The Silence and the Noise
By Tom Powell, Directed by George Turvey
★★★★ ‘A delicate love story [of] tenderness and tragedy.’ The Guardian
Daize has a sharp tongue and a sharper blade. Ben has killer trainers and not much else. She’s determined to protect her mum from his drug-dealing boss – but can two neglected teenagers change their destinies?
Soon these natural enemies start to find something in each other no adult has ever given them.
Winner of the 2021 Papatango Prize from over 1,400 scripts, Tom Powell’s extraordinary play beautifully portrays two young people finding hope together.
Papatango Theatre Company and Pentabus Theatre in association with Park Theatre.
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Evenings
19.00
Thu & Sat16.00
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Duration
70 minutes
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Tickets
£15 - £18
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Genre
Drama
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Age guidance
13+
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Content warnings
References to drug use, neglect and unseen violence.
"A modest masterpiece."
The Stage
"A delicate love story [of] tenderness and tragedy"
The Guardian
"A perfect storm"
The Evening Standard on Papatango and Park Theatre’s The Meat Kings! (Inc.) Of Brooklyn Heights
"Every year Papatango comes up with a bit of a cracker."
Michael Billington, The Guardian
"One of British theatre’s unsung treasures"
The Guardian on Pentabus
"One of the UK’s foremost new-writing companies"
The Stage on Pentabus
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Tom Powell
Writer
Tom Powell
Writer
Tom Powell won the 2021 Papatango New Writing Prize. He was the 2020/21 CRF Writer-in-Residence at Pentabus, where he is now an Associate Artist. Tom was selected for the BBC Studios Writers Academy 2019/20, and his first short as writer/director is currently in post-production. Tom has completed a residency at the National Theatre’s Immersive Storytelling Studio, and his narrative virtual reality piece Underneath the Forest is in development, with support from the RSC and the Centre for Creative and Immersive Extended Realities.
Following the death of his brother, Antony Irvin, Tom has become a campaigner for humane drugs policy.
Theatre includes Surfacing (VAULT Festival and UK Tour, Off West End Award Finalist), The Silence and the Noise (Papatango audio production UK tour, Pentabus/Rural Media digital production streamed and screened in London, Ludlow, and Milan, winner of Off West End Award for Best Online Production and Broadstairs International Film Festival Best Film), Little Echoes (Hope Theatre, Off West End Award nominated), and I Dare You (UK Tour, shortlisted for Soho Theatre Young Writers Award).
TV includes Eastenders, Holby City and original work in development with Clerkenwell Films.
Radio includes Love Beyond the Zoo (BBC Radio 4X).
His work is published by Methuen and Nick Hern Books, and has been translated into Polish and Korean.
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George Turvey
Director
George Turvey
Director
George co-founded Papatango in 2007 and became sole Artistic Director in 2013. He has been awarded the Genesis Foundation Prize and named in The Stage 25. He has dramaturged all of Papatango’s productions, including the Olivier Award-winning Old Bridge and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winning The Meat Kings! (Inc.) Of Brooklyn Heights.
Theatre direction for Papatango includes The Meat Kings! (Inc.) Of Brooklyn Heights (Park Theatre, nominated for 3 OffWestEnd Awards); The Watch House (UK tour); Some Demon (Arcola Theatre/Bristol Old Vic, nominated for 4 OffWestEnd Awards including Best Director); Shook (Southwark Playhouse/UK tour, nominated for 7 OffWestEnd Awards including Best Director and Best Production; also broadcast on Sky Arts); Here (Southwark Playhouse); Hanna (Arcola Theatre/UK tour); The Annihilation of Jessie Leadbeater (ALRA); After Independence, winner of the Alfred Fagon Audience Award (Arcola Theatre/BBC Radio 4); Leopoldville (Tristan Bates Theatre) and Angel (Pleasance London/Tristan Bates Theatre).
Film direction for Papatango includes Heathenland.
Audio direction for Papatango includes The Silence and The Noise.
George trained as a director on the National Theatre Studio Directors’ course and as an actor at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts. He has appeared on stage and screen throughout the UK and internationally, including the lead roles in the world première of Arthur Miller’s No Villain (Old Red Lion Theatre/West End) and Batman Live World Arena Tour. He is co-author of Being APlaywright: A Career Guide For Writers.
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Stella Backman
Set & Costume Designer
Stella Backman
Set & Costume Designer
Stella’s work spans plays, live music, musicals, family shows, new writing, accessible work, physical theatre, pantomime and gig-theatre.
Selected theatre includes Caroline: A New Musical (East Anglian Consortium/UK tour), Sensory Cinders (@sohoplace/West End), Whodunnit (Unrehearsed) 4 (Park Theatre), Lil.Miss.Lady (Highrise/UK tour), Perfect Show for Rachel (ZooCo/UK tour), The Turn of the Screw (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch), Countess Dracula (UK tour), and Bossy (Lyric Hammersmith).
Selected credits within live music include Sleep Token: Even in Arcadia (Download Headliners/US Arena Tour), Texas: The Very Best of Texas (UK Arena Tour), mgk (Vans Warped Tour) and James Arthur (O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire). -
Simon Cole
Lighting Designer
Simon Cole
Lighting Designer
Si works across multiple art forms, creating and collaborating for theatre, dance, contemporary art installations and outdoor events.
Recent theatre includes Noughts and Crosses, Run Rebel and A Song For Ella Grey (Pilot Theatre); Carriage (ReSound Theatre); The Harvest (Fertile Ground Dance); Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area (Scott Turnbull Presents); Penguin (Hamzeh Al-Hussien & Amy Golding); Tiny Fragments of Beautiful Light (Alison Davies); The Watch House (Papatango); Raven (Northern Stage) andAll White Everything But Me (Live Theatre & Alphabetti Theatre).
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Asaf Zohar
Composer & Sound Designer
Asaf Zohar
Composer & Sound Designer
Asaf trained at the Royal College of Music.
Theatre includes Ballet Shoes and The Estate (National Theatre); Measure for Measure (RSC); Macbeth (UK & international tours); God of Carnage (Lyric Hammersmith); The Meat Kings! (Inc.) of Brooklyn Heights, Some Demon, Here and The Silence and the Noise (Papatango); Sessions and Whitewash (Soho Theatre); Peter Pan Reimagined (Birmingham Rep); Farewell Mister Haffman, The Shape of Things and Disruption (Park Theatre); My Mother’s Funeral: The Show (UK tour); Dennis of Penge (Guildhall School of Music and Drama/Ovalhouse/Albany Deptford); Sorry, You’re Not A Winner (Bristol Old Vic/Theatre Royal, Plymouth); Nanny (Bristol Old Vic); Captain Amazing, The Bleeding Tree, The Bit-Players and Romeo and Juliet (Southwark Playhouse); Waiting for Anya (Barn Theatre); Bright Half Life (King’s Head Theatre); Wild Country (Camden People’s Theatre); The Goose Who Flew (Half Moon Theatre) and The Shadowpunk Revolutions (Edinburgh Festival).
Television includes Reggie Yates: Extreme Russia; Reggie Yates: Race Riots USA; Reggie Yates: Extreme UK; Reggie Yates: Extreme South Africa and Dispatches: Taliban Child Fighters, in addition to in-house work for Virgin Media and various media companies.
His film work has been shown at Cannes, BAFTA, Edinburgh and Encounters festivals.
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