Performance

VenueOxford Playhouse
TownOxford
CountyOxfordshire
From1st November 2011
To5th November 2011
WhenTue-Thu/Sat 19:30. Fri 20:00. Thu, Sat Mats 14:30
PricesFrom £11.50. To £24.50.
What is currently on at Oxford Playhouse (V803)

Earthquakes in London

T2028472243
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.
Author Mike Bartlett


Archive :: production:T2028472243, play:S02014045781, venue:V803
Current production:Work

Production details

Running time: approx. 3hrs

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N White (06Oct11): Absolutely brilliant! The best play this year at Malvern.

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Company

Company Headlong Theatre
Director Rupert Goold
Director Caroline Steinbeis (associate director)
Design Miriam Buether
Design Lucy Sierra (associate designer)
Costume Katrina Lindsay
Lighting Howard Harrison
Sound Gregory Clarke
Music Alex Baranowski
Choreographer Scott Ambler
Design Jon Driscoll (projection)
Performer Paul Shelley
Performer Tracy-Ann Oberman
Performer Sean Gleeson
Performer Ben Addis
Performer Sam Archer
Performer Helen Cripps
Performer Kurt Egyiawan
Performer Siubhan Harrison
Performer John Hollingworth
Performer Maggie McCourt
Performer Lucy Phelps
Performer Nicola Sangster
Performer Gyuri Sarossy
Performer Natalie Thomas
Performer Joseph Thompson
Performer Leah Whitaker
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