Dates March-April 2009 Performances 17 Audience 400+ Set Designer Nicola Dobrowolski Lighting Designer Benet Catty Sound Designer Simon Perkin	Company Grassy Knoll Cast Kieran Gough Johnny Vivash

For the first time since its multi award-winning premiere a decade ago, HOWIE THE ROOKIE returned to London.

In a radical new staging, Mark O'Rowe's acclaimed double monologue met with universal critical acclaim and played to packed houses, nightly cheers and even a standingovation.

A scabies-infested mattress burns in the backfields.
Two prized Siamese fighting fish are dead.
This is going to be a very bad day for Howie Lee and The Rookie.

This visceral urban thriller about loyalty, honour and fate combines gritty suburban realism with blistering Dublin vernacular. Brilliantly written, frenetically-paced and spectacularly staged, HOWIE THE ROOKIE was a total blast.


Across its reviews this production of HOWIE was praised for the actors, the direction, choreography, design, lighting, sound, even atmosphere. For its final nights there was a queue for returns, a rare sight in a fringe theatre.

Hopefully HOWIE won't be gone for too long.