
Boys From The Blackstuff
Gizza job. Go on, gizzit.
80s Liverpool.
Chrissie, Loggo, George, Dixie and Yosser are used to hard work and providing for their families. But there is no work and there is no money. What are they supposed to do? Work harder, work longer, buy cheaper, spend less? They just need a chance.
Richly enjoyable, funny, incendiary and humane”
★★★★ The Guardian
Life is tough but the lads can play the game. Find jobs, avoid the ‘sniffers’ and see if you can have a laugh along the way.
The audience hangs on every syallable”
★★★★★ Daily Mail
James Graham’s powerful new adaptation of Alan Bleasdale’s BAFTA award-winning TV series is directed by Kate Wasserberg and comes to The Rep direct from the National Theatre and the West End.
Tremendously powerful”
★★★★ Time Out
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Presented by
Bill Kenwright Ltd – the Liverpool Royal Court and National Theatre production
Price
From £25
Adapted by
James Graham
Directed by
Kate Wasserberg
Age Guidance
10+
Please note, no under 5s will be admitted to the auditorium.
Content Advice
Please note this production contains flashing lights, strong language, a gunshot and depictions of violence, grief, and death.
Running Time
Approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes including an interval.
Access Performances
BSL Interpreted: Wed 19 Mar 7.30pm by Karen Ward-Welch
Audio Described: Sat 22 Mar 2.30pm by Carolyn Smith
A Free Touch Tour is available to book at 1.30pm before the Audio Described performance.
Fees and Charges
Please note there is a transaction fee of £3.50 on all payment types.
Venue
Production Photos

Photo by Alastair Muir. Jurell Carter (Loggo), Reiss Barber (Snowy), Ged McKenna (George), Jay Johnson (Yosser) and George Caple (Chrissie)

Photo by Alastair Muir. Cast of Boys from the Blackstuff.

Photo by Alastair Muir. Cast of Boys from the Blackstuff.

Photo by Alastair Muir. Sian Polhill-Thomas (Ms Sutcliffe) and Jamie Peacock (Moss)

Photo by Alastair Muir. Jurell Carter (Loggo), Jay Johnson (Yosser) and Mark Womack (Dixie).

Photo by Alastair Muir. Jamie Peacock (Moss) and Amber Blease (Lawton).

Photo by Alastair Muir. Sean Kingsley (Malloy) and George Caple (Chrissie)

Photo by Alastair Muir. Reiss Barber (Snowy) and Jamie Peacock (Moss)
In The Rehearsal Room

Rehearsal Photography by Alastair Muir.

Rehearsal Photography by Alastair Muir.

Rehearsal Photography by Alastair Muir.

Rehearsal Photography by Alastair Muir.

Rehearsal Photography by Alastair Muir.

Rehearsal Photography by Alastair Muir.

Rehearsal Photography by Alastair Muir.

Rehearsal Photography by Alastair Muir.

