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TAP ROOT BY ASHLEY MILNE
PRODUCED BY TEASTAIN THEATRE | Longlisted for the women’s prize for playwriting 2023
12 - 17 February 2025
The Glitch
Lower Marsh, Waterloo, London
Content and Age Advisory
This show is aimed at ages 15 + with adult content
If you would benefit from knowing more about specific content and themes in Tap Root, please read our content & theme list linked here.
the bold new production shining a light on a broken system.
A boy who spent his childhood incarcerated has been keeping his head down, but when a familiar story makes headlines, his whole world threatens to unravel. Can he outrun his past, or will the government, and his own, attempts to bury his identity prove too much?
Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Playwriting, TAP ROOT is premiering at The Glitch’s newly renovated theatre after its acclaimed first reading at a Pinch of VAULT.
Written by Ashley Milne, performed by James Chetwood and directed by Rebecca McGreevy, with Associate Director Jessy Roberts.
A Teastain Theatre production, putting socially driven and experimental writing on the stage, most recently Untitled Sparkly Vampire Play.
tap root by ashley milne
developed and produced by teastain theatre
Thank you!
We would like to say a huge thank you to Mel, Paul and the team at The Glitch
The Glitch production team:
Writer - Ashley Milne
Director - Rebecca McGreevy
Performer - James Chetwood
Associate Director - Jessy Roberts
Lighting Technician - Conor Costelloe
Production Photographer - Huw Smallwood
The government releases youth custody data monthly on this website.
As of May 2024, 510 children in the UK are incarcerated.
“There is no particular regime, training or education for 18 to 21 year olds whilst in prison. The result is that many spend most of the day locked up in their cells doing nothing. As a whole, young adults are overlooked in every aspect“.
Tap Root will be a part of the resurgence of this huge and necessary discussion about the treatment of young people in and after prison.
Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2023, TAP ROOT is premiering at The Glitch’s newly renovated theatre after its acclaimed first reading at a Pinch of VAULT.
Booking now for future programming in 2025/26
Tap Root's Development
Initially developed for a workshop reading at The Glitch in 2023, Tap Root has established a small and dedicated audience and a passionate creative team.
Stages of development to date:
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Pinch of VAULT 2023: rehearsed reading performances with two sold out audiences of 30 at The Glitch
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Longlisted for Women’s Prize for Playwriting: 2024
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Week of research and development with in-kind rehearsal space at National Theatre Studio in 2024
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First performance at The Glitch's new space in February 2025
Following February 2025, we are looking to a future run of Tap Root. Interested in being involved? Email us at teastaintheatre@gmail.com
Creative Team
Written by Ashley Milne, Performed by James Chetwood
Directed by Rebecca McGreevy, Associate Director Jessy Roberts
In 2022, Rebecca McGreevy and Jessy Roberts collaborated with writer Ashley Milne to create Untitled Sparkly Vampire Play for a 3 week run at the Omnibus Theatre. Ashley Milne’s recent shows have exploded onto the stage, exploring obsessive teenage girldom, staring into the void of the end of the world, compulsory heterosexuality and the feeling of being young and entirely alone.
This collaboration also then went on to develop and produce Thirst (Omnibus Theatre’s 96 Festival and Vault 2023), where we worked with actor James Chetwood and now forms the start of team Tap Root.
Tap Root is the newest show by this team.
GET INVOLVED
Going into production in 2025, get in touch with the team at teastaintheatre@gmail.com to find out more about supporting, programming or being a part of this new production
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