DOG HAIR at VAULT Festival 2023

‘Asbestos ceilings don’t break like glass’

After the death of SON’s Nan, SON returns to his hometown, but MAM’s boyfriend, MIKE, not from the area, has other ideas about what’s best for them.  As the town’s grip re-takes its hold, SON struggles to suppress his rising grief, tensions with MIKE intensify, and there can only be so long until the levy breaks. Lost, angry and broken, SON is forced to confront the question: can you ever truly leave the place you’re from? Full of wit, warmth and unstereotyped working-class charm, bite and tenderness, DOG HAIR is about the struggle between place and identity and how ‘No matter how far you go from home, you’ll always have dog hair on your clothes’. (May also include instances of Genesis).

A quick-witted, lyrical and devastating new 3-hander, DOG HAIR is written by Phillip Jones (BWL BOY – BBC WALES, Best Actor: It’s My Shout for PACKAGED – BBC Wales), and produced by Rachel Thomas (Associate Producer: WHOLE, Wildcard Theatre’s multi award-winning RUCKUS) for 7th Sense Theatre, a company existing to make ‘class theatre, without the divide’.

ABOUT 7TH SENSE

Seventh Sense Theatre Ltd is a registered company founded in 2018 to create ‘class theatre, without the divide’. They produce work for & about people whose stories go untold, give those audiences a voice, & most importantly, take those shows to them. They aim to provide a platform for artists to take risks & develop through collaboration, regardless of experience or class background.  In 2020 they were selected for Wildcard Theatre’s 4 OF A KIND scheme for ‘4 of the UK’s most exciting emerging companies’. They are committed to a minimum of 50% working-class representation across all projects, including DOG HAIR. They develop their work alongside RECLAIM Project, a charity empowering the young working class, & are one of the founding arts organisations on their OUR SPACE Manifesto to make opportunities and public spaces more accessible to working-class young people.

‘An exciting and driven company, easily selectable for our Artistic Development programme with their passion for theatre and new writing’ – Wildcard Theatre

★★★★★ ‘Phillip Jones gives us an absolute masterclass in performance’ – London Theatre Review (BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS)