CUT

18 August 2014

(6 x 45)
TX: Autumn

Written by a former of star of Channel 4’s new talent strand Coming Up, CUT is a highly original and inventive 6-part workplace comedy drama for Channel 4 that is both a deft portrait of a generation struggling with the realities of 21st century work life and a warm exploration of the camaraderie and friendships that can bloom in times of difficulty.

 Zawe Ashton stars as the mercurial Katherine, early 30s and in a near-permanent state of frustration. Turned down for an attractive redundancy package, recently divorced and troubled by secrets in her past, her relocation from London to Northampton to join the Immigration Pathway department may just be the last straw for her.

 Things are made even more difficult for Katherine when she realises she’ll be working with Anthony, played by Tom Weston Jones. Late 20s, and cited in Katherine’s divorce papers, their relationship is complicated to say the least… Sacha Dhawan plays the perma-wasted Danny, late 20s, a chancer who has somehow found himself managing the Immigration Pathway office after he pretended to be a devout Muslim. Struggling to work around his fondness for drink and drugs, he’s constantly led astray by his feisty PA, Angela, played Jo Hartley, a terrible influence… Sophie Rundle plays Jenny, mid 20s, irrepressibly and irritatingly upbeat. Jenny is a ball of energy with a relentlessly sunny disposition that hides a profound vulnerability. Meanwhile Nathanial, played by Samuel Barnett, mid 20s, is naïve and well meaning, trying his best to do his job, but never quite certain what his job actually involves. Anastasia Hille joins the cast as a shell-shocked Jeffries, 40s, head of Human Resources and responsible for Katherine and Danny’s relocation. She’s as surprised as everyone else to find herself on the receiving end of her own wave of cuts. Behind her stoical and affable nature, and with her own problems at home, she’s as lost as everyone else.

Full of black humour, razor sharp dialogue and intricately drawn relationships, CUT is a timely comedy drama that is laced with an acerbically surreal sensibility which cuts straight to the quick of a lost generation.

Prod Co: Clerkenwell Films