Cockpit
Writer
Bridget Boland
Director
Philip Wilson
Venue
The Sainsbury Theatre
Dates
Saturday 29 May at 7:30pm
Tuesday 1 June at 7:30pm
(live-streamed)
Wednesday 2 June at 2pm
Wednesday 2 June at 7:30pm
About the show
“Poles, Dutch and Belgians in the Circle, Norwegians and Russians in the gallery. Bulgars and some Italians in the Circle Bar.”
Welcome to the Hoftheater of Deutscheshof. The British have occupied this small town and are now housing all the displaced persons in the theatre. You’ll find the corridors crowded with refugees from the camps, and there are bodies piled up in the boiler room. Best find a spot quick as we’re expecting hundreds more to arrive within the next few days. Keep an eye that your luggage doesn’t get stolen. And for signs of plague. Just stick to the rules and we’ll all get out of this alright.
Bridget Boland was born on 13 March 1913 in St George's Hanover Square, London as Bridget Mary Boland. She was a writer, known for Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), The Prisoner (1955) and Gaslight (1940). She died on 19 January 1988 in Surrey.
Philip Wilson’s theatre credits include: This Island’s Mine (King’s Head), Perfect Nonsense, After the Dance (Theatre By The Lake); A Fox on the Fairway (Queen’s, Hornchurch); The Star, The Norman Conquests, Noises Off, Dr Faustus, The Astonished Heart/Still Life (Liverpool Playhouse); As You Like It (Storyhouse, Chester); Beacons (Park Theatre); his own adaptations of Philip Pullman’s Grimm Tales (Oxo Tower Bargehouse & Shoreditch Town Hall); The Three Lions (St. James Theatre, Edinburgh and UK tour); How Many Miles to Babylon? (Lyric Belfast), Toro! Toro! (national tour); Twist of Gold (Polka); The books of Ruth and 2 Samuel in Sixty-Six Books (Bush Theatre and Westminster Abbey); The Importance of Being Earnest/Travesties (Birmingham Rep);& In Praise Of Love (Minerva, Chichester); The Found Man (Traverse); Un Uomo& Trovato (Teatro della Limonaia, Florence); Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Sheffield Crucible); Breaking The Code (Northampton Theatre Royal). As Artistic Director of Salisbury Playhouse (2007-2011): The Game of Love and Chance, The Constant Wife, The Picture, Private Lives, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Winslow Boy, his own adaptation of JL Carr’s A Month in the Country, What the Butler Saw, People ;At Sea, Alphabetical Order, Corpse! As director and designer: Blackbird, Faith Healer and Toro! Toro! Writing: Dramatic Adventures in Rhetoric, with Giles Taylor (Oberon Books); Grimm Tales (Nick Hern Books).
Contains themes of an adult nature and scenes of a distressing nature.
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Photos: Lidia Crisafulli
Creative Team
Director
Philip Wilson
Assistant Director
Tramaine Reindorf
Set & Costume Designer
Ruari Murchison
Lighting Designer
Oliver Horne
Sound Designer
Chris Drohan
Assistant Sound Designer
Benjamin Laws-Williams
Composer
Annabel Mutale Reed
Fight Director
Tom Jordan
Vocal Coach
Stevie Rickard
Cast
Captain Ridley
Eduardo Ackerman
Claudia
Lottie Amor
The Professor
Evangeline Beaven
Bauer
Brandon Boruch
Duval
Ned Costello
Marie
Clara Courty-Zanca
Milosh
William Darling
Jiri
Sophia Papadopoulos
Sergeant Barnes
Thom Petty
Rebecca
Eleanor Sager
A Woman, Draja
Orla Scally
Anna
Anna Swinton
Jaroslav
Marco Voli
Peter, Captain Saunders
John Paul Wagner
Production Team
Production Manager
Waverley Moran
Stage Manager
Emma Kaas Andersen
Deputy Stage Manager
Sophie O’Neill
Assistant Stage Managers
Rob Brown
Avery Elliot
Wardrobe Supervisor
Chrissy Maddison
Chief Electrician
Amy Hill
Deputy Chief Electrician
Harry Masters
Lighting Programmer
Jahmiko Marshall
Lighting Crew
Megan Bishop
Tara Daynes
Jasmine Fuller
Lucas Harle
Rebecca Harris
Josette Shipp
Steph Siraut
Production Sound Engineer
Nevison Kukosora
Sound Assistants
Michael Fleming
Alyssia Jones
Tom McCreadie
Sam Tate
Production Carpenter
Sam Maslin
Construction Crew
Finn Beirne
Murong Li
Sophia Markou
Ewen Roberts
Tom Smith
Streaming Supervisor
Bella Kear
Streaming Assistant
Hattie North
Photos: Alex Brenner