Saint George and the Dragon

Jac Ifan Moore is an award-winning director working across theatre, opera & television. An alumni of the JMK Regional Assistant Director’s scheme and the National Theatre Studio Director’s Course. Jac is a founding member of PowderHouse, company in residence at Sherman Theatre.

Past work with LAMDA includes Scandaltown by Mike Bartlett (2023). 

Recent Work includes: Unclean Beasts by Conor Mitchell & Jac Ifan Moore (Music Theatre Wales) Tachwedd or The Slaughter by Jon Berry (Theatre503) The Corn Is Green (as Associate Director for National Theatre) Apollo E Dafne (as Assistant Director for Royal Opera House) Antigone (PowderHouse, National Theatre Wales, Sherman Theatre & BBC) For All I Care (National Theatre Wales) Fel Anifail (Sherman Theatre) Now The Hero (as Associate Director for 14-18 NOW). 

Jac is a visiting director at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama where he has directed several productions including Blithe Spirit (2024), Mad Margo (2023), Philip Pullman's Grimm Tales (2021). 

Rory Mullarkey graduated in 2009 from Cambridge, after which he studied at the State Theatrical Arts Academy of St. Petersburg. A translator of Russian Drama, Mullarkey's translations have been produced by the ADC Theatre, The Royal Court and the Free Theatre of Belarus. Plays include Single Sex (Royal Exchange); Remembrance Day (Royal Court), Tourism (Headlong) and Come To Where I'm From (Paines Plough). 

Mullarkey spent 2010 as Writer-on-Attachment at the Royal Court Theatre, London, and 2011 as the Pearson Writer in Residence at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. His The Grandfathers was programmed as part of the National Theatre's 2012 Connections: Plays for Young People. In 2014, Rory Mullarkey won the Harold Pinter Playwriting Prize, the George Devine Award (jointly with Alice Birch) and the James Tait Black Prize for Drama for his play Cannibals, published by Methuen Drama.

Contains harassment and bullying, assault, grievous bodily harm, alcohol abuse and drunkenness, excessive or gratuitous violence, gruesome deaths and injuries, multiple jump-scare moments, haze, murder and references to murder, parental death, reference to self-harm, explicit language and torture. Multiple references to use of blood.

First performed at the Olivier Theatre at the National Theatre, London on 11 October 2017.