ROYAL COURT IN PIMLICO ANNOUNCEMENT: WE ANCHOR IN HOPE WRITTEN BY ANNA JORDAN

After a sold out run of her Bruntwood Prize-winning play Yen in January, Anna Jordan returns to the Royal Court Theatre with her new play We Anchor in Hope. Devised as a work in progress and performed in a Pimlico pub, We Anchor in Hope will run 30 September, 1 & 2 October 2016 only. The project is part of Beyond The Court, a three-year residency in Tottenham and Pimlico.

The cast includes Adelayo Adedayo, Peter Gordon, Colin Mace, Jed O’Hagan and Deka Walmsley.

We Anchor in Hope is a fictional piece inspired by interviews and drinking sessions carried out in and around Pimlico. It will be performed script-in-hand at LALGRA Community Hall, Under Morgan House, Lillington and Longmoore Gardens.

To endings. To beginnings. To the Anchor.

Pimlico’s local pub, The Anchor, closes for good tomorrow. For Landlord Kenny, his loyal staff and faithful regulars it’s the end of an era.

As gastro-pubs pop up around them and public houses become private flats, they’re determined to go out with a bang. Tonight they’re drinking the bar dry as a bone.

History, like spilt beer, has seeped into the carpet. There’s more to lose here than just a pub.

Overheads. Maintenance. Craft Beer. Netflix. There’s a million and one reasons. We got one more night – let’s make it a good one.

For more information or images please contact Anoushka Hay on 0207 565 5063 / AnoushkaHay@royalcourttheatre.com

Full listings and biography information below.

Listings Information:

We Anchor in Hope
By Anna Jordan
Directed by Hamish Pirie
LALGRA Community Hall, Under Morgan House, Lillington and Longmoore Gardens, Pimlico, London, England, London SW1V 2LF
30 September – 02 October 2016 7pm
Age Guidance 14+
Tickets £8 (£1 for Pimlico residents with proof of address)
Cash bar only

Anna Jordan
For the Royal Court: Yen (& MCC New York/Manchester Exchange)
Other theatre includes: Freak (Assembly Festival Edinburgh/Theatre503), Chicken Shop (Park), A Serious Case of the Fuckits (RCSSD), Stay Happy Keep Smiling (Soho).
Awards include: The Bruntwood Prize 2013. Anna was a finalist in the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2014 – 2015 with Yen.

Hamish Pirie
For the Royal Court: Human Animals, Violence and Son, Who Cares and Teh Internet is Serious Business.
Other theatre includes: Shibboleth (Abbey), I’m With the Band, Quiz Show, Love With A Capital ‘L’, 3 Seconds, Most Favoured, Demos, Bravo Figaro, The Last Bloom and 50 Plays for Edinburgh (Traverse), Salt Root and Roe (Donmar/Trafalgar); Purgatory, Stacy (Arcola & Trafalgar Studios) and Pennies (Nabokov).
Hamish was Resident Assistant Director at Paines Plough and at the Donmar Warehouse. He is Associate Director at the Royal Court.

Adelayo Adedayo (Pearl)
For the Royal Court: Cuttin’ It (& Young Vic/Crucible, Sheffield/Yard/Latitude).
Other theatre includes: Klippies (Southwark); Rachel (Finborough); The Dead Wait (Park).
Film includes: Unlocked, Jet Trash, London Fields, Gone Too Far, Sket.
Television includes: Black to the Future, Houdini & Doyle, Stan Lee’s Lucky Man, Law & Order UK, Some Girls, Skins, Meet the Bandaiis.

Peter Gordon (Frank)
Theatre includes: Shortstuff, Closer To God, We Will Be Gone (Without a Paddle); The Apple Cart (The Peter Hall Company); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Rose Theatre Company, Kingston); The Birthday Party (Bristol Old Vic); Much Ado About Nothing (Theatre Royal, Bath); Galileo’s Daughter (Bath/UK Tour); As You Like It (Bath/UK & US Tour); Lady Windemere’s Fan, Noises Off (West End).
Television includes: Rosemary & Thyme, Doctors – Last Chance, The Queen’s Sister, The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher, Partners In Crime, Brideshead Revisted, Scum, Murder in Mind, Oranges are not the Only Fruit.
Film includes: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Sleepy Head, Sparkle, A Bridge Too Far.
Peter was part of Sir Peter Hall’s company at the Old Vic and Theatre Royal, Bath. He often appeared with the National, Chichester, in rep and on both UK and US tours in Shakespearian plays and classical theatre.

