tell me straight
By Paul Bradshaw, Directed by Imogen Frances
Him’s long line of hookups have one thing in common; they’re all straight. Best friend Dani thinks he needs to fix up and finally find ‘a gay man who actually likes gay men!’ But straight guys are like buses…
A 30-day detox is just what he needs – no booze, no fast food and no men! Buuuuut will distractions in the form of wide-eyed Lee, fuck boy Ryan and oldest friend Matt prove to be derailing? Or will Him finally change his ways and see what is right in front of him?
tell me straight is a fast paced, semi-autobiographical, coming-of-adulthood play that’s a glorious, witty, and provocative exploration of what it means to navigate and embrace our sexuality.
tell me straight is presented in a double bill at Park90 alongside the world premiere of Bradshaw’s second play aggy. Buy tickets for both productions and save 20% on your tickets. The discount will automatically apply once both events are added to your basket.
SH Productions and telling tales in association with Park Theatre.
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Evenings
19.00
Thu & Sat14.30
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Duration
Approx 70 mins
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Tickets
£15 - £20
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Genre
Drama
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Age guidance
16+
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Content warnings
Contains strong language, depictions of violence, scenes of a sexual nature and haze.
Content Warnings
Contains strong language, depictions of violence, scenes of a sexual nature and haze.
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.
In the press
"Honest, stripped back theatre you should be watching"
Pocket Size Theatre
"Bradshaw is a wordsmith"
BOYZ
"Sharp and witty text"
London Pub Theatre
"The characters are so loveable and the narrative so engaging"
The Reviews Hub
"An endearing and wholly relatable exploration of the world"
Broadway World
"An absolute triumph... Deserves to be seen by the masses"
All That Dazzles
"Fabulously funny"
Theatre Weekly
"Bradshaw…makes it all look so effortless"
View From The Outside
"The tone of the piece is balanced superbly"
The Reviews Hub
"Bradshaw has a rare talent"
London Living Large
Cast & Creatives
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Paul Bradshaw
Him
Paul Bradshaw
Him
Paul (he/him) is an award-winning benefit-class actor, writer and director from London. He self-funded his drama school training at Mountview and since graduating has worked across stage,screen, and voiceover including in the original cast of The Clockmaker’s Daughter; A Christmas Carol (Lyceum Theatre – West End) and Holby City (BBC). After the Grenfell fire he felt compelled to tell stories about his experience growing up on a council estate in West London surrounded by immense wealth.
Writing credits: tell me straight (King’s Head Theatre & Chiswick Playhouse – Standing Ovation Award for Best New Play & OFFIE commendation); The Barn (Turbine Theatre – OnComm Nomination); West 11 (Southwark Playhouse); Feel More (The Space & Lion and Unicorn) and Two Cities (Criterion – West End). Short Film: Fizzy.
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Buck Braithwaite
Matt/Ryan/Lee/Pupil
Buck Braithwaite
Matt/Ryan/Lee/Pupil
Buck is best known for playing the title role of Alexander the Great the Netflix series ALEXANDER: THE MAKING OF A GOD. Buck will be making his stage debut in tell me straight.
TV credits include: Masters of the Air (Apple TV, Steven Spielberg); Fair Play (Netflix); Flowers in the Attic: The Origin (Paramount+); Wreck (BBC) and 3 Body Problem (Netflix).
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Jade Anouka (voice)
Dani
Jade Anouka (voice)
Dani
Jade is an actor and creative. She delivered a TED Talk titled Being Black, Being a Woman, Being ‘Other’ and is a published poet and playwright. She wrote, directed and starred in short film Her & Her for the BBC.
Theatre credits include: Otherland (Almeida Theatre); Heart (Minetta Lane Theatre, New York/ Paines Plough/ Edinburgh Fringe/ Brixton House); Cock (West End); Julius Caesar (Ian Charleson Award commendation); Henry IV; The Tempest (Donmar Warehouse/ St Ann’s Warehouse, New York); The Phlebotomist (Hampstead Theatre); Queen Margaret (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Cover My Tracks (The Old Vic); Hamlet; Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe, Ian Charleson Award commendation); CHEF (Edinburgh Fringe/ Soho Theatre); Moon On A Rainbow Shawl (The National Theatre); Twelfth Night (York Theatre Royal).
Film includes: ear for eye (BBC); Last Christmas (Universal); Fisherman’s Friends (Samuel Goldwyns); Fisherman’s Friends: One and All (Samuel Goldwyns); Zebra Girl (19th Street).
