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⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ham and High ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Alt A Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐ London Born and Bred
The London hit of 2024 is remounted.
After decades in jail, Mac is looking for the daughter he has never known.
But she is on a collision course with her ex-lover’s family after her explosive temper gets the better of her.
Her new lover JayJayJay is trying to stay out of trouble, but this is one family that’s addicted to chaos.
Redemption versus Rage, Family versus Freedom…
One of The Observer‘s Top 10 Best Plays of the Year for 2024
OffWestEnd Award Nomination for New Play
OffWestEnd Award Nomination for Performance Ensemble
London Pub Theatres Standing Ovation Award Nomination
Hidden Gem, FringeReview
Lyn’s Picks – Critic’s Pick by Lyn Gardner for Stagedoor
First performed at the Finborough Theatre, London. Neil McPherson, Artistic Director
Photo's by Harry J Miller
Cast and Creative Team
Alice Walker
jayjayjay
Trained at Rose Bruford, East 15 and Theatre Royal Stratford East Young Company.
Theatre includes Followers (Touring), We Could All Be Perfect (Sheffield Playhouse) and Pleasure (Theatre Royal Stratford East).
Film includes Midas Man.
Television includes Grantchester and Doc Martin.
Joanne Marie Mason
scratch
Joanne Marie Mason trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and is an Open Door alumni. Theatre credits include The Coral and Burnt Up Love at the Finborough Theatre. Television includes Surface (Apple TV+). Film includes Stargazer (Deal Productions). Theatre whilst training includes Three Sisters, Dance Nation, The Frontline, King Richard II, The Oresteia, The Way of the World, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Twelfth Nightand The Seagull.
Ché Walker
mac
Trained at the Webber-Douglas Academy.
Theatre includes Othello and Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare’s Globe), Christmas (Bush Theatre), Tuesday Night Poker (Theatre Row, New York), French Toast (Riverside Studios), 2:22 A Ghost Story (Gielgud Theatre), The Prince (Southwark Playhouse), Intra Muros (Park Theatre), Biloxi Blues (Salisbury Playhouse), Last Sortie (New End Theatre, Hampstead), Pitchfork Disney (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow) and Wait Until Dark (Theatre Royal Plymouth).
Television includes Riches, The Chelsea Detective, Youngers, Holby City, EastEnders, The Office, The Vice, Madsen, Lipstick On Your Collar, Killing Time, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Supply and Demand, Little Napoleons, State of Affairs, The Bill, Between The Lines, Class Act, Soldier Soldier, Casualty, Minder, Rules of Engagement and Dangerfield.
Film includes Deadmeat, January 2nd, Kiss Kiss, Circus and Beyond Bedlam.
Ruby Aspinall
Live musician
Classically trained, Ruby plays with orchestras that include; BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, ENO, & BRB.She continues to enjoy performing in the major concert halls in the U.K and has recently toured to Germany, France, Ireland & U.S.A with Chineke! Orchestra who are celebrating their 10th anniversary tour.
As a concert harpist, Ruby gave her debut Chamber performance at the BBC Proms with the renowned vocal group VOCES 8, Ola Gjeilo, and The Carducci Quartet for the ‘“Mindful Mix”Prom in 2023.
Recent highlights include performing at the Berlin Philharmonie, conducted by Andrew Grams, and playing electric harp on Europe’s largest stage at Glastonbury festival with DJ Fabio & Grooverider.
As a versatile musician, Ruby has been part of recordings that range from Little Simz’ orchestrated album LOTUS ( Amazon Songlines) to Max Richter’s ‘Four Seasons Reimagined’ on Deutsche Grammophon.
Ruby has just completed a U.K tour of Batman in Concert (1989) scored by Danny Elfman. Shows include; Barbie in concert, The Lion King in concert at RAH Branwen Dadeni at WMC & depping on The Sound of Music U.K tour.
The hit Netflix show ‘Bridgerton’, features Ruby playing solo harp in Season 1 with ‘The Featheringtons’. For filming, a gold Erard ‘stunt harp’ circa 1850 was provided plus 19c style costume.
Film tracks Ruby has recorded on include; Marvel’s “Wakanda Forever” at Abbey Road studios & “Queen Charlotte A Bridgerton Story” with singer Alicia Keys.