Colin Mace (Kenny)
For the Royal Court: Glory of Living.
Other theatre includes: One Man Two Govnors, War Horse (& West End), All the Daughters of War, My Father the Angel, Achilles (National); The 39 Steps (UK tour); Jenufa (Arcola); Pravda (Chichester Festival/Birmingham Rep); The Odyssey (Lyric, Hammersmith/Bristol Old Vic); Twelfth Night (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Neville’s Island (Watermill, Newbury); Breaking the Code (Theatre Royal, Northampton); A Russian in the Woods, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, La Maison Suspendue, Othello, Volpone, Anthony & Cleopatara (RSC/Barbican); The Magistrate (Chichester Festival/West End); Hamlet (Almeida); St. Joan (Theatr Clwyd/ Strand Theatre); Pericles, The Comedy of Errors, The Venetian Twins (Oxford Stage Company); The Norman Conquests, Jane Eyre (Pitlochry Festival); The Master & Margarita (Company of Clerks/BAC); Jamaica Inn (Theatre Royal, Plymouth); Time & The Conways (Theatr Clwyd/Old Vic; Macbeth (BAC); Ivan Vasilievich (Company of Clerks).
Television includes: Maigret Sets a Trap, Tennison, Father Brown, I Want my Wife Back, Thirteen, Lucky Man, From Cradle to Grave, Siblings, Doctors, Call the Midwife, Holby City, Foyle’s War, The Lost Honour, The Thick of It, Dead in Tombstone, Coming Up, House of Anubis, Shirley, EastEnders, The Night Watch, Peep Show, Derailed, Abolition, The Bill, Down to Earth, Casualty, The Project, A Touch of Frost, Underworld, Bright Hair, Drop the Dead Donkey, Dressing for Breakfast, Pork Pie, Staying Alive, Nazi Germany, Bodyguard, The Chief, Birds of a Feather, Good Guys, Iphigenia at Aulis, London’s Burning.

Jed O’Hagan (Bilbo)
Theatre includes: YEN (Gothenburg English Studio); When the Terror Has Ended the Victims Will Dance (Platform Theatre); Dirty Promises (Sheer Drop).
Television includes: Britannia, Our Girl.

Deka Walmsley (Shaun)
Theatre includes: Billy Elliot, Cooking with Elvis, Blood Brothers (West End); The Pitmen Painters (& National/Broadway/UK tour), A Northern Odyssey, Geoff Dead: Disco for Sale, Keepers of the Flame (& RSC), Tales from the Back Yard, Laughter When We’re Dead, Bones (& Hampstead), Some Voices, Lone Star, Your Home in the West (& Royal Exchange, Manchester), And a Nightingale Sang, The Importance of Being Earnest, Long Shadows, Some Like it Cold, Bandits, Northern Glory (Live); Cyrano de Bergerac (Bristol Old Vic); Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads (Theatre Royal, York/UK tour); Enemies (Almeida); Home Shetland (NTS); Playing with Fire (National); Mulgrave (Wilson & Wilson); The Last Waltz Season (Oxford Stage Company/Arcola); Gaffer (Theatre Royal, York/Southwark); News from the Seventh Floor (Watford Palace); Secret Heart (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Mapping the Edge (Crucible, Sheffield); Andorra, Stars in the Morning Sky, Animal Farm (Northern Stage).
Television includes: Three Girls, EastEnders, Doctors, Our Friends in the North, Nature Boy, The Bill, Ticket to Ride, Rebus, Waiters, Breeze Block, Holby City, Grease Monkey, 55 Degrees North, Waking the Dead, Dirty War, Dalziel & Pascoe, George Gently.

Beyond The Court is supported by Bloomberg philanthropy.