Kes
A new adaptation of the classic book A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines, Kes tells the story of a day in the life of Billy Caspar; a 15 year old boy about to leave school and determined not to end up working down the mines like his older brother Jud.
Billy doesn't know what he'll do, but one thing has changed his life forever, allowing him to soar above the narrow confines of his family an this town, his kestrel hawk Kes.
Kes is the story of Billy's heart. How it came to beat and how it came to break.
Billy doesn't know what he'll do, but one thing has changed his life forever, allowing him to soar above the narrow confines of his family an this town, his kestrel hawk Kes.
Kes is the story of Billy's heart. How it came to beat and how it came to break.
Kes was commissioned and produced by Catherine Wheels in autumn 2011. Directed by Gill Robertson with lighting by Jeanine Davies, designed by Karen Tennant, Music by Danny Krass, Assistant Director was Kenny McLashan with film design by Jonathan Charles and choreography by Janice Parker.
Nominated for a CATS Award for Best Play for Children and Young People.
Nominated for a CATS Award for Best Play for Children and Young People.
Kes is published by Samuel French.
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'...a pair of deeply moving, meditative performances...the image of the distraught older man trying to save the unloved boy from a tragedy that will darken his life, is one that haunts the memory.' The Scotsman
"Theatre often excels at making a virtue out of a necessity, and the casting of just two actors – the superb young James Anthony Pearson as Billy, and the excellent and versatile Sean Murray as grown-up Billy and all the other characters – is a masterstroke. The switch back and forth between pathos and comedy which the actors achieve is truly brilliant." Sunday Herald "Rob Evans’s astutely brisk, yet lingeringly poetic script for this Catherine Wheels adaptation allows room for our own reflections, but as the evocative scenes build into a slice of Billy’s haphazard, put-upon life you sense there is no happy ending." The Herald |
