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.
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), gone, random, handprint 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