debbie tucker green's

hang

Writer
debbie tucker green

Director
Robert Awosusi

Location
The Linbury Theatre

Dates
Friday 15 October at 7:30pm
Saturday 16 October at 2pm
Monday 18 October at 7:30pm
Tuesday 19 October at 2pm

About the show

A woman is the victim of a devastating crime. 

In the aftermath, given the power to decide the fate of her perpetrator, she now holds his life in her hands.

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debbie tucker green is a playwright, screenwriter and director.

Her plays include: a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun) (Royal Court Theatre, 2017); hang (Royal Court, 2015); nut (National Theatre, 2013); truth and reconciliation (Royal Court, 2011);random (Royal Court, 2008); generations (Young Vic, 2007); stoning mary (Royal Court, 2005); trade (RSC, 2005); born bad (Hampstead Theatre, 2003; Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer); and dirty butterfly (Soho Theatre, 2003).

She wrote and directed the feature film, Second Coming (BFI/Film 4, 2014; International Film Festival Rotterdam Big Screen Award) and adapted her play random into a TV film for Channel 4, which won the 2012 BAFTA for Best Single Drama and the Black International Film/MVSA Award for Best UK Film.

Her work for radio includes: lament (Radio Academy Arias Gold Award), gonerandomhandprint and freefall.

She was awarded the 2015 Windham Campbell Prize for Drama.

Robert is a director / writer / dramaturg / theatremaker based in London.

Work includes: JASMINE. HOME. MOTHER (Young Vic), Bullring Techno Makeout Jamz (The Bunker); Our Tower (The Arcola); The Derek Smith Show (Mountview); phroot sahlad (Tour); The Lost (Young Vic).

Associate director: Radio Elusia Podcast (Boundless), WE KNOW NOT WHAT WE MAY BE [Artistic Associate](Barbican).

Assistant director: Constellations (Donmar/ Vaudeville), "Daddy" - A Melodrama (Almeida), Fairview (Young Vic), Let Kilburn Shake (Kiln), The Trial (Young Vic).

Other work: Made at Home: A Virtual Scratch (Tamasha), Coronaville Delivery Service.

Contains scenes of a distressing nature and explicit descriptions of hanging and capital punishment

Creative Team

Director
Robert Awosusi

Designer
Lizzy Leech

Lighting Designer
Calum Priestley

Sound Designer
Avery Elliot

Cast

One
Ellie McKay

Two
Romeo Mika

Three
Olumide Olorunfemi

Production Team

Production Manager
Tom McCreadie

Stage Manager
Tara Daynes

Deputy Stage Manager
Jas Fuller

Chief LX
Stephanie Siraut

Lighting Programmer
Lucas Harle

Production Carpenter
Claudia Penna Rojas

Production Sound Engineer
Ewen Roberts

Costume Supervisor
Olivia Weltz