APPLE

About Apple

APPLE charts the story of Rosemary Clark as she goes on a journey of self-discovery from slut-drops in the Trocadero back to rural Jamaica. It's a darkly comic and introspective look at a less-than-rosy mother and daughter relationship. Rosemary's desperate to have a moment of truth and connection and decides her mother's wedding day is the perfect occasion.

APPLE is written and performed by Cheryl Ndione and directed by Simone Watson.

Trailer

Interviews with the Creatives

Cheryl Ndione (Writer and Performer)

CHERYL NDIONE is Founder and Executive Producer of youth theatre company, Purple Moon Drama. She is a writer, producer, actor and a trained facilitator.

Purple Moon Drama produce an annual show for young audiences. Past productions include a sold-out run of Malorie Blackman’s Noughts and Crosses at The Brady Arts Centre in 2016, a tour of Iman Quershi’s play, Side Effects, in 2017 (Iman went on to win the Papatango Writing Prize the following year), and Graveyard Gang written by Lakesha Arie-Angelo, Associate Director at Soho Theatre, in 2018. The play was seen by over 900 young people as part of a school tour. Jollof Wars by Gail Egbeson toured to schools in 2019 and is at The Vaults this year.

Cheryl’s written work has gone up at Arcola Theatre, Park Theatre and The Space. Acting credits include the female lead, ‘Yassa’, in Alassane Sy’s short film ‘Fallou', which won Gold at the Carthage Film Festival in 2017. She toured as ‘Elsie’ in Matilda Ibini’s 2016 play, Muscovado.

Simone Watson (Director)

SIMONE WATSON is a Theatre Director, creative and corporate Trainer/ facilitator and the Founder and Director of social enterprise, Dramatic Momentum.

Over the last 14 years, Simone has directed a number of shows on the London Fringe, whilst developing and delivering a number of creative and educational courses, programmes and workshops for the Old Vic Theatre, Southwark Playhouse, Education Consultancy Edcoms, Nitro Theatre (now known as Nitro Beat), Chain Reaction Theatre Company, Freshwater Theatre, Lewisham Youth Theatre – STEP UP, Theatre Peckham, Diverse Voices, TCW Ltd, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, London Borough Newham, and the London Borough of Haringey, as well as working with young people creatively in PRU's and special education provisions across London.

When she isn't working with young people she holds the post of Head of Events and Corporate Partnerships at Theatre Peckham. Simone also sits on the board of trustees for the award winning Chain Reaction Theatre Company, Purple Moon Drama and is a newly qualified Corporate Performance Coach and Associate at Maynard Leigh Associates.

Creatives

Writer/Performer: Cheryl Ndione

Director: Simone Watson

Costume and Set: Sandra Falase

Sound: Francis Botu

Lighting: Inci Guleryuz

Performances

Studio, VAULT Festival
Leake Street
London SE1 7NN

21 February, 18:00
22 February, 15:00
22 February, 18:00

60 Minutes, No Interval

Get in Touch

To book press tickets for APPLE at the VAULT Festival.

Email:
hello@theupsetters.co.uk
press@vaultfestival.com  

To arrange interviews or media engagements.

Email:
marcus@theupsetters.co.uk

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Support

APPLE is kindly supported using public funding by the Arts Council England.

BLACK TICKET PROJECT

10% of all our tickets available to young, Black people via the Black Ticket Project founded by Tobi Kyeremateng. If you're interested in attending any APPLE performance, email hello@theupsetters.co.uk for more information.

ACCESS

THE UPSETTERS want to provide an accessible entry point to the theatre industry for artists of colour but our work on access doesn’t end there. We’ve taken a number of steps to make our event more accessible to audiences.

• Wheelchair accessible and step-free access.

• Relaxed performances.

• Captioning provided in partnership with the Difference Engine.

We recognise that this is not perfect. We are working to provide BSL and Audio Description on this and all future shows. If you do have any additional access requirements, please email hello@theupsetters.co.uk and we will do everything we can to help.