“My eyes turn yellow. Fur springing out all over me and the fangs snapping out from my gums…”

★★★★ ‘An indelible portrait of a lost soul. An extraordinary piece, beautifully performed.’ The Times

★★★★ ‘The play carries devastating and seismic power… Something new, exciting and dangerous, with an utterly arresting performance.’ Guardian

★★★★★ ‘Landmark theatre, with a performance of the highest order. Extraordinary… Compelling… Sheer Excellence. Do not miss it.’ Broadway World

★★★★ ‘Gutsy and subversive…suggests warm touches of humanity in the unlikeliest places.’ WhatsOnStage

★★★★ ‘This is a brilliant and delicately devised play… with a masterclass performance by Clare Latham.‘ London Theatre Reviews

★★★★ ‘A haunting monologue that embraces epic events, with a stellar turn from Clare Latham’ Helen Hawkins, ArtsDesk

‘Wolf Cub is well and truly a play for our times’ London Unattached

1980s, America. Teenage Maxine has teenage problems. There’s moving from the Rural Southern states to Urban Los Angeles with her booze-sodden Dad, there’s high school, boys, drugs, murder, Nicaraguan Contras, CIA, the LA uprising, the Northridge Earthquake… Not for the faint-hearted or Ronald Reagan. Blazing through a turbulent coming of age, and now trapped in a country sick with injustice, Maxine’s eyes are yellow, her hands are claws and she has a howl desperate for release…

Blending poetic beauty with brutal honesty, Wolf Cub is a visceral odyssey written and directed by Ché Walker, performed by Clare Latham.

Ché Walker makes his Hampstead debut. Previous writing credits include The Frontline and The Lightning Child (both Shakespeare’s Globe), Fleshwound (Royal Court) and Been So Long (Netflix). Previous directing credits include Been So Long (Young Vic), Klook’s Last Stand (Park Theatre), The Glory of Living (Battersea Arts) and Macbeth (Southwark Playhouse).

Clare Latham performs in her first Hampstead production. Previous credits include Fairview (Soho Rep/Theatre For A New Audience, Off Broadway), Danny and the Deep Blue Sea and A Parable (both Southwark Playhouse), plus Blue Surge and Don’t Smoke In Bed (both Finborough). Television work includes Mr Robot and Suspicion.