Our new play currently touring this Autumn is ZERO, a co-production with Warwick Arts Centre, written by Chris O'Connell, and directed by Matt Aston (director and producer from Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham).
ZERO is chaotic, fast, and furious. The play takes an explosive and anarchic stare at the ethics of torture, and the curse of censorship.
Set twenty years from now, in the face of unabated nihilism, hundreds of torture camps have been created to extract information - at any cost - from those who aim to blow apart a world that is wealthy beyond its dreams.
Alex, a translator at Camp Zero, wants to tell the world of the brutal regime within the walls of the camp, but as a consequence his life is suddenly in danger. Survival is of course paramount, death may be inevitable, but the truth has to be told.
"They’re outside. They’re waiting for me to open the door.
You should see them, devils in their shadows.
Even if you write down what I tell you and you get the world to read the book,
I don’t think they’ll be bothered.
They’re not frightened of the truth.
What hope have we got?"
Cast and Creative Team as follows:
Major played by Adeel Akhtar
Tom played by Daniel Hoffmann-Gill
Alex played by Stephen Hudson
Demissie played by Damian Lynch
Syrah played by Kate Ambler
Writer - Chris O'Connell
Director - Matt Aston
Design - Laura McEwen
Lighting Design - James Farncombe
Soundscape - Andy Garbi
CSM - Jo James
Technician - Natalie Davies
Producer - Julia Negus
November tour dates below - please come along, check us out and if you like what you see, please tell some friends.
4th Nov Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton - SOLD OUT
7.30pm
6th – 8th Nov Citizens Theatre, Glasgow - www.citz.co.uk
7.30pm Box Office 0141 429 0022
11th – 29th Nov Tristan Bates Theatre,
7.30pm (The Actors Centre), 1 a Tower Street, London WC2H
Box Office 020 7240 6283 (2 - 6 pm)
www.tristanbatestheatre.co.uk
Post show with Chris O'Connell 14th November
