APEX PREDATOR

About the show

“They’re obsessed with climate change. See, we’re their food source and we’re heading towards extinction. It’s causing them a lot of anxiety…” Mia is going out of her mind in a flat with a baby that won’t feed. Her son Alfie’s getting bullied at school; her husband Joe is working all hours for the police on a job he can’t talk about; the neighbour keeps blasting music at 2am; and another body has been found in the Thames. As Mia desperately looks for something in her life she can control, Alfie’s teacher Ana proposes an unconventional route to empowerment – and suddenly the hunted becomes the hunter… John Donnelly’s genre-busting new play is at once a sophisticated critique of the way we live now and a supernatural thriller. Donnelly’s other plays include The Knowledge (Bush) and The Pass (Royal Court). Director Blanche McIntyre returns to Hampstead following her record-breaking production of The Invention of Love.