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Kiss Marry Kill

Kiss Marry Kill: Two men hold each other whilst reclining on a prison bed
Kiss Marry Kill production shot with  Dauda Ladejobi and Graham Mackay Bruce
Kiss Marry Kill production shot with Lady Lykez
Kiss Marry Kill production shot of set design
Kiss Marry Kill ensemble production shot
Kiss Marry Kill ensemble production shot
Kiss Marry Kill production shot with Dean Statham
Kiss Marry Kill production shot with Dauda Ladejobi
“The cast is excellent”
“Deeply Moving”
“”Thought-provoking… A must see””
Queer Guru
“it’s grippingly, grittily different from your everyday West End fare”
The Telegraph
“Spoken-word music by Lady Lykez is the current that charges the company’s skilled use of this former chapel’s vaulting dimensions to immerse us into the unforgiving environment of life in prison”
“Kiss Marry Kill is complicated. This is a love story, but one that is challenging, uncomfortable at times, dangerous even.”
Peter Ruddick, Theatre Reviews North

*****
'Deeply moving'
- Everything Theatre

'it’s grippingly, grittily different from your everyday West End fare' - The Telegraph

'an immersive and compelling look at homophobia and love behind bars' - The Stage

Black British Theatre Awards

WINNER: Lady Lykez - Best Book & Lyrics

Nominated: Frank Skully - Best Supporting Male Actor in a Play

Off-West End Award Nominations:

Lead Performance in a play - Dauda Ladejobi
Lead Performance in a play - Graham Mackay-Bruce
Set Design - Sophie Neil
Lighting Design - Joshua Gadsby
Director - Daphna Attias & Terry O'Donovan

Kiss Marry Kill toured the UK from March to May 2024. The limited edition programme playtext if available to buy from Methuen-Bloomsbury.

Jay and Paul are both serving life sentences for homophobic murders. Incredibly, they fall in love and seek permission to marry. Inspired by real-life events, Kiss Marry Kill is a provocative new play that reimagines the first same-sex wedding in a UK prison.

Take a seat and prepare for the action to take place in front, above and around you - in signature Dante or Die style. With live music from rapper Lady Lykez, the production envelops audiences in the private spaces and conversations of a world rarely seen. 

Kiss Marry Kill zeroes in on the limits of our compassion, challenging our assumptions and preconceptions around sexuality, and the criminal justice system


Read the Director's Note

Kiss Marry Kill is commissioned by The Lowry, South Street Arts and Ideas Test, funded by Arts Council England, Cockayne Foundation, PRS Foundation, International Music and Art Foundation, and the Ian Mckellen, Sean Mathias and ATG Productions Producer Fund. In addition the project is supported by Norwich Theatre Royal and Stone Nest. The project was seed funded by IGNITE - York Theatre Royal, with thanks to the National Theatre.

PRS Foundation John Ellerman Foundation Garfield Weston Cockayne IMAFCommunity Fund Arts Council England