Mad Jacks Theatre, Sarah Kent and Occasional Dance and Maya Yoncali & Andy McCredie
Resolution Festival 2025
About Mad Jacks Theatre, Sarah Kent and Occasional Dance and Maya Yoncali & Andy McCredie
ACNE ROMEO
ACNE ROMEO is a thrilling and messy dance-theatre translation of Sam Smith’s frightening new play. Boy and girl meet in a violent world. It’s a collision course. A riot. This has to be a love story.
Thrown together by chance, R and J decide to make a home for themselves. They pass the time undoing sex and want, consumed by pleasure and brute tenderness. As the world bares its teeth around them, they carve themselves into each other for safety. But as day turns to night and knives begin to shine, their star-crossed tumble of need and desire descends into a pit of gendered cruelty.
Presented by Mad Jacks Theatre, the company behind the ‘scorchingly emotional’ (★★★★ Broadway Baby) Photographs, and ‘the extraordinary commentary on art, love and life’ (★★★★ Adventures in Theatreland) Scenes with boys.
About Mad Jacks Theatre
Sam Smith is a writer, director and dancer whose work explores the interactions of queerness and transness with form, movement and language. Previous credits include their award-winning debut, ‘Scenes with boys’ at Riverside Studios, and a “guerrilla” production of Travis Alabanza’s ‘Overflow’ staged in their university bathrooms. They are the founder and artistic director of Mad Jacks Theatre.
Daze Hingorani is a queer choreographer and poet, currently working as a Resident Artist at The Roundhouse and in association with Sadler’s Wells. Obsessed with nostalgia and grief and otherhood and being seen and being lonely, their work is interdisciplinary and at all times holds tenderness at its core.
Cast & Credits
Writer-Director: Sam Smith (he/she/they)
Choreographer: Daze Hingorani (they/he)
Cast: Matisse Ciel (they/she)
Cast: Laurie Ward (she/her)
Composer: Tate Hingorani-Short (he/him)
Lighting Designer: Nye Roberts (he/him)
A Strange Intimacy
A man. A woman. And a relationship that’s got stuck. It needs a reboot or, rather, a boot up the arse. They’ve tried switching it off and on again, but that didn’t work. So it’s time to get creative – to renegotiate, fight their corner, air their grievances, state their case. The process could be playful and fun, or mean and nasty – a roller coaster ride to hell and back that gets physical but is bound to achieve results. Will the outcome be the one they want, though? Enjoy the ride; it will be gloriously bumpy!
About Sarah Kent/Occasional Dance
Sarah Kent has extensive experience of devising dance and physical theatre through improvisation. She has worked in this way with choreographers Sally Marie, Annie Kelleher, Rosemary Lee, Caldonia Walton and Elina Akhmetova; directors Kristin Winters, Rocio Ayllón and dancers Yong Min Cho, Avatara Ayuso and Jan Lee. Recently, though, frustrated by the prescribed roles offered to older dancers, her focus has shifted towards devising her own pieces and A Strange Intimacy is a result of this new departure.
Cast & Credits
Creator and Dancer: Sarah Kent
Dancer and Producer: Andy Newman
Composer: Alice Mills
Photographer: Laura Hinski
Another Day of Loving
A raw and tender dance-theatre exploration of grief, relationships, and the search for connection after loss.
Another Day of Loving marks the live performance debut of partners and collaborators Maya Yoncali and Andy McCredie. Drawing from the dynamics of their relationship, the work moves beyond the personal to reflect on the universal fear of losing someone you love—or loving someone you know you’ll lose. Blending their process of creating cinema with their respective practices of dance and theatre, they use physical storytelling to explore what it means to love in the face of death.
About Maya Yoncali & Andy McCredie
Maya Yoncali is a British-Polish-Armenian contemporary dancer and artist, exploring physical expression through diverse creative lenses, including filmmaking, movement direction, and photography. Her collaborations include Sadler’s Wells, Siobhan Davies, and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Andy McCredie is an actor, director, and theatre/film producer, working internationally across experimental stages and screens. A RADA graduate, he is an ensemble member and Executive Director of the experimental theatre company The Director’s Theatre Writer’s Theatre (TDTWT), with credits including performances at Art Basel, Centre Pompidou, and various galleries and performance spaces across Europe and the USA.
Maya and Andy’s last collaboration, Sometimes They Sing (2022), was praised for its "poetical tension in relationships" and "abstract, highly artistic language" (Dieter Wieczorek, 71st Berlinale Jury). The film screened at BAFTA-qualifying Brighton Rocks and other international festivals.
Cast & Credits
Choreographer, Director and Performer: Maya Yoncali
Director and Performer: Andy McCredie
Assistant Director: Jack Clearwater
Lighting Designer: Abbie Sage
