevitable bleak landscape of loss.

Like all Ridiculusmus works, ‘Beautiful People’ – the final part of a trilogy of plays looking at various
aspects of mental health – is a conflation of painstaking research and lived experience, liberated by
the apparatus of comedy and imagination. Informed by close relationships with inspirational elders,
research into drug treatments for ‘complicated grief’ and the study of ancient mourning rituals, it
began its life with acclaimed seasons in Melbourne, London and Edinburgh, where it was selected
as part of the 2019 British Council Showcase and received the Herald Archangel Award.

“Dangerously funny, scatological, surreal, clever and ultimately powerfully humane”

Mark Brown, The Sunday Herald

ridiculusmus.com.

Image credit: Bryony Jackson