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Written by Alice Birch
Directed by Sonnie Beckett
The Carne Studio Theatre
Monday 9 - Tuesday 17 June 2025
This is an amateur production.
Content warnings: Contains flashing lights; use of strobe; use of incense; theatrical haze; smoking; drinking; blood; strong offensive language; sexual themes; graphic imagery; drug use; use of theatrical weapons; portrayal of domestic violence, sexual assault, non consent; discussion of hanging; discussion of grief, addiction, incarceration, child abuse, mental health struggles, self harm, suicide, death, murder (including killing of children).
Creative Team
Director
Designer
Producer
Assistant Producer
Assistant Director
Sound Designer
Lighting Designer/Green Book Captain
Costume Supervisor
Voice Director
Movement & Intimacy Director
Fight Director
Sonnie Beckett*
Finlay Jenner*
Rebecca Lyle*
Bobby Harding*
Haonan Wang
Megan Parker
Patrick McAneny
Hannah Danson*
Jeremy Finch*
Mandy Gordon*
Joseph Reed*
Production Team
Stage Manager on Book
Assistant Stage Manager
Production Manager/Green Book Captain
Production Lx PSE
Production Carpenter
Deputy
Production Carpenter
Construction Crew
Olivia Wolfenden*
Paige Fernandez
Alexander Hoppe
Abigail Brophy
Holly Higgs
Peter Johnston
Ace Turner
Phoebe Bennett
Simon Calahan
Tilly Cox
Torrin Gieler
Amelia Hill
Arthur Moore
Indianah Raymond
Aryan Sherifi
Lighting Technicians
Sound Operators
Bastie Colclough
Abigail Quelch
Inaaya Abdullah
Poppy Stewart
Jackson Walsh
*LAMDA staff member or visiting artist
Jessica Eden Anderson
Tamika Bennett
Mostyn Crawford
Jamar Morgan
Muireann Ní Fhaogáin
Gloria Olajide
Lily Olufemi-Bywaters
Rita Silva
Maggie Zhang
About the writer, Alice Birch: Alice is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter whose recent plays include The House of Bernarda Alba (National Theatre); [BLANK] (Donmar Warehouse / Clean Break); Orlando (Schaubühne, Berlin) and Anatomy of a Suicide (Royal Court Theatre).
Alice wrote the critically acclaimed original series Dead Ringers, inspired by the Cronenberg film of 1988, for Annapurna and Amazon. She was the lead writer and an executive producer and the series starred Rachel Weisz. Previously Alice wrote on the TV adaptation of Normal People, alongside Sally Rooney and Mark O’Rowe, for which she and Sally were nominated for an Emmy. She also wrote on the TV adaptation of Conversations with Friends and she worked as Story Editor on Season 2 of Succession for HBO.
Her first feature was Lady Macbeth which won 5 British Independent Film Awards in 2017 including Best Screenplay. Her second feature was an adaptation of the Graham Swift novel Mothering Sunday for Number 9 Films and Film 4. She co-wrote The Wonder with Sebastián Lelio and Emma Donoghue, and most recently she wrote an adaptation of The End We Start From which was directed by Mahalia Belo and starred Jodie Comer.
Other Awards include: Winner Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2018, George Devine Award (for Revolt. She said. Revolt again); Arts Foundation Award for Playwriting.
*LAMDA staff member or visiting artist
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