Hir
By Taylor Mac. Directed by Steven Kunis.
Emmy and Golden Globe award winner, and Academy Award nominee Felicity Huffman (Desperate Housewives, Transamerica) makes her UK stage debut as the radical matriarch Paige in this disarmingly funny and strikingly original comedy. Named ‘one of the most exciting theatre artists of our time’ by Time Out New York, Pulitzer and Tony-nominee Taylor Mac explodes the dysfunctional family drama and reinvents it for our times.
Isaac, the prodigal son, returns from a war zone to discover his family home has been transformed by a domestic revolution. The patriarchy has fallen, and Paige has been liberated from an oppressive marriage. Enlisting her newly-out transgender teenager as an ally, Paige is now on a crusade to tear apart the old regimes. But as they soon realise, annihilating the past doesn’t always free you from it.
In a revival by critically-acclaimed director Steven Kunis, Hir grapples with a family in flux, as they attempt to build a brave new world out of the pieces of the old.
David Adkin and RJG Productions in association with Midnight Theatricals and Park Theatre
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Evenings
19.30
Thu & Sat15.00
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Content warnings
Contains profanity, references to sex, sexuality, domestic violence, rape, drug abuse and physical violence.
Content Warnings
Contains profanity, references to sex, sexuality, domestic violence, rape, drug abuse and physical violence.
This production contains strong profanity throughout, along with discussions of sex, sexuality, and descriptions and visual evidence of domestic violence, rape and drug abuse. There are moments of physical violence throughout the play.
This production also contains haze, flashing or strobing lights, loud noises and complete darkness.
In the Press
In the Press
"Brash, relevant, hilarious, surprising and utterly huma"
City A.M
"challenging, confronting and very funny"
The Stage
"remorselessly gripping production"
The Times
"Loud, proud, and eventually deeply affecting"
All That Dazzles
Cast & Creatives
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Felicity Huffman (she / her)
Paige
Felicity Huffman (she / her)
Paige
Felicity Huffman earned an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Transamerica, as well as a Golden Globe Award and Independent Spirit Award for the same role. Huffman has also been honored with an Emmy and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
Huffman can be seen on the ABC series American Crime for which she was nominated for a Best Actress Emmy and Golden Globe for her portrayal of Barb Hanlon in the premiere season, Leslie Graham in the second season and Jeanette Hesby in the third season.
She can also be seen in Ava Duverney’s When They See Us on Netflix, Otherhood as well as the independent movie, Tammy’s Always Dying. Huffman is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company, an off-Broadway theater in New York City.
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Steffan Cennydd (him / he)
Isaac
Steffan Cennydd (him / he)
Isaac
Steffan Cennydd graduated from Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He was awarded Guildhall’s Gold Medal for Acting and the Richard Burton Memorial Award.
Theatre credits include: The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare’s Globe/World Tour); Under Milk Wood (Watermill Theatre); The Melting Pot (Finborough Theatre).
Film credits include: Last Summer, Feast, Sweetheart.
Television credits include: The Pembrokeshire Murders, Yr Amguedffa, Hidden, Enid A Lucy, Criminal Record.
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Thalia Dudek (they / them)
Max
Thalia Dudek (they / them)
Max
Thalía holds a double degree in Philosophy and Literature, as well being a founder of the successful Australian-based Three Fates Theatre Company.
Theatre credits include: Confessions (National Theatre), Gundog (Three Fates Theatre Company).
Film credits include: High Grades (Cry Baby Films), Better Man (Roadshow Films).
Thalía has a deep passion for bringing to life the human stories that live in the intersection of philosophy, politics and language.
