ROT. HUSK. LOSER.
By Simon Castle & Somebody Jones. Prologue & epilogue by Nusrath Tapadar
From writers Simon Castle & Somebody Jones, ROT. HUSK. LOSER. is a unique collaboration that brings together two 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. 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, these short plays offer a confronting reflection on who we are and the structures that hold us in place.
Mouth Studio and Grey Castle Productions 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 - £25
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Genre
Drama
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Content warnings
Contains strong language references to drug taking and substance abuse. Click to read more.
Content Warnings
Contains strong language references to drug taking and substance abuse. Click to read more.
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.
Cast & Creatives
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Corinna Brown
Alondra & Maz
Corinna Brown
Alondra & Maz
Film/TV Credits include: Heartstopper, Heartstopper Forever; SupaCell (Netflix); The Summer I Turned Pretty (Amazon); Vikings: Valhalla (Netflix); Doctors (BBC); Snow White (Disney). Stage Credits include: Noughts and Crosses (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Coppelia (New Vic Theatre); Sleeping Beauty (Hackney Empire).
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Kemi Awoderu
Essie & Skylar
Kemi Awoderu
Essie & Skylar
Film/TV Credits include: Death on the Nile (Twentieth Century Fox); Professor T (ITV); The Third Day (HBO / Sky Arts). Stage Credits include: Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Sonia Friedman Productions / Netflix); Jerusalem (Apollo Theatre); Arms and the Man (Orange Tree Theatre); Living Newspaper (Royal Court).
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Shadrach Agozino
Officer/Guard & Lee
Shadrach Agozino
Officer/Guard & Lee
Film/TV Credits include: Fast X (Universal Pictures); Murder in Provence (ITV); Endeavour (ITV); Killing Boris Johnson (NFTS – Cannes La Cinef nominee); Trouble (NFTS – Student Academy Award nominee; BFI London Film Festival). Stage Credits include: Anthem Live (Almeida Theatre); Key Words (Lyric Hammersmith Theatre).
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Cameron Tharmaratnam
Tomi & Raphi
Cameron Tharmaratnam
Tomi & Raphi
Film/TV Credits include: Doctors; Hope Street (BBC); Breathtaking (ITV) Stage Credits include: Three Sisters (Gaiety Theatre); The Dance (Theatre503); A Walk Is Not Just A Walk (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); The Beau Queen of The Leenane (Theatre by The Lake).
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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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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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Debbie Duru
Costume & Set Designer
Debbie Duru
Costume & Set Designer
Credits include: Fatherland at Hampstead Theatre; woman.life.song at Birmingham Opera; A Christmas Carol at Northern Stage; Bright Places at Birmingham Rep; How I learned to Swim at Roundabout/Brixton house; Re:Discover Festival for Streetwise Opera; Beneatha’s Place at the Young Vic; Run Rebel at Mercury/Pilot theatre; Ravenscourt at Hampstead Theatre; A White Card at Northern Stage; Two Billion Beats at the Orange tree; A Song Project at the Royal Court; . . .cake at Theatre Peckham and Josephine at Theatre Royal Bath.
Costume designer credits include – Tellus for Dickson Mbi Company; Now I See at Stratford East; Twice Born for Scottish Ballet; Romeo & Juliet at the Almeida and Alice in Wonderland at Brixton house.
As an Associate designer she has worked on Get Up Stand Up at the Lyric Soho, Dick Whittington at the National Theatre and Mandela at the Young Vic.
She was the winner of the Black British Theatre awards for Theatre Design 2023
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Composer and Sound Designer
Isaac Stuart
Composer and Sound Designer
Isaac Stuart
Isaac Stuart is a Singer-Songwriter, Composer & Sound Designer who has amassed over 3 million streams worldwide and has regular support at national radio, including BBC Radio 1 & Radio 2. Isaac’s career continues to grow with highlights including performing alongside Tom Walker & David Gray on a UK arena tour, supporting Snow Patrol at The London Palladium, playing LIVE on Graham Norton’s Radio Show and 3 songs featuring on hit ITV2 show, Love Island.
Sound Design & Composition credits include: TWO TRIBES (Leeds Playhouse); SENTENCE. (The Other Palace); HOUSEWERK (Arcola Theatre); WOLAB SHOWCASE (Bunker Theatre) and THE COLLECTOR OF TEARS (Old Fire Station Oxford).
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Holly Stevens
Assistant Director
Holly Stevens
Assistant Director
Holly is a writer and director for the stage and screen. Since graduating from London Film Academy as the recipient of their prestigious Emerging Filmmaker Award, Holly has written, directed and produced several short films. More recently, she turned her attention to the theatre, and in 2024 directed Samuel Goldfinch’s ‘Pimms and Piety’ at both the Etcetera and Union Theatres. She also assistant directed Bric a Brac Theatre’s ‘Glass Ceiling Beneath the Stars’, which had a hugely successful run at the Pleasance Dome. In 2025, she participated in the Omnibus Theatre’s playwriting course and developed her debut play ‘Myriad’. ‘Myriad’ was at Park Theatre in November by Ed McVey and Jenny Rainsford. She is now developing her next project, ‘Duel’.
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Grey Castle Productions
Associate Producer
Grey Castle Productions
Associate Producer
Grey Castle Productions is a new-writing company dedicated to platforming queer stories, founded by Simon Castle. Their debut production, ‘Is the WiFi Good in Hell?’ (Underbelly) was a finalist for an Off West End Award, named a Playbill Pick of the Fringe and was selected for a creative roundtable with Secretary of State for Culture, Lisa Nandy. Their play ‘lenny.’ (Omnibus Theatre) was nominated for 6 Fringe Theatre awards. They are currently developing a new play ‘DYBBUK’ (artsdepot) with of their artists in residence. GCP also served as associate producer on ‘Dead Dad Show’ (Soho Theatre/UK Tour) and currently on ‘ROT. HUSK. LOSER.’ (Park Theatre). As a freelance producer, Simon has produced on ‘Positive’ (Southwark Playhouse) and ‘All of Them, Dead’ (UK Tour). Grey Castle Productions continues to collaborate with emerging queer creatives to deliver ambitious new theatre that centres LGBTQIA+ identity and celebrates underrepresented voices.
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