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As part of the Women of the World festival at the Southbank Centre, Clean Break will be showing our new production Hours til Midnight by Sonya Hale
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Cakehole

 
Cakehole by Lucy Kirkwood
 
Cakehole by Lucy Kirkwood
 
Cakehole by Lucy Kirkwood
 
Cakehole by Lucy Kirkwood
written by Lucy Kirkwood
directed by Imogen Ashby
venue: The Michael Frayn Space, Hampstead Theatre
15.07.08 to 16.07.08

Creatives

Lucy Morrison - Dramaturg
Fiona McLain - Costume
Melissa Dunne - Assistant Director
Cast
Donna-Marie Brady - Daisy/Beattie
Angel Chance - Charlie
Lafay Daisy Denton - Landlady/Lily
Vicky Tulley - Jenny
Trisha Walsh - Sam/Alf
Elvina Whitfield - Val
Yvonne Wickham - Rose
Tabitha Witter - Chris
All other parts played by members of the company

“It’s not like your mother was a poster girl for the Temperance Society, is it?"

Full of humanity and wit, Cakehole, by Lucy Kirkwood, is an epic story on a personal scale which explores the loves, lives and demons of three generations of women.
 
It’s post-war East London and Charlie and Rose are the perfect couple. Charlie’s a hard worker – he likes a drink with the lads but he’s at his happiest when Rose is in his arms. Pretty soon chins start wagging and the community discovers the truth… that Charlie’s not the perfect man. In fact, Charlie’s not a man at all.
 
Years later, when Rose’s daughter Chris finds a box of her mother’s things, she finally starts to piece together the story which left her mum heartbroken and lost. As she delves further she discovers a side to her mum she could never have imagined possible.
 
Directed by Imogen Ashby and performed by students on Clean Break’s 2007/8 Access to Higher Education course.
running time 55 minutes