Wisteria Theatre Company launches with Pests
- Alan Hulme
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New grassroots female-led collective Wisteria Theatre Company is at leading fringe venue The Kings Arms in Salford (November 3-5), with Pests, a drama by Bruntwood prizewinner Vivienne Franzmann.
Pests tells the story of sisters, Pink and Rolly, entrenched in cycles of trauma, addiction and survival while living in a world shaped by violence, incarceration and childhood neglect - all tested by Pink’s disruptive return from prison and the haunting past they can’t escape.
Pests features actors Daisy Miles from Stockport as Pink, while Oldham actress Kyia KB, the director of community theatre at Bolton Octagon, plays Rolly.
Wisteria aims to "shine a provocative, immersive light on urgent contemporary issues - viewed through a subtly-warped lens that sits just outside our shared reality."
Writer Vivienne Franzmann's play Mogadishu won the 2008 Bruntwood Prize and premiered at Manchester's Royal Exchange before transferring to the Lyric Hammersmith.
The Wisteria team for Pests includes director Jess Gough, who studied acting at Manchester School of Theatre; Mya Kettle, an actor, producer and writer based in Manchester; Sasha Georgette, a multi-disciplinary artist originally from New York and Maggie Thorn, a Manchester-based theatre creator originally from Bristol.