BAFTA-winning actress Monica Dolan brings her first play, The B*easts, to the Bush Theatre from 12th February following a hit run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe where it won a Stage Edinburgh Award 2017.
A searing ‘What If?’ exploration of the pornification of our culture and the sexualisation of our children.
Setting the modern obsession with putting your own child first against our responsibility as a society towards our children as a whole, this dark tale, written by and starring Monica Dolan, explores how far one mum will go to give her child what she wants.
Dolan’s first solo play is a chillingly relevant piece that invites us to examine our cultural environment from an extreme perspective – exploring how the unimaginable can take root in what we have come to regard as normality. As Tessa, the central character says, ‘you only have the choices you can see’. So when and how do you start noticing that your moral compass may be being directed by what ‘you may also like’?
Monica Dolan has recently appeared on television as straight-talking Senior Comms Officer Tracey Pritchard in W1A, for the Bush Theatre, Monica starred as Loretta in Chalet Lines, by Lee Mattinson, and performed in NASSIM at the Edinburgh Fringe last year. The Bush also hosted previews of The B*easts before its premiere and sell-out run in Edinburgh.
Monica’s most notable role was as killer Rosemary West in ITV’s 2011 drama Appropriate Adult; she won the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress.
The B*easts is at The Bush Theatre 12th February – 2nd March 2018.
