Up In Arms, the Pleasance Theatre and Ellie Keel present

IN LIPSTICK

by Annie Jenkins

Maud, a woman on the run from damage buried in her past, has sheltered Cynthia from the wildness of the world for the last few years. Cynthia loves Maud, and Maud loves Cynthia, but now she’s starting to suffocate. When she meets Dennis, a security guard at the office where she works, she thinks for a moment that she’s glimpsed an escape.

Annie Jenkins’ savage, funny, deeply loving debut gives heartfelt voice to the fractured life of the modern city and the cost of pop culture. A play about sex, lies, damage, and the ceilings on our dreams from a writer who shows us both how powerful and how powerless it feels to be young, and trying to dream a future into being.

Ever since we started Up In Arms, one of our ambitions had been to support the work of other great playwrights, and we were delighted when the Pleasance Theatre gave us the chance to present Annie Jenkins’ debut play at the heart of their season.

Cast

Caroline Faber – Maud

Alice Sykes – Cynthia

James Doherty – Dennis

Company

Writer | Annie Jenkins

Director | Alice Hamilton

Designer | Delyth Evans

Lighting Designer | Simon Gethin Thomas

Sound Designer | Ed Clarke

Stage Manager | Lucy Morris

Production Manager | Jack Greenyer

Producer | Ellie Keel

Dates

Pleasance Theatre, Islington | 8 Jan – 27 Jan 2019