Rehearsal Photography by Alastair Muir.
Cast
George Caple
George trained at RADA
Theatre includes: Boys From the Blackstuff, Homebaked (Liverpool’s Royal Court), Paint Your Wagon, The Big I Am, A Clockwork Orange, Fiddler On the Roof, Conquest of the South Pole, Romeo & Juliet ( all for Liverpool Everyman), The Secret Seven (Chester Storyhouse), Who Cares (Lowry), Epic Love & Pop Songs (Pleasance).
Television includes: Doctor Who (BBC), Tin Star (Kudos), Doctors (BBC).
Film includes: Kingsmen: The Great Game (Marc Films) , Nowhere Fast (short) Gloria (short).
Jurell Carter
Jurell Carter graduated from The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) in 2016. Jurell is best known for his series regular role of Nate Robinson on ITV’s ‘Emmerdale’, his performance earned him a nomination for ‘Best Newcomer’ at The National Television Awards. Other television credits include; ‘Home’ (Channel 4), ‘Doctors’ (BBC) & ‘Kiri’ (Channel 4)
Jurell is thrilled to be making his theatrical debut in ‘Boys from the Blackstuff.
Jay Johnson
Theatre includes: Greasy Spoon (Royal Court, Liverpool); Two Pence to Cross the Mersey (Pulse Productions); The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole (Lula Productions) and Wishful Thinking (Unity Theatre, Liverpool).
Film credits include: Accused (Three Little Birds); The Keeper (Zephyr Films); Boiling Point (Ascendant Films); Nowhere Boy (Ecosse Films); The Now (Red Hot Media); Denial (LA Productions) and Foreign Friends (Rush Films).
Television credits include: Adolescence (Netflix); Little Boy Blue (ITV); Moving On (BBC) and Crimson Field (BBC).
Ged McKenna
Ged has worked at many theatres. In London at The Royal Court, Lyric, Hammersmith, The Royal National Theatre, The Donmar Warehouse, Polka Children’s Theatre, The Gate (Notting Hill) and several other Fringe venues. In the regions: The New Vic (Stoke), Library and Contact Theatre’s (Manchester), Playhouse (Liverpool), Theatre By The Lake (Keswick), The Traverse (Edinburgh), Rep (Birmingham), Playhouse (Salisbury), Hull Truck, Everyman (Cheltenham), Coliseum (Oldham), Chester (Grosvenor Park), Theatre Royal (Bury S. Edmunds), West Yorkshire Playhouse (Leeds), Northcott (Exeter), English Theatre (Frankfurt), Playhouse (Nottingham), Stephen Joseph Theatre (Scarborough). He has toured with Cheek by Jowl, Shared Experience, London Classic Theatre and several other Companies.
Television includes: The Tower (Series 3), Dead Hot, Fantabulouso, The Bill, The Commander, The Paradise Club, Boon, Law and Order UK, Doctors, Coronation Street, Hollyoaks, Holby City, Casualty, Anne, Moving On.
Film includes : Shirley Valentine, Vanity Fair, Away Days, To Know Him, Geronimo, Tide.
As a writer: The Farmer’s Bride (SJT, Scarborough, Battersea Arts Centre and Tour), Small Lives (SJT, Scarborough/The New Vic, Stoke), Cheers (M6, Rochdale), Robin Hood, Cinderella (Theatre Royal, Bury St. Edmunds).
Mark Womack
Theatre credits include – For the Royal Exchange Theatre – Romeo and Julie, View from the Bridge, The Lodger (Also Hampstead Theatre) , Fast Food . Hamlet ( Contact Theatre) The Daughter in Law , Julius Caesar (Birmingham Rep) Hope ( Royal Court Theatre Liverpool), Clybourne Park (UK tour).
Mark’s film credits include Route Irish directed by Ken Loach , Under the Skin directed by Carine Adler, U Want me 2 Kill Him, Kelly and Victor and Subculture.
TV credits include Babylon, Tin Star, Anne, The Responder, Murphy’s Law, Hillsborough, Good Cop, Sorted, Buried and Liverpool 1.
Reiss Barber
Theatre includes: Bull (Liverpool Everyman), Netherley Hillbillies (Liverpool’s Royal Court) Raves “R” Us (Naughty Corner Productions), Bootcamp (Not Too Tame) and The Knock (Sugar Punch).
Amber Blease
Theatre includes: Secret Cinema’s Guardians of the Galaxy (Fabulosa), Doctor Who: Time Fracture (Zoria), Closer (Hope Street Theatre), Pop-Up Globe’s Hamlet and Measure for Measure (New Zealand and Australia Tour).
Kyle Harrison-Hope
