The Oxford School of Drama

Hayley Wareham in Cardboard Citizens’ 50th anniversary tour of Cathy, an adaptation of the ground-breaking Ken Loach film, Cathy Come Home.

The Oxford School of Drama

Hayley Wareham is touring theatres, hostels, prisons and day centres across England until February 2017 in Cathy. Candid, poignant and intimate, this four star hit new play by award winning playwright Ali Taylor offers a timely reflection on the social and personal impact of spiralling housing costs, gentrification and the challenges of the forced relocation away from London.

Cardboard Citizens presents this powerful and emotive Forum Theatre show, exploring resonances in today’s society with the story told in the ground-breaking Ken Loach film, Cathy Come Home, 50 years ago.

The tour goes to:

  • Quarterhouse, Kent
  • The Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter
  • Rosehill on the Road, Cumbria
  • Crucible Studio, Sheffield
  • Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
  • Northern Stage, Newcastle
  • Cast, Doncaster
  • Mac Birmingham, Birmingham
  • HMP Pentonville, London
  • HMP Thameside, London
  • Bridport Arts Centre
  • Warwick Arts Centre
  • Theatre Royal Wakefield
  • The Civic, Barnsley

More about this production here

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Seamus Allen

Seamus trained in his hometown, Dublin at the Conservatory of Music and Drama. After graduating he toured nationally with some of Ireland’s premier children’s theatre companies, as well as developing and performing clown performances for Barrabbas, and magic shows for Cahoots N.I. 

Since moving to the UK Seamus has appeared in The Tempest, As You Like It, Comedy of Errors, Macbeth and Robin Hood (Creation Theatre Company), Quest (Folklore Presents) The Disappearance (The Sticking Place),and Where’s My Desi Soulmate? (Rifco Arts). Tv work includes Bear Behaving Badly (Thames Valley).  Seamus is also a skilled improviser, training with Ken Campbell’s School of Night and core cast in the annual London 50 hour Improvathons and performs with “Austentatious, The improvised Jane Austen Novel”.  

Seamus was the director of the Young Company at the Watermill theatre in Newbury. He established Readings only Improvisation comedy club, “What’s the Game?! Improv”, hosting shows as well as coaching professional performers.  Seamus was Head of acting at Read college, a course which he wrote and which became one of the most successful Foundation courses for getting students into the top acting degree programmes in the UK.  Most recently he has been Head of Year at Drama Studio London and gained an MSc in Performance Psychology focusing on excellence in actor training.

Seamus is Head of Foundation and teaches on the Foundation Courses