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Simon Startin (he / him)
Arnold
Simon Startin (he / him)
Arnold
Theatre credits include: The Tempest (Royal Shakespeare Company); Afterlife, The Visit (National Theatre); Romeo and Juliet, Richard III (Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre/Blenheim Palace); Ralegh: The Treason Trial (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Plague (Arcola Theatre); The Government Inspector (Birmingham Rep); Islands (The Bush Theatre/Edinburgh Festival); Beyond Midnight (Trestle Theatre Company); Sherlock Holmes in Trouble (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Tempest (Theatre Royal Bury St. Edmunds/Theatre Setup); Revolting (which he also wrote for Jacksons Lane/The Ministry of Clowns); Pericles, Spangleguts, Tales From The Arabian Nights (London Bubble); The Fly (Oldham Coliseum); Now You Know (Hampstead Theatre); Hamlet, Bartleby (Red Shift); Tartuffe (Mappa Mundi); Fanny Hill (Duke’s Theatre, Lancaster); Waiting For Godot (Tottering Bipeds); The Fall of the House of Usher, Volpone, Into The Mystic, UBU (Graeae); Collateral Damage, Subterranean (Traverse Theatre); The Changeling (Battersea Arts Centre).
Film credits include: Battery (BBC); Keen Eddie (Paramount); Preserve (Channel Four).
Television credits include: The Musketeers, Doctors, Mapp and Lucia, Holby City, Tag, Criminal Justice, Everytime I Look At You, Dunkirk, Are You Looking At Me?, Rhyming Criplets (BBC)
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Matthew Blaney (he / him)
Understudy Isaac / Arnold
Matthew Blaney (he / him)
Understudy Isaac / Arnold
Matthew trained at RADA. Theatre credits include: Not Now (Finborough Theatre); Under the Black Rock (Arcola Theatre); Blackout (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); and The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Noel Coward Theatre). Feature Film credits include: Belfast (Focus Features).
Audio Recording credits include: Say Nothing (Amazon Audible). Awards include: Spotlight Award Nominee (2017) and Offie Lead Performance Nominee (2023).
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Lott Lee (he / him)
Understudy Max
Lott Lee (he / him)
Understudy Max
Lott is a trans masc actor and comedian who recently graduated from The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts with a BA in Acting (Screen and Digital).
During his training, he had various opportunities to collaborate with industry professionals and was selected to take part in a comedy workshop with Rowan Atkinson. His most recent credits include Clark in X (Liverpool Everyman). Hir marks his professional debut.
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Taylor Mac
Writer
Taylor Mac
Writer
Taylor Mac is an actor, playwright, performance artist, director, producer, and singer-songwriter. Judy (Taylor’s preferred pronoun but any will do) is a MacArthur “genius”, the first (and to date only) American to receive the International Ibsen Award, a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, a Tony nominee for Best Play, and the recipient of the Kennedy Prize, the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a Guggenheim, a Drama League Award, a NY Drama Critics Circle Award, two Obie’s, and two Bessies.
Mac is the librettist of Bark of Millions and The Hang (both with music by Matt Ray); and the author of the plays Joy and Pandemic; Gary, A Sequel to Titus Andronicus; Hir; The Walk Across America for Mother Earth; The Lily’s Revenge; and the children’s play The Fre; among many others. Mac’s performance art concert A 24-Decade History of Popular Music may be seen in a concert-doc version directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (streaming on Max).
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Steven Kunis
Director
Steven Kunis
Director
Steven Kunis is a Greek-American director based in London. He was nominated for Best Director of a Play at the Off West End Awards for the UK Premiere of Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men (Southwark Playhouse), which was named by The Independent as one of the UK’s top ten theatre events of 2021 (★★★★ Evening Standard, ★★★★ The Guardian, ★★★★The Times).
Recently, Steven directed the critically acclaimed revival of Joe DiPietro’s F**king Men, which extended three times and sold out 96 performances over ten weeks at London’s Waterloo East Theatre. He also directed the UK premiere of Tanya Barfield’s Bright Half Life (King’s Head Theatre), and the World Premiere of Olivier Award-nominee Shaun Mckenna’s Rocky Road (Jermyn Street Theatre), the latter of which was listed by The Guardian among the top online theatre experiences of UK lockdown.
Other directing credits include the UK Debut of The Refugee Orchestra Project at the London Symphony Orchestra’s St Luke’s venue, and the acclaimed three-month run of S. Asher Gelman’s Afterglow (Waterloo East), for which Steven was again nominated Best Director at the Off West End Awards.
