Mad Jacks Theatre, Sarah Kent and Occasional Dance and Yoncali McCredie
Resolution Festival 2025
About Mad Jacks Theatre, Sarah Kent and Occasional Dance and Yoncali 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
Raw and tender dance-theatre by award-winning filmmakers Maya Yoncali and Andy McCredie. Another Day Of Loving is a romantic and honest approach to grief in a relationship, exposing what it means to be in love in the aftermath of death. Churning between techno and 1960’s Hollywood film scores, the piece ricochets through the character’s bodies and inner turmoil, to present a heartfelt narrative on love and loss.
About Yoncali McCredie
Maya Yoncali is a British/Polish/Armenian contemporary dancer and multidisciplinary artist, exploring physical expression through varying artistic lenses; filmmaking, movement direction and photography. Collaborations include: Sadler’s Wells, Siobhan Davies, and The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Andy McCredie is an Actor and UK based theatre and film producer. He is an ensemble member and producer of radical and experimental queer performance company The Director’s Theatre Writer’s Theatre, resident at London Performance Studios.
Maya and Andy’s short film Sometimes They Sing (2022) screened at various international film festivals, won Best Short Film at Manchester Lift-Off International Film Festival, and Best Film Score at International Sound and Music Festival 2022 (Croatia).
Cast & Credits
Choreographer, Director and Performer: Maya Yoncali
Director and Performer: Andy McCredie
