ROT. HUSK. LOSER.
By Simon Castle, Somebody Jones, Simon Callisto. Prologue & epilogue by Nusrath Tapadar
From writers Simon Castle, Somebody Jones and Simon Callisto, ROT. HUSK. LOSER. is a unique collaboration that brings together three stories about lies, vanity and love.
Backstage at a gig, an up-and-coming pop band struggle under the pressure of rivalries and unearthed secrets. A new gameshow sees contestants’ darkest memories used against them. In a women’s prison something is growing that is red, alive and strictly forbidden.
With a prologue and epilogue by Nusrath Tapadar, directed by Guy Hodgkinson and performed by a company of actors, this trilogy of short plays offers a confronting reflection on who we are and the structures that hold us in place.
Mouth Studio in association with Park Theatre.
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Evenings
19.00
Thu & Sat15.15
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Duration
2 hours 15 mins (incl. interval)
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Tickets
£18
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Genre
Drama
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Content warnings
Contains references to drug taking.
Content Warnings
Contains references to drug taking.
Our content warnings are updated as a production evolves through rehearsals and previews, so please note they may change between booking a ticket and seeing the production.
Creatives
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Simon Castle
Writer
Simon Castle
Writer
Simon Castle is a writer and producer who specialises in telling queer stories.
His debut play, TWO TRIBES, was shortlisted for both the Tony Craze Award, 2022 and the Charlie Hartill Award, 2025 and is in development at Leeds Playhouse. He’s developing an audio series, BOG. (Audible/Hooley Productions).
His play, Changeling, was part of Amplify, 2022 (Nottingham Playhouse). His monodrama, Lynx Africa and Dildos (Bush Theatre) is published in the queer monologue anthology, FIERCE.
Simon has an extensive background in artist development. His young company plays include: THE CROSSING (Pegasus Theatre); BUTTERFLY (Forest School/Hackney Empire) and he was the engagement producer on Positive (Southwark Playhouse) and All Of Them, Dead (Everyman Cheltenham/UK Tour).
Simon is an alumnus of The National Theatre’s Playwriting Programme, Soho Theatre’s Writers’ Lab and Alumni Group, The North Wall Arts Centre’s Catalyst Programme and The PappyShow’s Mentoring Programme.
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Somebody Jones
Writer
Somebody Jones
Writer
Somebody Jones is a Los Angeles–born playwright and dramaturg, now living, working, and dreaming in London. A graduate of the University of Southern California (BA, Theatre: Playwriting) and Goldsmiths, University of London (MA, Dramaturgy & Writing for Performance), Jones creates work that celebrates and champions Black culture in all its charms and complexities.
Working across horror, magical realism, verbatim theatre, and Black fantasy, Jones crafts bold, genre-bending stories rooted in memory, myth, and magic.
Jones’s debut play, HOW I LEARNED TO SWIM, premiered in 2024 at Roundabout at the Edinburgh Fringe before touring to Brixton House and Bristol Old Vic. Jones is currently the Dramaturg & Cultural Consultant on Deep Azure by Chadwick Boseman at Shakespeare’s Globe (running until 11 April).
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Simon Callisto
Writer
Simon Callisto
Writer
Simon Callisto is a writer for the screen and stage from London.
In 2021, Simon worked at ITV within their Diversity and Inclusion team, supporting talent on and off-screen across scripted and unscripted shows. He was subsequently accepted onto the first fully scripted cohort for the year-long Channel 4 Production Training Scheme in 2022. Since then, Simon’s worked as a Development Assistant at prestigious production company, The Forge Entertainment. Eventually going on to work as an Assistant Script Editor on BBC comedy-drama, Just Act Normal in 2024.
Simon had his first theatre piece – a monologue – performed at the Camden Roundhouse as part of their Last Word Festival in May 2024. Since then, he continues to develop projects for screen and stage as well as working as a freelance script-editor.
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Nusrath Tapadar
Writer
Nusrath Tapadar
Writer
Nusrath is a Queer, Bengali, Muslim actor, writer and comedian from East London. Before training at the Oxford School of Drama, she wrote and performed her comedy hour, ‘Nusrath Tapadar: Hijabi to Hoejabi to Nojabi’. Since graduating, she’s written for ITV X’s Piglets and begun developing her original TV Sitcom, Women in Chicken, with Clapperboard Studios. In 2024 was selected out of 1700 writers to take part in the London Library’s Emerging Writers Programme, after which she joined the Royal Court’s 2025 Introduction to Playwriting group. Last year, she shared her one-woman play, Flowers, Stars and Conquerors, as part of the Hope Theatre’s New Writing Festival. She’s currently working with director Melina Namdar to R&D the play at the Park Theatre. She’s also working on her second play, Made in Bangladesh, which explores the lives of women working in at-home textile factories in the 1970s East End, while writing a period-parody radio comedy with Screenshot 2023 winner Nell Nelson.
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Guy Hodgkinson
Director
Guy Hodgkinson
Director
Guy is a writer & director working across theatre & film.
His next film ‘Sugar’ set in the world of professional bodybuilding is in active development with BAFTA & Grierson Award Winning Producers; Jack Gemmel & Sophie Chater. His award winning short film ‘Aura’ played at BIFA and BAFTA qualifying festivals across the UK and Internationally.
He trained as an actor at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where he was awarded The Laurence Olivier Bursary Award for Excellence by the Society of London Theatre.
He runs Mouth Studio – www.mouthstudio.xyz
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Amy Jackson
Casting Director
Amy Jackson
Casting Director
Amy started her casting career working in commercials with Sasha Robertson and has since gone on to work in a freelance capacity with some of the UK’s most highly respected Casting Directors, including Kate Rhodes James, Rachel Freck, Julie Harkin, Jina Jay, Kate Dowd, Rachel Sheridan, Robert Sterne and Lucinda Syson.
Amy worked alongside Amy Hubbard for the majority of her casting journey, who she co-cast various projects with.
Having grown up in a creative family of actors, Amy prides herself on her ability to support and nurture the actors she works with, allowing them to feel comfortable in an audition setting. She is most excited by casting projects that allow her to discover new and diverse talent, bringing innovative ideas to the casting process.
Amy won the award for ‘Best Casting of a TV Comedy Series’ at the Casting Directors’ Guild Awards 2025.
Amy is a BAFTA Connect Member.
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Benny Goodman
Lighting Designer
Benny Goodman
Lighting Designer
Benny studied Lighting Design at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and graduated in June 2017, also receiving the Simon Crowther Award for Excellence and Commitment to the Institution.
Since graduating, Benny has been working in theatres across the country in a variety of projects and productions, and is a creative collaborator with the theatre company Wonder Fools.
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