M is a writer. M is a mother. M is a woman.
The triumph of M’s hit play is hijacked by motherhood – M is burnt out, angry, lonely, craving intimacy but disengaged, and terrified of the future.
She wants to tell her story, her way. But, everyone around her shares their opinions on who she is, who she should be and how she’s f*cking everything up.
Fiercely funny and brutally honest, award-winning writer Jane Upton’s Bruntwood Prize shortlisted play shatters the glossy veneer of motherhood, exposing its raw, messy truth, and dares to question the definition of (her) Self.
Cast
Lizzy Watts trained at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Theatre includes: The Commotion Time (Exeter Northcott); SHED: Exploded View (Manchester Royal Exchange); Either and Ravenscourt (Hampstead); Dealing With Clair and The False Servant (Orange Tree); Hedda Gabler (National Theatre); Strife (Chichester); Angry Brigade and Artefacts (The Bush); God of Chaos and Merit (Theatre Royal Plymouth); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe); Blink (Nabokov); Twelfth Night (Filter); Wasted (Paines Plough).
TV includes: Call The Midwife, Professor T, Endeavour, The Durrells, Midsomer Murders. Film includes: The Best Man.
Lizzy has recorded many radio dramas for the BBC and played regular character Ivy Layton in Radio 4’s Home Front.
Jamie-Rose Monk trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
Theatre credits include: Hansel and Gretel; Princess Essex; The Taming of the Shrew (The Globe), Christmas Actually (The Southbank Centre), Greatest Days The Musical (National Tour), The Witch Finder’s Sister (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch), Talent (Sheffield Crucible), Dick Whittington (National Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bridge Theatre), The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice (Park Theatre), Yap Yap Yap (Royal Festival Hall and Soho Theatre), Fat – A One Woman Show (Hackney Showrooms/Gaggle Productions), The Poisoners’ Pact (Stuff of Dreams Tour), Monologue Slam Winner’s Edition (Theatre Royal Stratford East/Triforce Promotions).
Television credits include: My Lady Jane (Amazon Studios); Gangsta Granny Strikes Again (BBC); Doctors (Semi Regular, BBC); Holby City (BBC); Class Dismissed (Series Regular, Series 1-3, CBBC); Gameface (Objective Fiction).
Film credits include: Holmes & Watson (Columbia Pictures Corporation).
Comedy credits include: Buttery Brown Monk (Leicester Square Theatre); The Gag Show (Gaggle Productions).
Radio credits include: Sketchtopia – Series 1 & 2 (BBC Radio 4), Athena’s Cancel Culture (BBC Radio 4)
Cian recently appeared across cinemas in Per Fly’s feature as Heinrich Wieschhoff in the new feature Hammarskjöld, opposite Sex Education’s Mikael Persbrandt.
Cian has just filmed FBI: International and will soon be seen in ITV’s returning crime series DI Ray, playing Ethan Henderson.
Further film credits include: Falling Into Place (Weydemann Bros.); Snap Shot (Contraption Ltd/Parkland Pictures); A Winter Prince (Wales Productions); Caught; Nina Forever (Jeva Films); RPG (MGN Filmes); Holy Water (Feature Productions); Ghost Town (Haunted Productions) and In The Siders Web (Thistle Productions).
TV credits include: Midsomer Murders (ITV); Out Of Her Mind (Stolen Picture); Treadstone (Not-4-Not Productions); The A List (Kindle Entertainment); Outlaws; Doctor Foster; Father Brown; New Tricks (all BBC); Shameless Series 7 (Channel 4) and Walking The Dead (BBC).
Theatre credits include: Wildefire (Hampstead), Translations (Sheffield Theatres), Our Boys (Duchess Theatre), The Member Of The Wedding (Young Vic Theatre).
Cian has a great presence in the video-gaming scene, best known as Zane in the Borderlands.
TRAINING: Ian Smith, ITV Workshop, Nottingham; Identity Drama School
THEATRE INCLUDES: One Night in Miami (ABKCO Theater/Nottingham Playhouse), The Grapes of Wrath (Nuffield Theatre), The Refugee Boy (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Lonely Cowboy (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Blue (Arts Theatre, Notts), Measure for Measure (ITV Workshop), Romeo and Juliet (ITV Workshop), Our Style Is Legendary (Nottingham Playhouse)
TELEVISION INCLUDES: Blade Runner 2099 (Amazon Prime), Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes (Etta Pictures), 3 Little Birds (Tiger Aspect), FBI International (CBS Studios), Nova Jones (JAM Media), Worzel Gummidge (Leopard Pictures), Gold Digger (BBC), Gormint (Amazon Prime), Jamie Johnson (CBBC), Doctors, West 10 LDN (Kudos), Off the Hook (Greenroom Entertainment/BBC), The Vice (Carlton TV), A Thing Called Love (BBC)
FILM INCLUDES: Greenland: Migration, BYPASS (Third Films), One for the Road (Film Four)