Outpatient
By Harriet Madeley, Directed by Madelaine Moore
Fresh from its award-winning run at the Edinburgh Festival, Crowded Room and writer-performer Harriet Madeley are bringing Outpatient to Park Theatre: an explosive, solo autobiographical comedy.
Outpatient follows Olive, a self-obsessed entertainment journalist who sets out to make her name interviewing dying people, only to discover that she is also living on borrowed time…
No one (including Olive) knows how to handle this bombshell. Her doctor has nothing. Her girlfriend wants to cure her with herbs. And her parents would really rather not talk about it.
Olive resolves to embrace what little time she has left. She’ll sever all ties with her girlfriend, throw herself into her work, and audition for a reality singing competition – all in the name of freedom and making an impact.But is this freedom? It’s not clear.
Hailed as a ‘masterclass in comedic writing’ (Fringe Review), Outpatient won Summerhall’s Lustrum Award for Unforgettable Theatre at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Outpatient was originally developed with Reading Rep Theatre before being presented at the Edinburgh Festival, Reading Rep Theatre, The Lowry and Teater Katapult in Denmark.
Crowded Room in association with Park Theatre.
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Evenings
19:00
Thu & Sat15:15
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Duration
Approx 1 hour and 10 mins
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Tickets
£22
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Genre
Drama
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Content warnings
This production contains discussion of illness.
Content Warnings
This production contains discussion of illness.
Also contains strong language and references to suicide.
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In the press
"Devilishly entertaining"
The Stage
"Funny, heartbreaking and deeply thought-provoking"
Theatre & Tonic
"Theatre at its most vital"
LondonTheatre1
"Laugh out loud funny, razor sharp, and unflinchingly honest"
The Live Review
"Who knew a show about dying could be so much fun?"
The Queer GB
"Comically revelatory"
The Reviews Hub
"An astonishing one hander"
The Spy in the Stalls
"Superb"
Everything Theatre
"A masterclass in comedic writing"
Fringe Review
"An intelligent, wryly funny piece"
Lyn Gardner
Cast and creatives
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Harriet Madeley
Olive
Harriet Madeley
Olive
Harriet is a writer, producer and performer represented by Independent Talent. She co-runs Crowded Room with Mark Knightley, with whom she has performed at Battersea Arts Centre, Soho Theatre and Shoreditch Town Hall, and been shortlisted for the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award at the Barbican. Harriet has a particular interest in true stories… but she also makes things up. Her debut play The Listening Room transferred from the Old Red Lion to Stratford East and has since been performed at the National Theatre, The Lowry, Theatre Clwyd, Northern Stage and in schools, prisons & psychiatric institutions across the UK; a radio adaptation was nominated for an ARIA in 2020. Colours (Soho Theatre); Echoes (a Public Health England commission for prisons); a queer adaptation of Hedda Gabler for Reading Rep, and Edith (The Lowry/Theatr Clwyd). Harriet often collaborates with National Prison Radio and BBC Radio 4; her most recent radio drama The Other Tchaikovsky was shortlisted for a BBC Audio Drama Award in 2022. Harriet is currently developing a number of new projects for stage, screen and radio. Outpatient is her first solo show. Other recent theatre work includes The
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Madelaine Moore
Director
Madelaine Moore
Director
Madelaine is an award-winning stage and screen director. Her work is informed by her interest in disrupting traditional gendered narratives, tackling big ideas through a feminist lens and subverting common tropes. Theatre credits include: Algorithms (Park Theatre); Outpatient (Summerhall Lustrum Award Winner); Santi & Naz (Soho Theatre & UK tour); Son Of A Bitch (Fringe First Award Winner); Evelyn (Southwark Playhouse); Ladykiller (Tour/Brits Off Broadway) and Second Person Narrative (Arcola). Madelaine works in two main areas: professional theatre and participatory settings with non-professionals and young people, particularly within the male prison estate.
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Bella Kear
Sound Designer
Bella Kear
Sound Designer
Bella graduated LAMDA in July 2021 with a First-Class Honours Degree in Production and Technical Arts. Credits as a Sounds Designer include: Invisible, Clutch, Elephant and, This Kola Nut Does not Speak English (The Bush); Whose Planet Are You On? (The Old Vic); The Animal Kingdom (The Hampstead); The Night Woman (The Other Palace); First Love is the Revolution (E15); The Faith Machine (RADA); Pelican Daughters and Education, Education, Education (ArtsEd) and Darling (The Hope). Credits as an Associate Sound Designer include: A Place For We (Park Theatre); Mnemonic (National Theatre); Purple Snowflakes (Royal Court) and Blue/ Orange (Theatre Royal Bath).
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Megan Lucas
Lighting and Projection Designer
Megan Lucas
Lighting and Projection Designer
Megan Lucas is a lighting designer and technician, set designer and stage manager. She works for Royal & Derngate as a lighting technician and as a freelancer across several theatrical productions. Recently Megan has been engaged as a Lighting Designer for the Barbican, Lighting Designer for Royal & Derngate Musical Company and has developed and programmed the hard-of-hearing captioning system currently in use at Royal & Derngate, which was premiered at the Vaudeville Theatre in the West End. Recent credits include: Son Of A Bitch and Lynn Faces (Summerhall). She is also a freelance Architectural Designer and the Chair and co-founder of the Northampton Arts Lab.
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Crowded Room
Producers
Crowded Room
Producers
Crowded Room is an award-winning theatre company run by Mark Knightley and Harriet Madeley, specialising in true stories that get people talking. Previous productions include The Listening Room (winner of the Chris Donovan Trust Award, Offie-nominated); 2030 (commissioned by Collusion & shortlisted for the Barbican’s Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award); Sentinels (Kings College London & Somerset House); La Lucha (Manchester Lift Off Festival, London Migration Film Festival, Battersea Arts Centre); The Colours (Soho Theatre); The Colours of Loss (the Good Grief Festival); ECHOES (a prison tour commissioned by Public Health England) & EDITH (The Lowry/Theatr Clwyd).
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