The Pitchfork Disney
A beautiful stranger enters a home locked against the outside world....
Lidless Theatre, Zoe Weldon and King’s Head Theatre have announced the full casting for their new production of Philip Ridley’s seminal work The Pitchfork Disney. Lidless Theatre’s Co-Artistic Director Max Harrison directs Elizabeth Connick as Haley, Ned Costello as Presley (Offie Winner for Lead Performance in a Play), and William Robinson as Cosmo (Ian Charleson Award Finalist and Offie Winner for Lead Performance in a Play).The production opens on 2 September 2025, with previews from 27 August and runs until 4 October at King’s Head Theatre.
Ridley’s first professional stage play, The Pitchfork Disney, premiered at Bush Theatre on 2 January 1991 and was instrumental in launching the In-Yer-Face theatre movement.
You know why the ghost train is so popular? Because there are no ghosts. Once you’ve learnt that you can make a fortune.
Ten years ago something terrible happened to Presley and Haley. Since then they've lived alone in their dead parents’ house, doors bolted against the terrors of the world. But, one night, Presley sees a beautiful stranger on the street outside. And while his sister sleeps…he invites in their worst nightmare.
Darkly comic and deeply unsettling, Philip Ridley’s seminal masterpiece single-handedly changed the course of British drama. Its exploration of ‘a climate of fear’, living in ‘alternate worlds’, and persistent thrum of sexual anxiety has continued to act as a tuning fork for the zeitgeist. It is a play whose relevance is forever in the now.
Fresh from two sell-out, ★★★★★ runs at Park Theatre, including Leaves of Glass, which broke Park90’s box office records, Lidless Theatre continues to champion Ridley’s groundbreaking storytelling on stage.