Television includes: Dune: Prophecy (HBO); The Sandman (Netflix); Fool Me Once (Netflix); His Dark Materials (BBC); Cleaning Up (ITV); Turn Up Charlie (Idris Elba’s Green Door Pictures); Trauma (NBC); Small Axe (BBC); The Drowning (Channel 5).
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Paul Bradshaw
Writer
Paul Bradshaw
Writer
Paul (he/him) is an award-winning benefit-class actor, writer and director from London. He self-funded his drama school training at Mountview and since graduating has worked across stage,screen, and voiceover including in the original cast of The Clockmaker’s Daughter; A Christmas Carol (Lyceum Theatre – West End) and Holby City (BBC). After the Grenfell fire he felt compelled to tell stories about his experience growing up on a council estate in West London surrounded by immense wealth.
Writing credits: tell me straight (King’s Head Theatre & Chiswick Playhouse – Standing Ovation Award for Best New Play & OFFIE commendation); The Barn (Turbine Theatre – OnComm Nomination); West 11 (Southwark Playhouse); Feel More (The Space & Lion and Unicorn) and Two Cities (Criterion – West End). Short Film: Fizzy.
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Imogen Frances
Director
Imogen Frances
Director
Imogen (they/she) is a London & Devon-based Director, Intimacy Director, Writer, and Actor, passionate about uplifting the stories and voices of marginalised genders, sexualities & identities.
Directing credits: tell me straight (King’s Head Theatre & Chiswick Playhouse – Standing Ovation Award for Best New Play & OFFIE commendation); The Immigrant Play (The Bread & Roses). They’ve directed numerous drama school productions including Yerma; Dogville (Rose Bruford College); The Cherry Orchard and The Seagull (Italia Conti)
Intimacy Director credits: Barrier(s) (Birmingham Rep, Home, Camden People’s Theatre); Outlying Islands (Jermyn Street Theatre); Bellringers (Hampstead Theatre); Cianalas (King’s Head Theatre)
Writing credits: Star Cross’d, Co-written with Tanya Bridgeman (Rose Bruford College Commission), ; (pause before continuing) long-listed for the RSC’s 37 Plays Award. Their latest play WOM(b)AN is currently in development and has received support from The Young Vic and Exeter Northcott’s Reclaim festival.
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Steph Hartland (SH Productions)
Producer
Steph Hartland (SH Productions)
Producer
SH Productions is a London-based theatrical production company run by Producer Steph Hartland. Working across musicals and plays, SHP specialises in shows that explore unique approaches that expand the parameters of traditional musical theatre, and in stories of the human experience. Accessibility is at the heart of Steph’s practice, and is threaded through all SH Production shows. Not only do we explore how to make theatre itself less elitist and more accessible in terms of pricing, subject matter, format and location, we also work with accessibility practitioners wherever possible. This includes closed captioning, BSL and audio descriptions for the benefit of audiences, and access support for the benefit of production teams. It also includes running community driven wraparound activity where possible, such as workshops, fundraiser performances and more.
SHP’s credits include Existential Fish & Dread (The Cockpit Theatre, National Tour); Petticoat Council (Warwick Arts Centre, Regional Tour); When Rachel Met Fiona (The Space, London); Yeast Nation (Southwark Playhouse); Borrowed (R&D, Unity Theatre); Bangers (Arcola Theatre, London); All The Happy Things (Soho Theatre) and Sticky (The Nest @ CFT). She is currently working on a slate of 9 shows in various stages of development, ranging from musicals, plays, installations and live performance pieces.
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Cheng Keng
Lighting Designer
Cheng Keng
Lighting Designer
Cheng Keng is a scenographer, lighting and video designer based in London. He trained at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, completing an MFA in Scenography.
Cheng Keng is a scenographer, lighting and video designer based in London. He trained at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, completing an MFA in Scenography. Theatre credits include: Loop (Theatre503); The Quiz (Cockpit); Poetess (Jack Dome); Testament (Arcola); Bungalow (Theatre503); Riders To the sea (MAST); The Light Princess (The ARC); Going for Gold (Park Theatre); The Lonesome Death of Eng Bunker (Omnibus); Frankenstein and Rain Weaver (Both Cockpit); Grud (Hampstead Theatre); Grills (CPT); Project Atom Boi and So That You May Go Beyond The Sea (All CPT); 1884 (Shoreditch Town Hall); The Littlest Yak (Marlowe studio); Chriskirkpatrickmas (Seven Dials Playhouse); Tiger (Omnibus); 555: Verlaine En Prison; Double Bill At the statue of Venus and La Voix Humaine (Arcola); 1984 (The Cockpit); Let Your Hands Sing In The Silence (Marlowe Theatre); These Words That’ll Linger Like Ghosts Till The Day I Drop Down Dead (The Pleasance); The Retreat and Pennyroyal (Both Finborough); The Zone (Taoyuan art centre); Sankofa: Before the whitewash (Roundhouse); Beauty and the 7 Beasts (Brixton Jamm); Borders (Drayton Arms Theatre); Blue Island 99 (International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival) and Hello World (National Taichung Theatre, Taiwan).
