Details

Burlesque strip shows, bad dreams, social breakdown, population explosion, worldwide paranoia. A fast and furious metropolitan crash of people, scenes and decades, as three sisters attempt to navigate their dislocated lives and loves, while their dysfunctional father, a brilliant scientist, predicts global catastrophe. Nothing I do means anything certainly and that's depressing. But also, nothing I do is going to be the end of the world. There's a comfort in that. An all-pervasive fear of the future and a guilty pleasure in the excesses of the present drive Mike Bartlett's epic rollercoaster of a play from 1968 to 2525 and back again. It's Cabaret, we've got our heads down and we're dancing and drinking as fast as we can. The enemy is on its way, but this time it doesn't have guns and gas it has storms and earthquakes, fire and brimstone. You were the glimmer. At the end of the tunnel. And you went out. Running time: approx. 3hrs

Cast/Performers

Paul Shelley, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Sean Gleeson, Ben Addis, Sam Archer, Helen Cripps, Kurt Egyiawan, Siubhan Harrison, John Hollingworth, Maggie McCourt, Lucy Phelps, Nicola Sangster, Gyuri Sarossy, Natalie Thomas, Joseph Thompson, Leah Whitaker

Creatives/Company

Author: Mike Bartlett
Company: Headlong Theatre
Director(s): Rupert Goold, Caroline Steinbeis (associate director)
Design(s): Miriam Buether, Lucy Sierra (associate designer), Jon Driscoll (projection)
Costume: Katrina Lindsay
Lighting: Howard Harrison
Sound: Gregory Clarke
Music: Alex Baranowski
Choreographer: Scott Ambler