AKEDAH

About the show

Gill has returned home to the north coast of Northern Ireland determined to speak to her younger sister Kelly for the first time in three years. There she is shocked to discover that Kelly has become a devout member of a rapidly expanding Christian community called Harvest. As Gill struggles to reconcile this Kelly with the Kelly she has been keeping safe in her mind, a noise is gathering at their periphery that refuses to go unheard any longer. Akedah is Michael John O’Neill’s first full-length play, and won the Bruntwood Prize Original New Voice Award in 2019. Lucy Morrison returns to Hampstead after The Animal Kingdom. An Associate Director at the Royal Court, her credits include This Is Not Who I Am, Scenes with girls and The Woods (Royal Court) and Little on the Inside (Almeida). Akedah stars Ruby Campell (The Snow Queen, Lyric Theatre, Belfast; Translations, Abbey Theatre, Dublin), Mairead McKinley (The String Quartet’s Guide to Sex and Anxiety, Birmingham Rep/world tour; Filthy Business, Hampstead Theatre) and Amy Molloy (This is Paradise, Traverse Theatre; Translations, National Theatre).