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Eamonn O'Dwyer
Sound Designer
Eamonn O'Dwyer
Sound Designer
Eamonn is an award-winning composer and sound designer of Caribbean-Irish origin. His work spans genres from live orchestral to electronica and contemporary musical theatre, and he has worked as an instrumentalist, composer, lyricist and sound designer in theatres all over the world. He is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, and the winner of the 2025 Black British Theatre Award for Sound Design.
His theatre credits include: Troilus & Cressida (Shakespeare’s Globe); All The Happy Things (Soho); Spitfire Girls (MAST); The Koala Who Could (Unicorn); Hey! Christmas Tree (Minerva, Chichester); Never Let Me Go (Rose, Kingston); The History Boys (Bath Theatre Royal); The Lion Inside (Rose, Kingston); Guy Fawkes (York Theatre Royal); Brief Encounter (Watermill); Lady Chatterley’s Lover (UK Tour); Twelfth Night and Henry V (Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre, York); It Never Happened (ArtsEd); Mrs Beeton Says… (Bristol Old Vic Theatre School); The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (NYMT, The Other Palace); The Comedy of Errors, Romeo & Juliet and Julius Caesar Re-imagined (RSC, Swan); Flesh & Bone (National Theatre Studio); Grimm Tales and Peter Pan (Chichester Festival Theatre); Jeeves & Wooster (Barn, Cirencester); Stones in His Pockets (Dukes, Lancaster); The Glass Menagerie (Theatre Chipping Norton). He is a frequent musical collaborator at the Rose Theatre in Kingston, where he has written original songs and scores for Beauty & The Beast; The Snow Queen; Hansel & Gretel; The Wind in the Willows; The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe; A Christmas Carol; Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Arabian Nights.
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Damien Stanton
Set & Costume Designer
Damien Stanton
Set & Costume Designer
Damien is a London-based designer working across performance, events, installations and experiences.
He was Set Designer on Brainiac Live at the Marylebone Theatre, which won the 2025 Olivier Award for Best Family Show.
Recent design credits include: Jamie Allan’s Amaze (New World Stages, Off-Broadway & Criterion Theatre, West End); Invasive Species (King’s Head Theatre); Bury The Hatchet (Pleasance Queen Dome); Amélie (ArtsEd); Machinal (Mountview); Concord Floral and Borders of Paradise (LAMDA); Transport Explorers (London Transport Museum); The Acts (Barbican); Wonderland in Alice (Octagon Theatre); Brainiac Live (Marylebone Theatre & Dubai Opera House); the Spectrum Roundel Installation (Transport for London); Stephen Mulhern – Beyond Belief (UK Tour); Paddington™ LoComotion (Blenheim Palace) and Peter Rabbit™ Easter Adventure (Covent Garden).
Associate design credits include The Yellow Wallpaper (Sadler’s Wells & Czech National Theatre) and Lisbon Floor (Copenhagen Opera Festival).
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Carrie Croft
Production Manager
Carrie Croft
Production Manager
Carrie is a Production Manager, Producer and General Manager, based in London working in both off-West End and West End theatres. She completed the MA Collaborative Theatre Production and Design course at Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Distinction in 2022.
Recent Theatre Productions include: Jack and the Beanstalk, Invasive Species and The Pitchfork Disney (Kings Head Theatre); Die Rheinnixen (Battersea Arts Centre) Lost Watches and Conversations After Sex (Park Theatre); Stalled (Kings Head Theatre); 10 Nights (National Tour); Cinderella (Queens Theatre Hornchurch); Bombay Superstars (West end and Tour); Echo and Narcissus and Deep Blue Sea (Theatre Royal Bath, Ustinov); Julie: The Musical (The Other Palace); Priscilla the Party (West End); Foam (Finborough Theatre); Othello (Riverside Studios); Birthright (Finborough Theatre); Disruption and Shape of Things (Park Theatre); Rocky Horror 50th Anniversary Gala (West End); Fucking Men (Waterloo East); Breeding (Kings Head Theatre); Under the Black Rock (Arcola Theatre); Sus (Park90, Park Theatre).
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