Falling Falling Falling Falling
Writer
Simon Longman
Director
Audrey Sheffield
Location
The Carne Studio
Dates
Saturday 8 February at 7pm
Monday 10 February at 2pm
Tuesday 11 February at 7pm
Wednesday 12 February at 2pm*
Thursday 13 February at 7pm
*This will be a relaxed performance. Find out more.
The running time is approximately 1 hour 30 minutes (no interval).
About the show
This is a play about communication. And loneliness. And the world. The utter, horrible chaos of the world. And your place within that. Your place in all of that. You and the world. This collapsing world. What's your place in that? You think about that as you have a drink with someone you've never met before. That'll anchor you to something, you think. Something. Anything. Just concentrate on another pair of eyes, if you can. Everything is falling apart around you. But just concentrate on the eyes. That's all you can do, right?
Audrey Sheffield Audrey is an award-winning UK and international freelance director, specialising in new writing, and committed to making work that is rigorous, imaginatively ambitious, and emotionally truthful. She is a recipient of an MGCfutures bursary 2020, was selected as an Old Vic 12 Director 2019, nominated for the Arts Foundation Award 2018 and Finalist Best Director for the Off-West End Awards 2017/2018 (The Dark Room, Theatre503).
As director, theatre includes: Stranger Things: The First Shadow - Associate Director (West End); Jews. In Their Own Words (Royal Court); Neighbourhood Voices, Tapestry (Young Vic); Perspective (National Theatre); The Dybbuk (Almeida); We Too Are Giants (Kiln); Sleepwalking (Hampstead); The Effect, Apologia (English Theatre Frankfurt); Skin and Blister (Old Vic 12); The Dark Room (Theatre503); The Scar Test (Arcola); Almost Near (Finborough); Little Flower of East Orange (National Theatre Studio).
As associate / assistant director, theatre includes: Pinter at the Pinter, Don Quixote, Don Juan in Soho, Dead Funny, Hand to God, One Man, Two Guvnors (West End); Electra (Old Vic); Rapture, Blister, Burn (Hampstead); Troilus and Cressida (with The Wooster Group), Antony and Cleopatra (RSC); The Effect (National Theatre); Blurred Lines (National Theatre Studio).
Audrey has extensive experience working with communities and young people, with actors in training at drama schools, and has also recently enjoyed diversifying to work as a Voice and Performance Director on numerous acclaimed Video Games. For more information and images of work, please see www.audreysheffield.co.uk
Simon Longman is a playwright from the West Midlands. He is the recipient of the 49th George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright and has previously won the Channel 4 Playwrights’ Scheme.
His work has been translated and produced internationally.He is an Associate Artist at Kestrel Theatre Company, working in prisons around the UK.He also teaches creative writing at Bath Spa University.
Contains references to abortion, animal death, use of drugs, disordered eating behaviour, gruesome death and injury, parental death, suicide and multiple uses of explicit language. References to blood. This performance contains the use of haze.
First commissioned and performed by Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Booking
Once you have booked a ticket, you will receive an email confirmation. Read up on our latest audience guidelines here.
Members of the industry: secure your complimentary seat by emailing the Box Office on [email protected]
Pricing and concessions
Tickets cost £14, but we have £7 concessions tickets available to Hammersmith & Fulham residents, schools, students, or people who are over 65, under 18 or are on Job Seeker's Allowance. You'll just need to provide proof of your eligibility when you collect your tickets at the Box Office. We offer a complimentary ticket for carers, to book please call the box office on 020 8834 0500. If you belong to our Pathways Programme or work with any of our Pathways Partners you are entitled to complimentary tickets. Please contact the box office to book.
Accessibility
If you have any additional requirements, you would like us to be aware of, please contact box office on 020 8834 0500.
Booking your tickets
Book your tickets online or by calling our box office on 020 8834 0500.
Industry booking
If you're a member of the industry, please email [email protected] to book your tickets.
Ticket collection for in-person tickets
There is no need to collect tickets. You will be ticked off an attendance list on arrival.
Refunds
Unfortunately, all tickets are non-refundable.
Creative Team
* LAMDA staff member or visiting artist
Director
Audrey Sheffield*
Designer
Niall McKeever*
Producer
Rebecca Lyle*
Assistant Producer
Bobby Harding*
Costume Designer
Hannah Danson*
Wardrobe Assistant
Hana Underwood*
Voice Director
Becca Barrett*
Movement Director
Adi Gortler*
Video Projection Designer
Will Monks*
Assistant Director
Hope Wishart
Lighting Designer / Prod Lx
Holly Higgs
Sound Designer / PSE
Ace Turner
Cast
E
Emily Hayman
D
Kofi Odoom
A
Sadhbha Odufuwa-Bolger
F
Nigel Sudarkasa
C
Emily Tidey
B
James Walsh
H
Caleb Mercer
G
Maggie Zhang
Production Team
* LAMDA staff member or visiting artist
Stage Manager on the Book
Danielle Small
Assistant Stage Manager
Nicola Usher
Production Manager
Callum Duncan