Candy
By Tim Fraser
Will didn’t. It was just something people said to sound romantic. He’s just a Northern guy who’s been single for far too long; still living at home, getting plastered every weekend, and stuck in his dead-end job.
That was until he saw the seductive singer, Candy… An epiphany. A revelation. The only problem is: she’s his best mate in drag.
As Will struggles to make sense of his newfound feelings, his life crumbles at the fringes. Should he seize life by his bollocks and tell Candy how he feels? Can he ever be with her? And what does loving her really mean?
Opening up conversations about crisis of identity and exploring sexuality in a world consumed by toxic masculinity, Tim Fraser‘s debut play swings between comedy and pathos in a solo show performed by Michael Waller as Will, who tussles with his new feelings and what they might mean. Candy makes its London premiere following a hit run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2022.
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Content warnings
Strong swearing, sexual content, and disturbing themes including of suicide and references to death.
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In the press
"A superb drama... well worth seeing"
LondonTheatre1
"Captivating and compelling"
Fairy Powered Productions
"Trailblazer of its genre"
Broadway World
"A hugely evocative tale"
The Reviews Hub
"It’s intimate, it’s entertaining, and it’s a joy to watch"
All That Dazzles
Ham & High
"tender, vulnerable performance "
The Stage
Cast & Creative
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Michael Waller
Will
Michael Waller
Will
Theatre credits include CANDY (UK Tour, Underbelly/Edinburgh Fringe, ZOOTV/Edinburgh Fringe, King’s Head Theatre), Reboot: Shorts 1 and 2 (Bunker Theatre), Love and Money, Macbeth: Reboot, and Stace in Space (Vaults Festival). Michael is the co-founder and producer of Reboot Theatre Company, and also works as a respiratory doctor specialising in cystic fibrosis.
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Tim Fraser
Writer
Tim Fraser
Writer
Candy is Tim Fraser’s debut play. With Sarah Soh, he is the co-writer of Juniper Mae, a series of illustrated children’s books, the first of which was published by Flying Eye Books in March this year.
Tim has an MA in Screenwriting from the NFTS and was part of BBC Writersroom’s London Voices in 2022.
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Nico Rao Pimpare
Director
Nico Rao Pimpare
Director
Nico Rao Pimparé is a British-Indian-French director for stage and screen. As a theatre director his credits include: Diary of a
Somebody (Seven Dials Playhouse), Rainer (Arcola Theatre), Candy (Underbelly, King’s Head Theatre, Blue Elephant Theatre/ZOOTV, Park Theatre), Reboot: Shorts 2, The Interpretation of Dreams (Bunker Theatre), Jules César (Voice4Thought
International Festival, Dakar), Dead Souls (Theatre N16), and Nozdryov (Young Vic, Freshworks).
Student productions includes: Three Sisters (LAMDA) and The Great Stage (East 15).
His film work includes: The Start of Nothing (short) and They Just Use The Sky (short).
Nico is also an actor, with credits in Hollywood, UK and European TV & film productions, and theatres across the UK.
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Jonathan Chan
Lighting Designer
Jonathan Chan
Lighting Designer
Jonathan trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
His credits include: Love Bomb (NYT), Duck (Arcola), Grindr: The Opera (Union), Snowflakes (Park Theatre; Old Red Lion), All Roads (London Tour), Get Happy (Pleasance), Emmeline (UK Tour), In the Net (Jermyn Street), Grandad Me and Teddy Too (Polka), The
Solid Life of Sugar Water (Orange Tree Theatre), Heroin to Hero (Edinburgh Fringe), Move Fast and Break Things (Camden People’s & Edinburgh Fringe), Pussycat In Memory of Darkness, The Straw Chair (Finborough), Maybe Probably, Belvedere (Old Red Lion),
Different Owners at Sunrise (The Roundhouse), Barstools to Broadway, Amphibian (King’s Head), Time, Random (Tristan
Bates), Urinetown: the Musical, Opera Makers (Guildhall School), Fidelio (Glyndebourne – Assistant Lighting Designer) and The Passenger R&D (Guildhall – Associate Lighting Designer).
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Stephen Waller
Original Music
Stephen Waller
Original Music
Stephen is a pianist, composer, teacher, Head of Music in Newcastle (and brother of Michael). He has worked with composer Stuart MacRae and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and arranged for conductor John Wilson. Stephen has a passion for choral music
and theatre, having written for Voices of Hope and Robert Icke. He is currently working on his second musical with lyricist Craig Dacey.
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Anna Short
Sound designer
Anna Short
Sound designer
Anna trained at LAMDA.
Theatre credits as Sound Designer include: Lady Dealer (Roundabout, Summerhall); Bad Ladz (Studio at New Wimbledon Theatre); Spy for Spy (Riverside Studios); Primary Shakespeare: As You Like It (Orange Tree Theatre); Crackers (Polka Theatre); Ravenscourt (Hampstead Theatre); Press /4 (Park Theatre); Seven Celebrations (Orange Tree Theatre); Don’t Smoke in Bed (VAULT); Nothing on Earth (UK Tour); In This Smoking Chaos (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Camp Albion (Watermill Theatre/UK Tour); I Know I Know I Know (Southwark Playhouse); The Straw Chair (Finborough Theatre).
As Co-Sound Designer: Get Happy (Pleasance Theatre). As Associate Sound Designer: My Son’s a Queer (But What Can You Do?) (Turbine Theatre); Folk (Hampstead Theatre); Lesbian Space Crime (Soho Theatre); Two Billion Beats (Orange Tree Theatre).
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Alys Whitehead
Set and Costume Designer
Alys Whitehead
Set and Costume Designer
Alys Whitehead is a Scenographer based in London and the Southeast. She likes working with new and abstract writing and is passionate about making work thoughtfully with a particular aim to be as sustainable and waste-free as possible. She is an Associate Designer of Dissident Theatre and NDT Broadgate.
As designer, theatre includes: Sorry We Didn’t Die At Sea (Park Theatre); Snowflakes (Park Theatre); The Retreat (Finborough); Lysistrata (Lyric Hammersmith); SAD (Omnibus); Maddie (Arcola).
As associate designer, theatre includes: Wordplay (Royal Court); Zoe’s Peculiar Journey Through Time (Theatre Rites/Southbank Centre; International Tour); Sea Creatures (Hampstead). As assistant designer, theatre includes: Dixon and Daughters (National Theatre).
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