A Woman Walks into a Bank

Details

Moscow, August 2018. The World Cup has just ended, and it has been a roaring success. Free Metro travel. Parties in the square. The police, the ones with guns, they were smiling! People finally saw that yeah, it's okay over here and no, it doesn't snow in the summer, it's actually very warm. And wait, did we mention it was an incident free event? But when an old woman walks into a bank, she is conned into taking out a high interest loan which she immediately forgets all about. A catastrophic series of events are set in motion... with only her cat Sally to bear witness. Inspired by childhood fairytales, Roxy Cook's vibrant debut play uses biting humour to interrogate the social apathy tearing Russia apart. How did we get here? How can we get out?

Cast/Performers

Giulia Innocenti (A / An Old Woman), Sam Newton (B / A Young Man), Keith Dunphy (C / A Debt Collector)

Creatives/Company

Author: Roxy Cook
Presented by: Theatre503
Director(s): Roxy Cook, Sam Hooper (associate director / movement director), Nadine Rennie (CDG - casting)
Design: David Allen
Costume: David Allen
Lighting: Joe Price
Sound: Hugh Sheehan
Music: Hugh Sheehan
Stage Manager(s): Rose Hockaday, Amie Whickman (assistant - on placement)
Other: Misha Mah (production manager)
Producer(s): Ceri Lothian, Humnah Abdullah (assistant)