Alongside performing, Ruby also handles music bookings & had the pleasure of providing a 25 piece orchestra for filming ‘The Fine Print’ for YouTube sensation
‘The Stupendium’ at The Clapham Grand.
Ruby trained at The Purcell School Of Music & Trinity College Of Music.
She was delighted to be invited back to take part in the Grammy nominations for the prestigious Grammy Music Awards in 2025.
@rubyharpist
Verity Clayton
Company Stage Manager
Theatre includes: Lost Atoms, Metamorphosis (Frantic Assembly/ Lyric Hammersmith/ Tour); Reverberation (Bristol Old Vic); Showdown (Upswing/ New Vic/ Tour); Imposter 22 (Royal Court); 24 [Day] - The Measure of my Dreams (Almeida); Robin Hood and the Christmas Heist (Rose Theatre Kingston); The Earthworks (Young Vic); The Score[s] III (i.as.in.we/ Barbican); Wuthering Heights (Inspector Sands/ China Plate/ Royal & Derngate/ Tour); Hamlet Reimagined (National); Fun at the Beach Romp-Bomp-a-Lomp!! (Southwark Playhouse); The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (Northern Stage); Half Empty Glasses, The Ultimate Pickle, A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain (Paines Plough/Rose Kingston); Sorry You’re not a Winner (Paines Plough/ Theatre Royal, Plymouth); The Storm Whale (Little Angel/ York Theatre Royal/ Marlowe); The Journey Home (Little Angel/ Beijing); Wow! Said the Owl (Little Angel/ UK Tour); The Snail and the Whale (Tall Stories/ West End/ UK and International Tour); Under the Rainbow (Polka/ Tour).
John Leonard
Sound Designer
Ché Walker
Writer and Director
Playwright and Director Ché Walker.
Credits Include- Finborough Theatre:Time is Love/Tiempo Es Amor, His Greatness, Etta Jenks, Blue Surge, Fog and Achidi J’s Final Hours.
Che Walker’s writing includes Been So Long, featuring Sophie Okonedo (1998), Flesh Wound (Royal Court Theatre, winner George Devine Award 2003) and Crazy Love, featuring Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Paines Plough, winner Peter Brook Award 2007).
In 2008, Che made theatrical history with The Frontline, the first contemporary-set new play to be performed at Shakespeare’s Globe in London. His musical adaptation of Been So Long premiered at The Young Vic and was adapted into a feature film. The 8th in collaboration with UK rock star Paul Heaton toured the country, starring HBO star Reg E Cathey. Lovesong, in collaboration with UK Soul Legend Omar, was produced by English Touring Theatre in 2011. The Lightning Child (2013) made history as the first musical at Shakespeare’s Globe. Klook’s Last Stand premiered at Park Theatre in 2014 and subsequently played at NAMT in New York, Horizon Theatre in Atlanta, Red Mountain Theatre in Birmingham Alabama. The Etienne Sisters played at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in 2015. Time Is Love featuring Sheila Atim transferred from Stella Adler, Los Angeles, to Finborough Theatre in 2019, selling out its run and is now optioned as a screenplay. Wolf Cub opened at Hampstead Theatre in 2022 to critical acclaim and sold out its run. His documentary feature Connie has been selected for eighteen film festivals at time of writing.
Billy Medlin
Choreography
Billy Medlin is a London based choreographer and performer, recently graduating with a First class honours from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. His training helped shape his choreographic style bringing elements of theatrical drama into a more contemporary style.
Billy’s recent credits include: Featured dancer in Carousel at the Royal Festival Hall, Ensemble in Jack and the beanstalk at the Aylesbury Waterside theatre and co-choreographer/ dancer in Chaos: || at the union theatre.
Billy choreographed the first iteration of Burnt up Love and is thrilled to be back on board to explore characters and movements on an even deeper level.
Jack Medlin
Associate Director
Jack Medlin is an actor and theatre maker from London. Directing credits include Die Trying (Kenneth Branagh Drama Award Finalist) Wild One (Covent Garden film festival finalist). Associate Director: Burnt Up Love (Observer Top 10 Plays of the year). He is also the co-artistic director of theatre company - Long Nights Productions
Thomas Quine
Production Manager
Thomas J. Quine is a Production Manager for Theatre and Events.
