Gagglebabble presents
Sinners Club
A co-production with The Other Room and Theatre Clwyd
In Association with Soho Theatre
Sinners Club invites you to join live band The Bad Mothers as they record their latest album live in front of an audience. Based on the life of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK, the live recording of this concept album promises songs inspired by Ruth’s short life washed down with a cocktail of stories about lives lost to sin.
Thanks to Arts Council Wales, Arts Council England and The National Lottery for supporting this project
Writer: Lucy Rivers
Director: Titas Halder
Designer: Mark Bailey
Design Assistant: Oliver Harman
Lighting Designer: Katy Morison
Sound Designer: Sam Jones
Video & Projection Designer: Nic Finch
Production Manager: Jim Davis
Stage Manager: Steffi Pickering
Associate Director: Francesca Goodridge
Assistant Director: Kate Willetts
Assistant Producer for the Outliers Season: George Soave
The Band:
The Bad Mothers: – Lucy Rivers / Tom Cottle / Dan Messore / Aidan Thorne
Photography – Kirsten McTernan
★★★★
“A glittering dark gem”
Lyn Gardner for The Guardian
★★★★
“Rivers’ songs are shot through with sounds of Americana … proper old pulp fiction.”
Matt Trueman for Whatsonstage
★★★★
“Rivers sings with the ease that most people use to breathe. The show is worth it for her performance alone.”
The Stage
“In terms of performance Sinners Club is faultless. From the moment you enter the smoky, low lit recording studio that The Other Room has transformed into, from the first note that Lucy Rivers belts out to the last. Sinners Club feels like a piece that really flies – hitting the kind of immersive buttons that make it feel like the best of something Punchdrunk would create. It’s a brave, bold and importantly truly enjoyable evening.”
Wales Arts Review – Gary Raymond
