“I could push a bullet between those lips. Gently. I wouldn't break a single tooth”
Philip Ridley's seminal Tender Napalm was hailed an instant classic when it premiered in 2011. Named Best Show by the Observer, Time Out and The Guardian, it has since been performed worldwide. The show now makes its long overdue return - in a startling, brand new production - to surprise and seduce all over again.
Two lovers. A desert Island. Sea serpents. UFOs. Tsunamis. Unicorns. Atomic bombs. What is this thing...called love?
Reviews
★★★★★ “It somehow speaks of the horror and confusion of trauma, unflinching love in the face of howling pain, and above all, it’s incredibly playful and funny and sweet.” Spy in the Stalls
★★★★ “Intimate, intense and deeply romantic.” The Stage
★★★★ “Breathtakingly beautiful and deeply devastating.” Theatre Weekly
★★★★ “This production needs to be seen to be believed.” Everything Theatre
★★★★ “Richly textured and physically tangible.” The Reviews Hub
★★★★ “Compelling...comedic…outstanding.” Pocket Size Theatre
★★★★ “Shows the joy and the pain of love and wreaks every last emotion from its audience.” London Pub Theatres
★★★★ “Something unique…first rate.” London Theatre 1
Jaz Hutchins - Man
Stage Credits include: Paper Cut (Theatre503); The Last Nine Months (of the rest of our lives) (Vault Festival); Moonfleece (Pleasance Theatre); Judgement Day (The Comedy Project, Soho Theatre); Warheads (Theatre Peckham); Now You Don’t (LPOG / Southwark Playhouse); What Once Was Ours (Half Moon / Zest Theatre, National Tour); Burnt Toast (Theatre503 / Assembly - Edinburgh Fringe Festival))l; Stay Happy Keep Smiling (Jermyn Street Theatre); The Red Balloon (Southwark Playhouse). Television Credits include: The Ipcress File (ITV); Temple (Sky); Doctors (BBC); Cursed (Netflix); Not Going Out (BBC).
Adaline Waby - Woman
Adeline trained at LAMDA on the BA course. Her recent credits include playing Annie in Mischief Theatre Company's Peter Pan Goes Wrong in the West End, Bin Juice (Vaults festival); , Moonfleece (Pleasance Theatre);, feature film The Midwife, short film Kindness of Strangers.
Creatives :
Max Harrison - Director
Max Harrison is a theatre director and has directed seven shows over the past five years. After training at LAMDA as an actor he set up his own theatre company, Lidless Theatre, and has directed work across leading London Fringe venues, such as They Have Long Arms and They Can Find Me (Katzpace), Moonfleece (Pleasance), Little Pieces of Gold (The Southwark Playhouse), and now Tender Napalm (The King’s Head). He is currently under the tutelage of Mike Alfreds (Shared Experience, National Theatre) studying directing.
Zoe Weldon - Producer
Zoe is a freelance Theatre Producer. She’s worked in the West End, cutting her teeth after the University of Manchester at Sonia Friedman Productions. She eventually got on the prestigious Stage One Apprenticeship, working at Bill Kenwright Productions Ltd and Tom O’Connell Productions. Zoe also worked at the Ambassador Theatre Group on their Pinter and the Pinter season. Zoe’s most proud of her Off West End / Fringe productions, pre-pandemic her last show was JEW…ish which sold out the Drayton Arms, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the King’s Head Theatre. Previously, she’s also produced shows that the Playground Theatre, Adelaide Fringe, Vaults Theatre, Vaults Festival, JW3 and Hope Theatre. Zoe is also currently the Interim Marketing Manager at the King’s Head Theatre.
Zoe is super excited to be working her first Philip Ridley play with Lidless Theatre and is delighted to be back at the King’s Head Theatre once again.
Kit Hinchcliffe - Designer
Kit Studied Performance Design and Practice at Central St Martins Collage of Art and Design. Since graduating her work has spanned Theatre, Dance, Film, and interactive installation. She has had the pleasure of working with companies such as Duckworth & Persson, Jethro Compton, Ciemulator Dance Theatre and shown work at theatres including Robin Howard Dance Theatre, The Hope, The Pleasance and Dansstationen Malmö. She is a key member of the team at Architecture Social Club where she works as a Designer/fabricator and co artistic director of Lidless Theatre.
Sam Angell - Movement Director
Sam Angell is a Movement Director & Actor who graduated from the BA Acting course at LAMDA in 2015. Since then, he has worked both as an actor (recent credits include Peter Pan, Regents Park Open Air Theatre; Cat In The Hat, Curve Theatre/UK Regional Tour) and as a Movement Director (Moonfleece, Pleasance Islington; Heroes, Drayton Arms/Bridge House Theatre/Brighton Fringe; Mudlark, short film with Action Image Productions). Previous work includes playing the title role in Billy Elliot at the Victoria Palace Theatre. Sam is also a co-director of From The Gut Theatre and is the Movement Consultant for OnAction.
Sam’s method as a movement practitioner draws from his work in dance, martial arts (muay thai and boxing), Alexander Technique, gymnastics, calisthenics, pure movement & storytelling.
Camille Marchadour - Sound Designer
Camille is a french dancer, singer, music producer based between in Stockholm and Paris.
Music work :
Camille has made the music for dance pieces premiered at Wild Card Project in 2016 in Malmö at Skånes Dansteater.
Across 2016-2018, he has scored films of his own that have been screened in several places such as London, Macau, Cyprus, Sweden and the Netherlands.
2017 scored dance films for the company Skånes Dansteater, Malmö/ Sweden
2020 Music for dance piece ‘Ode to an old time´ at Regionteater Väst, Borås /Sweden
2020 Music for the Piece ‘Well Lit’ of Anders Duckworth and Daniel Persson, premiered in Malmö/ Sweden
2021 Music for the dance piece ´The room´ of Pedro Rafael, premier in Lisbon/ Portugal
Camille is currently working on the release of his first Solo EP
Holly Ellis - Lighting Designer
Holly trained at LAMDA. Her recent productions include: Tokyo Rose (Southwark Playhouse and touring); Hotter (Soho Theatre);), Swimming (White Bear Theatre); Dance (Kings Head Theatre); Lousia and Jo and Me (Golden Goose Theatre); and The Boy with the Bee Jar (Hope Theatre). For more of her work please see www.hollyellislighting.com