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Rehearsals have begun at the Bush Theatre for Ramona Tells Jim, the world premiere of a darkly comic play about confession and the gravity of young love by Sophie Wu, graduate of the Bush Theatre’s Emerging Writers’ Group. Ramona Tells Jim opens on 20 September and runs until 21 October 2017.
It’s 1998. Ramona, of Englandshire, is 15 and she’s totally cool. Honestly. She’s completely cool. On a wet, midge-riddled geography field-trip she meets Jim, a local laddie wearing an anti-pill fleece. He’s obsessed with hermit crabs, rock erosion and making homemade Irn-Bru cocktails.
Deep in the Scottish Highlands, Ramona falls for Jimmy’s awkward charm and gets caught in a scandal that will haunt them for years to come.
Fast forward fifteen years and Jim, of the shittiest village in Scotland, has got a girlfriend and something like a functional life, but Ramona still can’t shake the consequences of that fateful trip. Determined to clear her conscience, she heads back to the Highlands to find that neither her nor Jim’s lives have turned out how they planned.
Actress and writer Sophie Wu’s debut play, Sophie Wu Is Minging, She Looks Like She’s Dead, premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and transferred to Soho Theatre to critical acclaim. She is currently developing original TV projects with Charlie Brooker’s company, House of Tomorrow, Roughcut and Kudos and has a script commission for Minging Lizzie for Channel 4.
The cast comprises: Ruby Bentall as Ramona, Joe Bannister as Jim and Amy Lennox as Pocahontas. Tickets available here.
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