Wayne Stewart: Chrome Yellow
Friday 14 and Saturday 15 March 2025, 7.30pm
Jersey Arts Centre, Phillips Street, St Helier, Jersey JE2 4SW
Tickets/Booking: Available via artscentre.je at this link
Duration: 70-Minutes (no interval). Contains sporadic strong language and thoughtful discussions of mental health.
ArtHouse Jersey is proud to support Wayne Stewart with this production alongside the team at Jersey Arts Centre, who originally developed this production as part of a residency in 2022. In Chrome Yellow, aspiring nihilist Wayne wrestles with meaning and purpose as he tries to understand exactly why he walked 650 miles across France alone in July 2021, and is left battling with a spiritual awakening that’s imbued him with a peculiar obsession with yellow.
In this personal and philosophical story chronicling his journey from Saint-Malo in Brittany to Argeles-Sur-Mer on the Mediterranean, Wayne delves into themes of existentialism, personal reflection, and the search for purpose. On a quest for new-found freedom while drawing on memories of his past, Wayne attempts to understand what brought him to the point of making the journey in the first place. Peppered by entries from his travel journal with the hope to understand what it all meant, if in fact it meant anything at all.
A Jersey Arts Centre Residency Production, Supported by ArtHouse Jersey
Wayne Stewart is a Jersey-born and based writer, director, performer, and teacher, with a background in stand-up comedy, theatre, and interdisciplinary performance. His work fuses storytelling, movement, comedy, and song to create humorous yet thought-provoking experiences that explore identity, human connection, and the search for meaning. Beginning his journey in theatre at Jersey Arts Centre’s YouTheatre, he later honed his craft in stand-up before expanding into a broader theatrical vocabulary, embracing character work, movement, and music. Over the past decade, he has written, directed, and performed original solo works, including Chrome Yellow and Indigo Moon, which blend absurdist humor with moments of poignancy.
