ABOUT
On a beautiful spring evening – when both moons are full – two teenagers vow eternal love. It is a moment that will have cataclysmic consequences. Not just for them, but for the world on which they live. A world where Prom Night is a matter of life or death, where weapons are grown and trained like pets, and where a chosen few are hearing a voice. A voice that speaks of… Karagula.
Philip Ridley’s Karagula is a world premiere of epic proportions. Emerging company PIGDOG brings this extraordinary, form-shattering play to life. Written in fractured timescale, Karagula explores our constant need to find meaning. To believe we’re here for a reason. To have faith in something. Faith in… anything.
REVIEWS
★★★★ West End Wilma "DAZZLING'
★★★★ The Arts Desk "EXHILARATING'
★★★★ Grumpy Gay Critic 'ASTONISHING'
★★★★ TheatreBubble 'INCREDIBLE'
★★★★ TheatreNews 'CORAGEOUS'
NOMINATED FOR EIGHT OFF WEST END AWARDS
Best Supporting Male (Obi Abili), Best Supporting Female (Lynette Clarke), Best Costume Design, Best Lighting Design, Best Sound Design, Best Director, Best New Play, Best Production
"Taut, tense and terrifying...You will never look at milkshakes in the same way again'
The Times
'crazy, chilling, clever and astonishingly ambitious...There is nothing else like it on the London stage'
Financial Times
'the only word fit to describe it would be "epic"…well and truly out of this world'
Huffington Post
'Karagula hums with ambition, it vibrates with it...Max Barton’s direction shows a brilliant fluency of styles, its texture and inventiveness a solid match for the scale and variety of Ridley’s writing'
The Stage
★★★★
'totally absorbing and intensely fascinating...like nothing else you’re likely to see.' #1 in Stage Tips
The Arts Desk
★★★★
'vivid fantastical adventure...completely compelling'
West End Wilma
★★★★
'Brutal, bombastic and lacerating...an epic beast of unquestioning modern relevance...A contemporary fairy-tale so ambitious, astonishing, and completely crushing, you’ll never want to see another milkshake as long as you live'
Grumpy Gay Critic
★★★★
'jaw-droppingly ambitious...dangerous and courageous...Max Barton has used every inch of theatrical ingenuity'
Chloe Billington, Theatre News
'Epic and Ambitious...dynamism that matches the energy of the fast-moving script'
Catherine Love, Exeunt
'The world of Karagula is completely convincing, and with director Max Barton and designer Shawn Soh, brilliantly realised.'
The BIG Issue
'Unlike anything else in London at the moment'
Tom Wicker, Time Out
CAST
Obi Abili - Jerry and others
Emily Burnett - My Only Girl and others
Emily Forbes - Libby and others
Caroline Parker - Jagriti and others
Tony Bell - Teacher and others
Lynette Clarke - Nettie and others
Lanre Malaolu - Mitch and others
Theo Solomon - Dean and others
Charmaine Wombwell - Skaterboy and others
CREW
Writer
Philip Ridley
Designer
Shawn Soh
Lighting Design
Ric Mountjoy
Costume Supervisor
Kitty Hawkins
Production Manager
Sam Clear
Assistant Costume Supervisor
Flora Moyes
Assistant Stage Manager
Ash Mochan
Associate Producer
Ceri Lothian
Director
Max Barton
Co-Designer
Frankie Bradshaw
Sound Design
Jethro Cooke
Stage Manager
Demelza Fry
Assistant Director
Danielle McIlven
Co-Assistant Costume Supervisor
Mia Michelino
Producer
Ramin Sabi