CREATIVE TEAM

 

Designer Grace Farrow-Moore
Lighting Designer Caitlin MacGregor
Sound Designer Hattie North
Composer Savva Rozanov
Movement Pete Losasso
Voice and Dialect Support Emma Woodvine
Singing Support Mark Oldfield
Fight Support Philip d’Orleans
Captioner Jenny Skene

CAST

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WPC Lyuda Becky Bush
Waitress in Café / Swimming Pool Official /
Waitress in Japanese restaurant Claira Gayer
Dolzhansky - 1st Criminal /
Zakirov - 2nd Criminal /
Verhushkin - 3rd Criminal Alfie Lockwood
Father / Police Inspector 1 / Police Inspector 2 James Pedley-Holden
Valya Oliver Ridgway
Mother / Police Sergeant Natalie Vaughan

Play by the Presnykov Brothers

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"I'm not stupid. I understood a long time ago that in order to avoid doing something, you have to do something else. If you want to avoid something nasty, you have to do something you don't like either, but it helps you avoid something worse."

 

A young man drops out of University and goes to the Police. He's done nothing wrong, he just wants a job. A particular job. Playing the victim in murder reconstructions. Maybe by getting close to death he can manage to cheat his own. 

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The Presnyakov Brothers were born in Sverdlovsk,

Siberia. Oleg in 1969, and Vladimir in 1974. Both

graduated from the Gorky Urals State University

in Yekaterinburg where they later became faculty

members (Oleg in literary theory and philosophy,

and Vladimir in sociology and political science).

They founded The Gorky Urals State University

Youth Theatre and became renowned for producing

experimental theatre.Through the Royal Court and

the British Council’s New Writing Project in Russia,

their play Terrorism, translated by Sasha Dugdale,

was brought to the UK (Royal Court) in 2003. It was

both a critical and a popular success. Playing the

Victim premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festigal

in 2003 in a joint production by the Royal Court

Theatre and Told By An Idiot.