Recent Production Management credits include:
Slippery (Omnibus Theatre) Anne of Green Gables, NEZHA (Emma Wang Productions Ltd.); Before the Millenium (Old Fire Station Oxford); Sense & Sensibility, Theo In-Between (British Youth Music Theatre);Tuck Everlasting (National Youth Music Theatre) The Jungle Book (Wiltshire Creative); Unfiltered (Pentabus); NOSTOS, The Gel, Table, Callisto, (Oxford School of Drama); Even More Ghost Stories by Candlelight- UK Tour, MAKE ME- Workshop (HighTide Theatre) L’Incoronazione di Poppea, La Cenerentola (Hampstead Garden Opera); On|Off Presents The Disruptors (London Fashion Week 2025); Homo Alone (The Other Palace); Snakes and Ladders (Oxford School of Drama); Dahling you were Marvellous,Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons, Pool (no water), Afterlife (all RCSSD); Shrek, Loserville, Carrie (all University of Chichester); DogShit (Theatre 503),
Recent Assistant / Associate Credits include:
The Code (Deus Ex Machina) Macbeth (Dukes Theatre Company) Cavalleria Rusticana (Blackheath Halls), Into the Woods, Spring Awakening (both Royal Academy of Music); The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, The Dry House (Marylebone Theatre); On|Off Presents Jack Irving (London Fashion Week 2024)
Evie Rostant
Assistant Stage Manager
Evie is a graduate of the University of Kent with a 1st class BA (Hons) degree in Drama and Theatre. She is excited to return to Theatro Technis, having previously worked as an Assistant Stage Manager for The Ophiolite. Her recent credits include An Instinct at The Old Red Lion Theatre, The Mouth of the Gods at Hoxton Hall, and Ghost Ships at the Chatham Dockyards. She has also worked as a production assistant for the national 'Flying High' tour of The Last Flight Out.
Uchenna Ngwe
Composer
Composer Uchenna Ngwe studied oboe and cor anglais at Trinity College of Music (now Trinity Laban). Since graduating, she has performed nationally and internationally as a soloist, as well as in theatre and orchestral chamber group presentations. Uchenna’s work as a performer, composer, arranger and curator has resulted in partnerships with a range of performing artists. Her role as founder and artistic director of Decus Ensemble recently led to a successful collaboration with Le Gateau Chocolat, where her original compositions and arrangements of works by Black classical composers were featured as part of Beyond the Bassline at The British Library in 2024. As an academic, Uchenna has presented and contributed to several BBC Radio programmes, including the Radio 3 documentary ‘Frank Johnson, Queen Victoria and the Black Brass Band’.
Benjamin Isaac
Associate Director
Benjamin is a graduate of The BRIT School. He trained as an actor at RADA, graduating in 2020. His screen work includes series regular in Domina (Sky Atlantic), The Conjuring IV and Holmes & Watson. He works as a director and facilitator with a range of young companies, schools and groups including Springboard Group at the Lyric Hammersmith and The Bridge Company. Benjamin has made and directed work for Theatre Peckham, National Theatre Connections, Finborough Theatre and Park Theatre.
Lev Govorovski
Associate Director
Lev Govorovski is a Director and Actor. He is excited to be back with the Burnt Up Love company after first working on the production in 2024
Credits as Director
Ron - Riverside Studios (Mainspace)
Credits as Assistant and Associate
384 Days - Pleasance Theatre
Debris - Brixton House
Training- Rose Bruford, ALRA
USEFUL INFORMATION
Estimated running time
70 minutes
Performance times
3pm, 6:30pm & 7:30pm
Ticket prices
from £13.50 plus booking fees
Concession
Full-time students, those aged under 16, senior citizens, the unwaged, members of Equity and BECTU
Access
Theatro Technis is fully wheelchair accessible. Guide dogs and hearing dogs are welcome in the auditorium. There is a Loop system fitted in the main auditorium. If you have any questions or specific requests, please email boxoffice@theatrotechnis.com.
Age suitability: 16+
Content Warnings: This production includes flashing lights, fire, smoke, strong language, sensitive content and references to violent and sexual acts.
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