Cockroach

Max was recently Resident Director at the National Theatre Studio and Resident Assistant Director at Chichester Festival Theatre for Festival 2018 where he assisted Tinuke Craig, Dale Rooks and Daniel Evans. He was Youth Theatre Director at Nuffield Southampton Theatres for 6 years directing over 20 full productions with young people – everything from small scale studio shows like Consensual by Evan Placey and Someone to Blame by Tess Berry Hart to large cast epics like His Dark Materials, Henry IV and The Laramie Project. 

Director credits include: Mother Of Him (Park Theatre 200); Ripped (Underbelly, Edinburgh); Angry (Southwark Playhouse); Foreign Goods 2, Broken Gargoyles (Theatre 503); Consensual, The Odyssey, Girls Like That, Henry IV, His Dark Materials, The Laramie Project Circle, The Wardrobe, Feathers In The Snow, Great Expectations, The Three Musketeers, Cymbeline (Nuffield Theatre); Someone To Blame (King’s Head Theatre & Nuffield Theatre); Jimmy Jimmy (Omnibus Clapham); The Best Christmas Present (The Playing Field); The Voyage Of Lost Dreams (SS Shieldhall).

Associate Director credits include: Fisherman’s Friend The Musical, The Osmonds The Musical, Cargo (UK tours); We Are Here (National Theatre).

Assistant Director credits include: Fisherman’s Friends The Musical (Hall For Cornwall), Me & My Girl, random/generations, The Midnight Gang (Chichester Festival Theatre); Cargo (Arcola Theatre); The Nutcracker (Nuffield Theatre).

Sam Holcroft is a playwright, winner of the Windham Campbell Prize for Literature.

Her plays include: A Mirror (Almeida Theatre, London, 2023; West End, 2024); Rules for Living(National Theatre, London, 2015); The Wardrobe for National Theatre Connections; Edgar & Annabel, part of the Double Feature season in the Paintframe at the National Theatre; Dancing Bears, part of the Charged season for Clean Break at Soho Theatre and Latitude Festival; While You Lie at the Traverse, Edinburgh; Pink, part of the Women, Power and Politics season at the Tricycle; Vanya, adapted from Chekhov, at The Gate; and Cockroach, co-produced by the National Theatre of Scotland and Traverse (nominated for Best New Play 2008, by the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland and shortlisted for the John Whiting Award, 2009).

In 2013, she wrote The House Taken Over, a libretto for opera, adapted from Cortázar, for the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Académie Européenne de Musique. She received the Tom Erhardt Award in 2009, was the Pearson Writer-in-Residence at the Traverse Theatre, 2009–10, and the Writer-in-Residence at the National Theatre Studio from 2013–14. In 2014, she received a Windham Campbell Prize for Literature in the drama category.

Contains violence, offensive language, racism (including racist language), sexual intimacy, sexual assault/violence, ableism, strong language, blood, weapons, death, references to war, death and fertility, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM),and potential sensory triggers like loud noises and flashing lights.

This amateur production of “Cockroach” is presented by arrangement with Nick Hern Books