Details

1933: the height of the Great Depression and a savage contest is about to kick off. This is a Dance Marathon, an endurance test in which couples must dance perpetually, until one by one they succumb to exhaustion and madness, in a spectacle of cruelty rigged to keep audience members hooked and spending money.

Cast/Performers

Mark Jonathan, Faith Alabi (Flo / Audience), Max Befort (Ruddy), Alexander Bhat (Legionnaire / Rita's partner / Mr Forbes / Minister / Audience), Rosemary Boyle (Sugar-Hips / Audience), Robbie Carpenter (Lusty / Audience), Paige Carter (Rae), Ceri-lyn Cissone (Pearl / Audience), Rebecca Collingwood (Robin / Angel / Melba Marvel / Audience), Theo Cowan (Abe), Joe Eyre (Roustabout / Mr James), Andre Flynn (Al / Audience), Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (Beezer), Adam Gerrett (Bozo), Simon Haines (Dankle), Ben Hall (Scotty), Kaffe Keating (Pete / Mittens / Melba?s escort), Emily Laing (June / Jean), Tanya Lattul (Helen), Joey Phillips (Patsy), Kate Phillips (Evie), Fran Regis (Rita / Pinkie / Blowsy Woman / Audience), Jordan Renzo (Schnozza), Florence Roberts (The Mick), Jay Saighal (Mr Burke / Cop / Audience), Dominic Spillane (Banty / Joe / Hinky / Audience), Benjamin Wainwright (Beefy / Mr Beckett-Jones / Roustabout)

Creatives/Company

Author: June Havoc
Producer: The Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Music: Ehud Freedman
Director: Rachel Grunwald
Design: Nicky Shaw
Choreographer: Emma Annetts
Sound: Mikko Gordon