Theatre includes: Harvey (Vienna English Theatre), Forgotten Fellow (Velvet Smoke), A Midsummer Nights Dream (Australian Shakespeare Company), Pillow Talk (Velvet Smoke).
Opera ensembles include Rigoletto (The Royal Opera Japan Tour), Peter Grimes (The Royal Opera), Aida (The Royal Opera), Turandot (The Royal Opera).
Films include VRAG (Emberr Film).
Sean Kingsley
Theatre credits include: Bindweed (Arcola/Mercury Theatre Colchester/New Wolsey Ipswich), The Addams Family (UK Tour/London Palladium), Patriots (Noel Coward Theatre), Mandela (Young Vic), Once (New Wolsey), The Grinning Man (Trafalgar Studios), Oxy and the Morons (New Wolsey), Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park), Jersey Boys (UK tour), Jackie the Musical (Dundee Gardyne), We Will Rock You (10th Anniversary World Tour), The Rocky Horror Show (European Tour), Jesus Christ Superstar (Minack), Little Shop of Horrors (Birmingham Rep), (Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace), The Drowsy Chaperone (Novello), Chess (20th Anniversary Concert, Oslo), Mamma Mia (International Tour), Some Girls are Bigger than Others (Lyric Hammersmith, National Tour, Dublin), Les Miserables (Queens/Palace Theatres), Cyrano de Bergerac (Cold Moon Rising, Jermyn Street), Scrooge (Dominion, National/European Tours), Me and My Girl (Adelphi), A Chorus Line (Derby Playhouse), Hot Shoe Shuffle (National Tour), Cats (New London), On the Town (National Tour).
Television and film credits include: Black Doves, The Responder, London Road, Poirot, Wire in the Blood, Merseybeat, The Bill.
Jamie Peacock
Jamie trained at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.
Theatre includes: Boys From The Blackstuff (Liverpool’s Royal Court), Stocking Fillers (Liverpool’s Royal Court), Masquerade (Liverpool’s Royal Court); The Incident Room, Twelfth Night and Woyzeck (Old Fruit Jar Productions), Grass (Perception Theatre) and X (Liverpool Everyman).
Film includes Sad Man Smiling.
Radio includes A Parlour Full of Noise.
Sian Polhill-Thomas
Theatre credits include: Beginning (Vienna’s English Theatre), Lady Windermere’s Fan (Vaudeville Theatre, West End) Ugly Lies the Bone (National Theatre, London), Deep Blue Sea (National Theatre, London), Vassa Zheleznova (Southwark Playhouse), Romeo and Juliet (Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmonds), The Natives (Old Vic Theatre).
Graham Elwell
Theatre credits include: The Independent Socialist Republic of the Upper End of The Lower Breck Road (Royal Court Liverpool), Tony The Bodyguard Musical (UK and Ireland tour), Of Mice And Men (Birmingham Rep and UK Tour), The Last Of The Duty Free (UK Tour), The Elves and The Shoemaker (Norden Farm Centre for the Arts), Shakespeare’s Sonnets (The Globe), A Dog Called Redemption (Bolton Octagon), Rachael’s Café (UK & Ireland Tour), The Zoo Story (Pleasance Theatre), The Taming Of The Shrew (Bridewell Theatre), Jekyll and Hyde (Union Theatre), Speed The Plow (Cockpit Theatre), Phaedre (Craigmillar Castle).
Screen credits include: The Miniaturist (BBC), Trying (Apple TV), Four Weddings and a Funeral (HULU), Mike Bassett – Manager (ITV), Song of Songs (Mercenary Films), Crimewatch Solved (BBC).
Elliott Kingsley
Elliott trained through the YEP Programme at Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse.
Theatre credits include: The Tempest (Royal & Derngate), The Wonderful World of Dissocia (Liverpool Playhouse), Fiddler on the Roof, The Story Giant and Romeo and Juliet (Everyman REP Company), Drag Nativity (Storyhouse, Chester;) and Ira Aldridge (Story Adventure at Shakespeare North Playhouse).
Television credits include: Cobra and Antony.
Victoria Oxley
Victoria trained at ALRA North.
Theatre credits include: Much Ado About Nothing (Hope Mill Manchester and Shakespeare North Playhouse), Vagina Cake and Dancing Out (HER Productions), Stayin’ Alive (Unity, Liverpool), It’s My Pleasure to Participate (Bluecoat Liverpool) and An Enemy of the People (Bolton Octagon).
TV credits include: Brassic (season six), Hollyoaks and Jeremy Kyle: Death on Daytime.