Mother. Father. Son.

Pecho Mama's radical reinvention of the Oedipus myth is an intoxicating whirlwind of ecstasy and devastation. A powerhouse production for our times, telling Jocasta's story, and fusing London’s domestic grit with a searing live Electronica score. 

AN ELECTRIFYING REIMAGINING OF THE
ULTIMATE LOVE TRIANGLE

LIVE PERFORMERS

Oedipus - Ryan David Harston

Laius - Kwame Bentil

Jocasta - Mella Faye

Drums - Don Bird

Keyboards - Alex Stanford

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VOICES

Terry - Iain Johnstone

Delphi (Class Teacher) - Samantha Negbenebor 

Literature Students - Frankie Clearance,

Ramone Dale-Cruickshank, Ndongo Faye

Doctor - Katie Grace Cooper

Private Investigator  - Jason Lines

Laius’ Mother  - Olivette Cole-Wilson

Women in Bathroom - Rosie Gray, Edie, Katie Grace Cooper

Police - Abigail Dooley, Emma Edwards, Oliver Harrison, Lee Ross, Jo McInnes, Shireen Dhondy

Roxy - Oyinka Yusuff

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CREW

Writer & Director - Mella Faye

Music - Pecho Mama (Don Bird, Mella Faye, Alex Stanford)

R&D Co-Director - Jo McInnes

Assistant Director - Chloe Cattin

Technical Manager - Russell Beck

Live Sound Engineer - Daria Lipinska

Lighting Design - Clare O'Donoghue & Tanya Stephenson

Costume Design and Make - Zero To Product

Set Design  - Mella Faye

Sound Design - Mella Faye 

Set Build  - Adam Bottomley & Boathouse Carpentry

Set Paint - Tamara D'Silva

Intimacy and Fight Co-ordination  - Enric Ortuno

Movement Direction - Chris Evans

R&D Sound Design - Ross Flight, Don Bird

Sound Consultancy - Dominic Kennedy

Images - Jo Thorne

Graphic Design - Harry Neal

Filming - Cameron Carver

PR - Chloe Nelkin

AND THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO HAS HELPED US ALONG THE WAY...

Joe Flavin, Harry Harris, Psychic, Kanyinsola Olanrewaju, Barbara Pierson, Philip Shelley, Daniel Bailey, Mensah Bediako, Guleraana Mir, Simon Booth, Nic Connaughton, Lewis Punchard, Harry Johnson, Jason Dormon, Jan Lennox, Ali Pritchard, Boathouse Carpentry, Ophir Burton, Clodagh Chapman, Alex Walker, Penelope Gwen, Philip Halmarack, Sam Halmarack, Tilly Coppins, Dara Safvatnia, Fiona Allison, Julene Robinson, Helen Jewell.

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