19th Street Productions has announced the London première of Catherine and Anita after a successful debut at last year’s Edinburgh Festival. Derek Ahonen’s one woman show starring Sarah Roy as Catherine, opens on 9 February with previews from 7 February and running until 24 February.
All hell breaks loose when a tortured young misfit named Catherine strikes up a friendship with the mysterious Anita. As their unlikely relationship develops, their world escalates into a violent cycle of destruction and revenge. Told over the course of decades, Catherine and Anita is a dark comedy about heartbreak, illness and ultimately how those in need so often slip through life’s cracks.
Derek Ahonen is Writer/Director and an internationally acclaimed playwright, director and founder of The Amoralist Theatre Company in New York. Credits for Amoralist Theatre include The Pied Pipers of The Lower East Side and Bring Us The Head of Your Daughter (PS122), Happy in the Poorhouse (Theatre 80), The Bad and The Better (Playwrights Horizons) and The Qualification of Douglas Evans (Walkerspace). This is his first play to be stage in London.
Sarah Roy plays Catherine. As part of the Amoralist Theatre Company she starred in Bring Us The Head of Your Daughter (PS122), Animals and Plants (The Gershwin Hotel) and The Bad and The Better (Playwrights Horizons). Her London theatre work includes The Drunken City (Tabard Theatre); and for television, Glue. In addition, she is the founder and Artistic Director of 19th Street Productions in London.