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Ceci Calf
Set and Costume Designer
Ceci Calf
Set and Costume Designer
Ceci is a set and costume designer based in London. She trained at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Set and Costume design credits include: Farm Hall (Jermyn Street/Theatre Royal Bath/UK Tour); The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas, A Skull In Connemara (Dailes Teātris Riga, Latvia); Othello (Watermill Theatre); Love & Information (Clapham Omnibus); Breeding (Kings Head); Under The Black Rock (Arcola); Orlando (Jermyn Street); Warrior Queens (Sadler’s Wells); Tapped (Theatre503/UK Tour); To Have And To Hold (The Hope Theatre); Rocky Road (Jermyn Street/Stream.Theatre); One Million Tiny Plays About Britain (Jermyn Street, Watermill Theatre); Five Green Bottles, Tithonus R&D (Sherman Theatre); Cheer and Mydidae (The Other Room); Not Now (Nominated for Standing Ovation Award), Yes So I Said Yes (Winner of Standing Ovation Award: Best Production); How To Survive An Apocalypse, Not Quite Jerusalem and The Wind of Heaven (Winner of Standing Ovation award: Best Rediscovery/Adaptation- Finborough); Twelfth Night (Kew Gardens); The Cut (LAMDA/Lion And Unicorn); Waiting for Anya and The Mozart Question (Barn Theatre, Cirencester) and Yellow Moon (LAMDA).
Associate Design credits include: Macbeth (Site Specific, Liverpool/Edinburgh/London/Washington); Anything Is Possible If You Think About It Hard Enough (Southwark Playhouse).
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Ryan Joseph Stafford
Lighting Designer
Ryan Joseph Stafford
Lighting Designer
Ryan trained at Rose Bruford College, graduating with a First Class BA Honours Degree in Lighting Design.
In 2019, Ryan received the ‘Michael Northern Award for Excellence in Lighting Design’ from the Association of Lighting Designers.
Theatre credits include: Vortex (Russell Maliphant Dance Company); Shades of Blue (Sadler’s Wells/Matsena Productions/BBC Arts); Natalia Osipova: Force of Nature (Bloom Dance Project); Grimeboy (Birmingham Rep); Dance for Ukraine (London Coliseum); Codi (National Dance Company of Wales); Young Associates: Mixed Bill (Sadler’s Wells); Isla (Theatr Clwyd & Royal Court); Greater than Lion (Kennedy Muntanga Dance Theatre, Messums); Generation Goldfish (Bayerisches Staatsballett, Munich); NYDC X Russell Maliphant (Sadler’s Wells); Left from Write (Norwegian National Ballet II/Linbury/Royal Opera House); Together, Not the Same (Sadler’s Wells); Easy Virtue, Robin Hood (Watermill Theatre); The Island (Fio/UK tour); The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives (Elufowoju, Jr. Ensemble, Arcola Theatre).
He is an Associate Artist of Red Oak Theatre Company and Bohemian Theatre Company.
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Roly Botha
Sound Designer and Composer
Roly Botha
Sound Designer and Composer
Roly is a composer and sound designer, and is an Associate Artist of The PappyShow.
Theatre includes: Dear Young Monster (Bristol Old Vic); Hir (Park Theatre); Gwyneth Goes Skiing (Pleasance); Truth & Tails (Chichester Festival Theatre); Tambo & Bones (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Shut Up, I’m Dreaming (National Theatre/School’s Tour); The Ultimate Pickle, A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain, Half Empty Glasses (Paines Plough); Orlando (Jermyn Street); BOYS (Barbican, Southbank Centre, touring); Coming To England (Birmingham Rep); WILD (Unicorn); Blowhole (Soho); Milk & Gall (Theatre503); Brother (Southwark Playhouse); and Warheads (Park Theatre – Olivier Nominated).
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BECKY PARIS
Casting Director
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Claire Llewellyn for RC-Annie
Fight Director
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Natasha Harrison
Movement Consultant
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Shereen Ibrahim
Vocal Coach
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Matilda Maguire
Design Assistant
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Isobel Pellow
Costume Supervisor
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Zoe Richie
Associate Lighting Designer
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Kat Ellis
Production Manager
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Lauren Wedgeworth
Assistant Stage Manager
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Lauryn Jenkins
Assistant Stage Manager
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