Ché Walker's

The Frontline

Writer
Ché Walker 

Director
Ché Walker 

Location
The Sainsbury Theatre 

Dates
Friday 4 April at 7pm
Saturday 5 April at 2pm
Monday 7 April at 7pm
Tuesday 8 April at 2pm*
Wednesday 9 April at 7pm

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*This will be a relaxed performance. Find out more.

About the show

Saturday night outside the tube: God, strip bars, weed, crack, lost old men, unemployed actors and vegans all collide in a riptide of chaos on the streets of London. There’s Beth the reformed Christian and Erkenwald the hot-dog seller, old Ragdale on a quest to find his daughter, actor-playwright and egomaniac Mordechai Thurrock, and Cockburn, Elliot and Clayton the dealers and junkies whose trade both sustains and destroys the lives of those around them.

In this vibrant and darkly comic new play, a dozen private stories emerge and their voices give utterance to a storm of subjects and feelings: pop culture and sexual fantasy, the ruins of empire and the delusions of religion, foreign oil and prehistoric London. A panorama of contemporary London encompassing the cruel and the tender, the gutter and the stars.

Ché’s stage credits include The Prince (Southwark Playhouse), Intra Muros (Park Theatre, which Ché also directed), Mark Ravenhill’s Biloxi Blues (Salisbury Playhouse); Christmas  (Bush Theatre).  Ché has also appeared in The Globe’s previous productions of Othello & Love’s Labour’s Lost. 

TV credits include Riches (ITV); The Chelsea Detective (Acorn TV); Youngers (Channel 4); Holly City, and The Office (BBC). 

As a writer and director, Ché’s credits include Been So Long (Royal Court), which was adapted into a feature film by Greenacre/BFI/Film 4, the  award-winning play Flesh Wound (Royal Court); Crazy Love (Paines Plough); The Frontline; The Lightning Child (The Globe);  Lovesong (ETT); The Ballad of Klook & Vinette (Park Theatre); The Etienne Sisters (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Time Is Love (Finborough Theatre); and Wolf Cub (Hampstead Theatre). 

Ché has also written for screen; his short film My Old Flame (Channel 4) was directed by Academy Award winner Asif Kapadia. 

Ché has been an associate teacher at RADA, and has further taught at LAMDA, RCSSD, East15, Webber Douglas Academy, and Stella Adler Academy in Los Angeles.

Contains assault, threats of murder, depiction of death by gun wound, multiple instances of smoking marijuana, heroin use via injection, the selling of drugs, excessive violence and threats, gruesome injury, murder, needles and coercive sexual harassment. 

References to domestic violence, prescription drug abuse and war (including the Fall of Mogadishu, the Dervish movement and the ethnic cleansing of Palestine). Use of explicit language, blades and blood throughout. 

The Frontline was first performed at Shakespeare's Globe, Bankside, London, on 6 July 2008.

Booking

Once you have booked a ticket, you will receive an email confirmation. Read up on our latest audience guidelines here.

Members of the industry: secure your complimentary seat by emailing the Box Office​​​ on [email protected]

Pricing and concessions 

Tickets cost £14, but we have £7 concessions tickets available to Hammersmith & Fulham residents, schools, students, or people who are over 65, under 18 or are on Job Seeker's Allowance. You'll just need to provide proof of your eligibility when you collect your tickets at the Box Office. We offer a complimentary ticket for carers, to book please call the box office on 020 8834 0500. If you belong to our Pathways Programme or work with any of our Pathways Partners you are entitled to complimentary tickets. Please contact the box office to book.

Accessibility 

If you have any additional requirements, you would like us to be aware of, please contact box office on 020 8834 0500. 

Booking your tickets 

Book your tickets online or by calling our box office on 020 8834 0500. 

Industry booking 

If you're a member of the industry, please email [email protected] to book your tickets. 

Group tickets 

We're pleased to offer discounted tickets to groups of 10+ people. Standard tickets are discounted to £9 per person, while under 18's tickets are discounted to £5 per person. To book, please contact [email protected]

E-Tickets

There is no need to collect tickets. You will be send an E-Ticket via email which you can present on arrival.

Refunds 

Unfortunately, all tickets are non-refundable.

Creative Team

* LAMDA staff member or visiting artist

Director 
Ché Walker*

Designer 
Amanda Mascarenhas*

Producer
Rebecca Lyle*

Assistant Producer 
Bobby Harding*

Voice Director 
Gurkiran Kaur*

Costume Supervisor 
Tabitha Stock*

Movement Director & Choreographer 
Oluwatosin Omotosho*

Musical Director 
James Michalos*

Fight Director 
Lisa Connell*

Composer 
Uchenna Ngwe*

Intimacy Director
Sophie Cooch*

Assistant Directors
Rebeca dos Anjos
Hope Wishart

Lighting Designer
Aidan Gibson

Sound Designer
Bella Kear*

Cast

Salim / Roderique
Tobias Adetula

Jimmy / Cockburn / Carlton
Lewis Bowes

Marcus
Mostyn Crawford

Kurt / Elliot
Ryan Duval

Ragdale / Jayson
Mazlum Gül

Beth
Mia Haynes-French

Benny
Kenndrick Horton

Erkenwald
J Howe

Val / Jodie
Neve Kelman

Mahmoud
Dilip Kumar

Violet
Mariama Mansary

Donna
Rebecca Matundu

Miruts
Jamar Morgan

Mordechai Thurrock
Roland Royal III

Babydoll / Casey
Rẹmi Shorunke-Samuel

Seamus
Oliver Winn

Production Team

* LAMDA staff member or visiting artist

Stage Manager 
Amelia Thorpe

Deputy Stage Manager
Millie Swinchen-Rew*

Assistant Stage Managers
Arthur Moore
Poppy Stewart

Production Manager
Meghan Sorohan*

Deputy Lx / Programmer
Ghoti Fisher

Production Lx
Ronan McKenna

Production Sound Engineer
Abigail Brophy

Production Carpenter
Simon Fleming

Lighting Technicians
Sofia Altamirano
Izzy Barton
Paige Fernandez
Phoenix Morgan
Ming Ong
Kat Parry
Indianah Raymond
Jackson Walsh

Sound Assistants
Phoebe Bennett
Ben Birkwood
XiTong Cao
Bastie Colclough
Nazaire Kilborne-Appiah
Peter McNally
Aryan Sherifi
Ash Vaughan

Construction Crew
Inaaya Abdullah
Lucia Cohen
Finley Cozens
Caspar Edwards
Ashlyn Fray
Rhianna Minhoca
Brooke Sangster
Nicola Usher

Sound Operators 
Phoebe Bennett
Aryan Sherifi
Ash Vaughan

Video Operator
Ben Birkwood

Scenic Artists
Millie Heighes*
Zoe Bridger*