“People always need to eat. If you can cook, really cook, if you know flavour and taste and texture, people will pay you to do it. People always need to eat. Always.”

★★★★★ ‘powerful play powerfully performed’ LondonTheatre1

★★★★ ‘deeply touching’ TheReviewsHub

‘It’s quite a while since I saw two young actors strike sparks off each other quite as convincingly as the superb Boadicea Ricketts and Ben Castle-Gibb’ The Times

They don’t seem an obvious match.  Joanne is spikey, defensive, a survivor, whilst Paul is quiet, considered – and hiding profound grief for his father.  But the pleasure he takes in cooking – and the astonishing food he prepares – creates a bond between them. So, when the hotel where they both work closes and they start to spiral into poverty, it throws everything up in the air – first the dreams of a cookbook and a restaurant, and, eventually, even the dreams of a future together…

Gareth Farr is an award-winning writer for theatre and TV. His play Britannia Waves the Rules (Royal Exchange Manchester) won the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting in 2011, toured twice, and has since been produced in Australia. His play The Quiet House was performed at Birmingham Rep and Park Theatre and was directed by Tessa Walker. Biscuits for Breakfast is Tessa Walker’s second collaboration with Gareth Farr, and she returns to Hampstead Theatre following her productions of Ravenscourt, Big Big Sky and The Glad Game Downstairs.

Biscuits for Breakfast will star Boadicea Ricketts whose recent theatre work includes Addictive Beat (Boundless Theatre), She Ventures & He Wins (Young Vic) and East (King’s Head) where she was Offie nominated for Best Actress. Her television work includes Call the Midwife, Grantchester and Unprecedented: Going Forward. She will be joined by Ben Castle-Gibb who has recently been seen in Frankenstein (Perth Theatre/ Belgrade Theatre/UK tour) and Season 4 of the television show You.