Mia is stuck in a flat and going out of her mind with a baby that won’t feed. Her son Alfie is getting bullied at school; her husband Joe is working long hours for the police on a specific job that he can’t talk about; the neighbour keeps blasting out music at 2am; and another dead body has just been found in the Thames.
As Mia searches desperately for things that she can control in her life, Alfie’s teacher Ana proposes a rather unconventional path to empowerment – and all of a sudden, the hunted becomes the hunter…
Apex Predator is John Donnelly’s genre-busting new play and sophisticated critique of modern life and a supernatural thriller. Director Blanche McIntyre returns to the Hampstead Theatre following her record-breaking production of The Invention of Love.