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Qweerdog premieres new play Kind of Love at Hope Mill

Poster for Qweerdog production Kind of Love at Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester

Premiering at Manchester's award-winning Hope Mill Theatre February 24-March 1, Kind Of Love, by writer and director Stewart Campbell, features a young cast of Manchester-based actors in a production from Qweerdog, one of the city’s leading and award-winning LGBTQ+ theatre companies.

It’s the late 1990s, New Labour is in power and the "gay age of consent debate is causing chaos in Parliament. Meanwhile, up and down the country, teenagers are cracking on regardless, making out, making up, but mainly making mistakes!

Steffan comes out to his straight best friend, Typey, on a lads’ holiday in Ibiza - starting a chain of events that will change the lives of four young friends forever.

Stewart set up Qweerdog in 2017 - while graduating from Manchester School of Theatre - to stage a one-act play, Absolute Certainty?, for the Greater Manchester Fringe. The show went on to be shortlisted for the WriteForTheStage - New Writing Award, and in a longer format headlined the first ever LGBTQ+ Turn On Fest at Hope Mill in 2020.

Stewart has since produced work by other writers; last year he directed and produced Canal Street Lonely Hearts Club at Hope Mill, a new version of the Jonathan

Harvey play originally set in 1990s London.

Left to right Ben Goulding, George Bellamy, Rachel Burbridge and Tom Ryder in Kind of Love
Ben Goulding, George Bellamy, Rachel Burbridge and Tom Ryder in Kind of Love

Tom Ryder plays Typey. He has appeared on screen in The Bay, Waterloo Road and Everything I Know About Love, and on stage at the Royal Court and Soho Theatre. As a writer he performed his own show, Ava, at the Golden Goose Theatre in London in 2024.

George Bellamy (Steffan) is both an actor and trained violinist. He has worked on several plays at Chester's Storyhouse Theatre, from Peter Pan to Henry V. He is also a cast member in several short films currently in production.

Also in the cast is Ben Goulding (Jay), a recent graduate of the Arden School of Theatre. He recently appeared as Conker in Lapland UK in London and is also appearing as Kurt in his debut play, Origin Story, at 53two in Manchester.

Rachel Burbridge makes her professional debut with Qweerdog in the role of Gemma. She is a recent graduate of the Manchester School of Theatre, where she won the Sir John Gielgud Award.


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