Fanny and Faggot

Time Out Show of the Week
Time Out Critics’ Choice
★★★★ Four Stars, The Times
★★★★ Four Stars, Time Out

This production subsequently transferred to The English Theatre of Bruges from 24 – 29 July 2007, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at Pleasance Cavern (Venue 33) from 1 – 27 August 2007, and to the West End in a double bill with Jack Thorne’s Stacy from 1-27 October 2007 at the Trafalgar Studios, London.

Once upon a time, two small girls killed two smaller boys…

Jack Thorne’s expanded and updated new version of Fanny and Faggot delves further into the person behind the name Mary Bell. A huge success in the 5065 Lift at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2004, this London production reunites the director Stephen Keyworth with Elicia Daly who played Mary to critical acclaim.

This ambitious and highly theatrical drama presents a disturbing, funny, and troubled world, and examines two distinct moments in the life of Mary Bell. Using documentation from the court case in 1968 and the imagined events of her escape in 1978, Fanny and Faggot explores Mary’s journey to the brink of horror and her tentative steps back into ‘normal’ life.

Part One: Two Little Boys
One/Norma Bell – Sophie Fletcher
Two/Mary Bell – Elicia Daly

Part Two: Superstar
Lucy – Diana May
Two/Mary Bell – Elicia Daly
Steve – Christopher Daley
Ray – Simon Darwen