A play that won its writer Zoe Cooper, the title of Most Promising Playwright in last year’s Off West End Awards receives its regional premiere at Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre this autumn. Jess and Joe Forever is a funny, surprising and poignant play about teenage friendship, growing up and the frictions that still exist between urban and rural communities.
Jess is a girl from a big city who is holidaying in Joe’s seaside town. They are both outsiders who gradually form a friendship over several summers that changes both of them forever.
It’s a coming-of-age tale full of soil, secrets and scotch eggs.
Misha Butler, who plays Joe, grew up in London. His TV credits include Casualty and Doctors and a leading role in the Netlix/Channel 4 series Kiss Me First. He played the title role in a recent national tour of The Winslow Boy.
Kate Hargreaves plays Jess. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Her theatre credits include News Revue (Canal Café), Hamlet the Musical (international tour) and workshops of Featherboy (National Theatre) and The Wall (Complicite).
Jess and Joe Forever can be seen in the McCarthy at the SJT from Thursday 25 October to Saturday 10 November.
