Details

Stockport, 1988. It's midnight. Rachel, eleven, and Billy, six, wait in the car in agitated excitement. Their mother is at her wits' end with all their chatter and fighting and dreams of Disneyland. She is about to leave them for good. Their father, drunk in the flat above, has locked the door. It's a pivotal moment, the beginning of a thirteen-year odyssey for two kids, largely abandoned and growing up in the deprived suburban shadows of Manchester, a city that felt itself to be the most exciting in the world. Running time: 2hrs 20mins

Cast/Performers

John Biggins (Ronald Abbey / Jake Moran), Calum Callaghan (Danny Miller), Jack Deam (Jonathan Keats / Kevin Brake), Danny Kelly (Chris Bennett), Mike Noble (Billy Keats), Kate O'Flynn (Racheal Keats), Katherine Pearce (Lucy Moore), Liz White (Christine Keats / Anne Dickinson), John Banks, Aaron Foy, Ellie Jacob, Mark Rose

Creatives/Company

Author: Simon Stephens
Producer: National Theatre
Director(s): Marianne Elliott, Scott Graham (movement), Kate Waters (fight)
Design: Lizzie Clachan
Lighting(s): Neil Austin, Rob Halliday (associate lighting designer)
Sound(s): Ian Dickinson, Ian Dickinson