Apples listings

Northern Stage and Company of Angels bring to the stage the very first adaptation of Richard Milward's cult debut novel, Apples.

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Set on a Middlesbrough council estate, this astonishing story is an electrifying collision of Irvine Welsh and Virginia Woolf. Streams of poetic, impassioned and often hilarious words pour from the minds of five fifteen year olds as they negotiate a world where the adults are absent, drugs are everywhere, sex is desperate and life is both terrifying and thrilling.

It's set in the chaotic world of Adam & Eve. They depict a very different Eden. Their world is shocking, colourful, delightful and depressing. They feed every stereotype currently applied to young disaffected people. They are violent, shameless, old before their time, ruthless, and their horizons reach only to their next night out. And yet they challenge and dissolve our prejudice as their brave, complex and profound inner lives are revealed. Battling for self-esteem and afraid of not knowing who they are, they are bewildered, optimistic, intelligent and daft in equal measure.